Food Industry

I can hardly keep up with what’s happening with plant-based and cultured-meat products.  Here’s my latest collection from various newsletters and other sources.  Take a look at the ones that interest you.  This is a quick way to get a broad picture of where t…

It always feels a little weird when brands try to get relatable to the millennials in 2019. Whether it be engaging in memes and banter on social media or redesigning their logos to look like the latest iOS update, there’s just something sort of sad and tryhar…

Benson Hill Biosystems adds food industry expert to C-suite

PepsiCo(NASDAQ:PEP) has been a reliable dividend stock for decades. The company has raised its annual dividend for 47 consecutive years and currently pays a yield of about 3%. On top of that, Pepsi's stock has also outpaced the market over the past year, risi…

Natalie Rubio pushes through the glass revolving doors of Tufts Science and Technology Center. Her feet take her on autopilot through the atrium and up a flight of stairs to the culture lab to check on her current project: T175 cell culture flasks of insect m…

Another major contributor to single-use plastic waste is the excess wrapping and packaging used for small volume or single-use items, like a plastic bag of rice or an individual yogurt cup. This is where bulk aisles and stores come in. These spaces allow y…

Not so long ago, Chipotle was known more as poster child for fast-casual foodborne illness than for its burritos. A few years and a regime change later, and the chain is talked about not for E. Coli but for its digital transformation efforts that are much pra…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to use blockchain to identify, track, and trace prescription medicines and vaccines distributed throughout the country. International Business Machines(NYSE:IBM), along with Walmart, Merck, and KPMG, have been chose…

If youve ever found yourself in your local grocery store wondering what the difference is between sell by, best by, expires by, or use by food labels, youre not alone. That confusion contributes to American consumers trashing $161 billion in food each year. …

Former NBA champ Mike Miller ended his career with the Denver Nuggets in 2017. Now, he's an owner of the all-natural, fast-casual burger joint BurgerFi. "I was first introduced to the BurgerFi concept when one of my partners became a franchisee in Alabama,…