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Aug 12, 2024 | 
msn.com | Larissa Zimberoff
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Larissa Zimberoff
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 7: John Hooley grills corn and sausage for a birthday picnic at Fletcher’s Cove on May 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Maansi Srivastava for The Washington Post)By Larissa ZimberoffAugust 12, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. EDTConsumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. Corn is one of nature’s curiosities in that it’s both a grain and a vegetable.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
theinformation.com | Larissa Zimberoff
A few weeks ago, at a former jellybean factory in Emeryville, California, I tasted what may be the future of food: the lab-grown, or cultured, meat produced by Prolific Machines, a four-year-old startup that has been operating in secret while it develops its technology. “Last night, I worried what you were going to think,” admitted cofounder Declan Jones, 30, a funny Englishman clad in a purple tie-dyed Alice Coltrane t-shirt. The vibe matched the tattoos covering his arms.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
newyorkfolk.com | James White |Yasmin Tayag |Larissa Zimberoff |Megan Garber
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. I’ve long fought the battle in defense of milk chocolate. My colleague Yasmin Tayag understands this position—her favorite chocolate treat is the Cadbury Creme Egg—but in a recent article, she acknowledges that genuinely “good chocolate ….
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
sfchronicle.com | Larissa Zimberoff
There was a time when peanut butter was the hero of school lunches. Today, it’s the villain. Allergies are serious business. Over 6 million people in the U.S. are allergic to the legume. Even airlines stopped handing out little bags of nuts. But new choices aim to please sandwich lovers and fill candies like “peanut butter” cups without the nuts — or even the chocolate around it. Voyage Foods, a startup in West Oakland, has raised more than $40 million on that premise.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
fastcompany.com | Larissa Zimberoff
By Larissa Zimberoff2 minute ReadWhat is life without learning from our mistakes? For Eat Just, which is relaunching its popular and much-litigated mayo, this is a definite do-over. Ideally, it goes more smoothly for the embattled startup. Just Mayo hasn’t been on the shelves since 2019. But starting today, you can pick up a jar in two flavors—original and chipotle—in the refrigerated aisle of Whole Foods Market stores nationwide. Mayo is big money. It’s in almost every fridge in the country.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
fastcompany.com | Larissa Zimberoff
Josh Tetrick has advice for the alternative protein industry he helped start. He’s certainly war-scarred from his efforts to mainstream first plant-based replacements for mayonnaise, then eggs, and more recently cultivated meat from chicken cells. Since starting in 2011 as Beyond Eggs (later renamed to Hampton Creek Foods and now Eat Just), Tetrick has lived through just about everything one can in his campaign to disrupt the massive industrialized food system we all dine on daily.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
sierraclub.org | Larissa Zimberoff |Maria Hoey
The meat industry is doing our planet in. Researchers estimate that 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock production. So a batch of start-ups are taking a scientific approach to solving this problem by making better meat alternatives—innovative burgers, steaks, and kebabs are being crafted without the climate impact of clearing forests and growing crops to feed the animals that we eat.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
sfchronicle.com | Larissa Zimberoff
If you’re not olive oil in the kitchen, you’re nobody. But olive oil, which is healthy and delicious, is expensive, and it isn’t a workhorse. That award goes to canola, palm and soybean oil, of which Americans consume an estimated 11.56 million metric tons per year. And increasingly, they’re being scrutinized for their impact on our planet and health. One competitor hoping to challenge them is Zero Acre Farms, a new kind of oil made with minimal environmental impact through a fermentation process.
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Dec 3, 2023 | 
devicedaily.com | Larissa Zimberoff
Cell-cultured meat is far from dead, but it’s time for a trillion-dollar Biden moonshot
By Larissa Zimberoff October 21, 2023You know things are hot when celebrities are signing term sheets. While helpful, it’s not their money that’s propping up the food-tech ecosystem.
