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Optimized Foods harnesses the form, function, and structure of mycelium to grow better, healthier foods. Using their technology platform, they are creating compelling products starting with shelf-stable boba tea and cell-cultured caviar.
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.10.2025 | 🎥 Collaborate or die: Hacking the next generation of healthy foods at MISTA | Is fiber finally getting its day in the sun? Is RFK Jr’s anti-seed oil crusade filtering through to consumers? And have we reached peak protein?
We may see a falloff in the “faddish worship of protein,” predicted Mintel director, food &... |
| 26.11.2024 | 🎥Biomass fermentation in focus at MISTA growth hack: ‘The food of the future is going to be manufactured in a tank’ | Biomass fermentation—which is used to produce everything from mycoprotein to DHA-packed animal feed supplements—is generally cheaper than precision fermentation because firms are harvesting the whole biomass, and skipping costly downstream ... |
| 21.08.2024 | Hear How Society is Reaching “Tipping Point” and Eating Less Meat is Becoming Normalised at This Event | Attendees at this year’s New Food Conference will hear how “a societal tipping point” is approaching, as eating less meat becomes normalised.
Among the key speakers is Professor Armando Perez-Cueto of Umeå University in Sweden which last mo... |
| 21.08.2024 | Optimized Foods Leverages Mycelium Technology to Advance Cultivated Caviar and Plant-Based Fats | California-based Optimized Foods, a food technology company specializing in mycelium-based products, is leveraging its proprietary MycoCarrier™ platform to create sustainable and nutritious alternatives to conventionally animal-based foods.... |
| 17.06.2024 | 5 Startups Transforming the Landscape of Food Production | The alternative protein industry is teeming with innovation, and the latest group of startups from ProVeg Incubator demonstrates the remarkable developments that are ahead.
This year, five promising food-tech companies working on breakthrou... |
| 06.06.2024 | 12th ProVeg Incubator Cohort Features Mycelium Tech, Next Gen Pet Food, and Cultivated Sea Bass | Berlin-based ProVeg Incubator today reveals the five impact-driven startups that have been selected for the 12th cohort of its accelerator programme, designed for alt-protein startups driving food system transformation.
This year’s programm... |
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