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Merit receives $30M investment from Bunge for pea & canola protein production
Partners with Bunge to Bring Pea and Canola Protein to Market Vancouver-based Burcon NutraScience Corporation is pleased to announce that its joint venture company, Merit Functional Foods has received a $30 million investment from a new equity partner, Bunge Limited,…
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Bond Pet Foods Develops The World’s First Animal-Free Chicken Protein
Bond Pet Foods has created the world’s first animal-free, cultured chicken meat protein for pet food applications. The prototype is a big step on its way to scale-up and commercial production. Using a proprietary production process that is more humane…
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Food Processing Centre for Animal Proteins officially opens at Assiniboine
BRANDON, Man. – Assiniboine Community College’s new Food Processing Centre for Animal Proteins had its grand opening on January 22, welcoming donors who contributed to helping make the facility a reality. The Centre allows the college to facilitate the training and experience…
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Protein supercluster invests in pea and canola processing
Protein Industries Canada announced its second co-investment into a consortium-led project. The $19.1 million project will work to commercialize high-quality plant-based proteins, focusing on proprietary pea protein and canola protein isolates, including introducing the world’s first highly soluble, highly functional…
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Roquette adds new plant-based proteins
Roquette is launching two new plant-based textured proteins to an existing range of two textured pea proteins. One of the new proteins is made from peas and the other is from fava beans. Visitors at Food Ingredients Europe will be…
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Merit Functional Foods to be the only food-grade canola proteins producer in the world
Newly launched Merit Functional Foods is seeking to uproot the food and beverage industry’s perception of plant-based proteins, producing plant protein ingredients that exceed standards for purity, solubility, taste, and more. While plant-based protein’s usage has continued to grow over…
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Plant-based protein in demand
Food producers have remained innovative, but plant proteins come with challenges
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Beyond Meat’s plant-based burger now available at Canadian grocery stores
Beyond Meat announced today that for the first time, its plant-based Beyond Burger will be available in the meat case at Canadian retail outlets nationwide at Co-op Food Stores, Fresh Street Market, IGA, Loblaw, Longos, Metro, Save On Foods, Sobeys,…
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CoolWay Ice Cream
CoolWay, formerly CoolWhey, launched seven flavours of low-calorie, guilt-free ice cream at more than 1,600 retail locations across Canada. The company says each scoop of CoolWay has the same taste as regular ice cream but with less sugar and more…
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The meat-alternative sector offers manufacturers opportunities
New research from Mintel has found that more than half of Canadians are consuming meat alternatives but Canada isn’t keeping up with meat-alternative innovation
