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Hu Kitchen CEO Rita Hudetz shares her failures and lessons learned as she grows Hu Products.
Why Back to the Roots Inked a Historic Partnership with Nature's Path to Bring Organic Cereals to Every School in America (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=26d0b01fdf&e=2715c96b29)
Back to the Roots co-founders Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora explain why they entered a licensing deal with Nature's Path and how they plan to scale their organic cereal line to schools nationwide.
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Applestone Meat Co wants its 24/7 automated dispensers to become as ubiquitous as ATMs. The company is currently operating four vending machines in Ulster County, New York and plans to expand into Hudson and Manhattan.
The Only People More Obsessed with Sparkling Water than Millennials Are Venture Capitalists (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=3be854ce31&e=2715c96b29) - Quartz
Venture capitalists have invested $152m in seltzer in 2018, more than in 2016 and 2017 combined.
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Hodo is expanding its factory and coming to all Whole Foods stores this month.
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Nomad has been buying and freshening up European frozen food brands just as the category is taking off.
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Fight with Peatos, made from peas and lentils, is fresh example of tension between big food makers and upstart brands.
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Some 36k brands occupy the middle of the market and are struggling to remain relevant. To maintain or ascend leadership, companies must meet evolving consumer needs for taste, price, wellness, environmental sustainability and consumer engagement.
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The media mogul has announced a line of frozen pizzas with crusts that are one-third cauliflower called O, That's Good!
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Boxed has raised $110m from Aeon Group, one of the largest retail chains in Japan, alongside Alpha Square Group and CDIB.
Denmark: Simple Feast Raises $12M from Balderton and 14W to Expand Its Weekly Meat-Free Meal-Box Deliveries (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=c642ffb7af&e=2715c96b29) - TechCrunch
Existing investors Sweet Capital and ByFounders also participated in the round.
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Kroger announced today it will phase out single-use plastic bags in its 2.8k stores by 2025 and offer only reusable bags.
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The two patents included a temperature-controlled delivery truck and docking station with removable lockers.
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The program, called the Chipotle Aluminaries Project, will be focused on alternative farming, agriculture technology, food waste and plant-based alternatives.
Minneapolis-Based Office Catering Company Foodsby Raises Over $13M (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=47db576933&e=2715c96b29) - Crunchbase
The Series B round was led by five undisclosed investors. Prior investors included Greycroft, Corazon Capital, Rally Ventures and Come Up Capital.
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The 3m square-foot shopping and entertainment complex is set to open in the Meadowlands, New Jersey, in the spring of 2019. It will feature space for 18 vendors, as well as a staging area where a team can shoot videos and chefs can do demos.
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The vegan Next Level Burger is opening in San Francisco, the start of a rapid expansion plan around the country.
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The restaurants have pledged to end a practice that prohibited workers from switching jobs within the individual chains.
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The Good Food Institute will sit alongside more traditional startups, as the famous accelerator tries to find ways to reduce our animal consumption.
How Congress Killed Efforts to Slash Subsidies for Wealthy Farmers (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=1d9c7d8427&e=2715c96b29) - Politico
A dispute over food stamps unintentionally united House and Senate leadership to fight off subsidy changes.
Schumer Calls on Feds to Speed Study of Herbicide in Foods (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=cca13019d6&e=2715c96b29) - San Francisco Chronicle
The government has been studying the presence of a probable cancer-causing herbicide in foods such as granola bars and oatmeal for two years but hasn't released its findings.
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The Economic Research Service has undercut Trump's claims about food stamps, farming and the environment. Now, it's about to get booted from Capitol Hill.
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The Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration is bad news for farms and factories in the food and agriculture sectors, which heavily rely on undocumented workers.
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Eastern Shore crab houses are suffering this summer because they didn't get the visas needed to hire enough pickers from Mexico.
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Honeybees are under siege, straining the business of farming. Now growers are turning to other bee species to help their crops.
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African swine fever is spreading across northeastern China, infecting hundreds of animals and threatening the world's largest pig industry. There is no vaccine.
West Texas Vineyards Blasted by Herbicide Drift from Nearby Cotton Fields (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=d0394ea1a3&e=2715c96b29) - NPR
Texas is one of the largest producers of wine in the U.S. But the grapevines in the High Plains are facing herbicide drift from cotton fields that's causing them to twist and wither.
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Red salmon, a summertime pleasure that feeds residents through the winter, has failed to show up this season in most rivers.
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A sci-fi look at the next two decades of food developments, from robot farmers to 3D-printed meals to government monitoring of your daily calorie intake.
IBM Has Invented Coffee Drones – and They Predict When You Need a Cup (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=d47799b901&e=2715c96b29) - USA Today
IBM has secured a patent for a coffee drone that not only flies around public spaces to deliver cups of brew but also predicts which people need caffeine pick-me-ups.
Japan: Hitachi to Launch AI Analysis of Hospital Leftovers to Hasten Inpatient Recovery (https://foodtechconnect.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5137626c88ab3a61c40112a42&id=b0746a08d7&e=2715c96b29) - Japan Times
The technology will analyze the leftovers of carefully planned hospital meals to ensure patients get the nutrients needed to better facilitate recovery.
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LA Kitchen teaches culinary skills to those whose memories of eating 'on the inside' remain fresh.
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