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Sep 25, 2023 | 
foodmatterslive.com | Stef Bottinelli
Flavours and fragrances specialist Givaudan and behavioural insights firm Canvas8 have teamed up to produce FlavourVision®, a trends report which identifies and maps five key food experience trends. The report aims to understand and navigate the ever changing consumers’ taste preferences and wellbeing interests, and to provide insights into future planning.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
foodmatterslive.com | Stef Bottinelli
Welcome and thank you for joining me this weekend. The UK’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak might have made a U-turn on the Government’s climate pledges, but that doesn’t mean that we are no longer striving to reach our sustainability goals. In fact, many stakeholders in the food sector are working hard behind the scenes to make sure the industry operates in a more climate friendly and sustainable manner. Read all about the 10 key trends in sustainable food.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
foodmatterslive.com | Stef Bottinelli
Ensuring that the food system becomes truly sustainable is no longer an option. In the midst of a climate crisis and with the global population predicted to increase by two billion in the next 30 years, feeding the world, achieving food security and reversing the damage done to the environment is now paramount if we want to avert an irreparable crisis.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
foodmatterslive.com | Stef Bottinelli
How do you convince consumers to adopt a sustainable diet? It may sound like a simple question to answer, after all we are living during a climate emergency, where droughts, fires, food insecurity and the mistreatment of farm animals make the daily headlines. Yet the global human taste for meat is not decreasing. “We love meat, we just don’t think we should come from animals,“says Edwin Bark, Senior Vice President of Redefine Meat.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
foodmatterslive.com | Stef Bottinelli
What does sustainability mean? When Anne Marie Butler, Global Director for Strategy and Innovation at dairy-free and dairy flavours company Edlong and speaker at Food Matters Live’s Sustainable Food Forum, was asked this question, she realised that the concept differs for everyone, according to what their business or personal sustainability needs are.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
foodmatterslive.com | Stef Bottinelli
Welcome and thank you for joining me this weekend. Food, like just about anything else, goes through trends, dictated by several different reasons: new product development, availability or scarcity of an ingredient, global mobility, environmental needs, health concerns, new technologies, fluctuation in global politics and economy, and so forth. The needs of consumers shift, and those of food manufacturers do too.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
foodmatterslive.com | Stef Bottinelli
The Cultivated B (TCB), a biotech company based in Germany and North America, has started discussions with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and officially entered the pre-submission process for novel food approval. Once it submits its dossier for approval of its cultured meat sausages, it will become the first company to apply for EFSA certification for a cultivated product.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
foodmatterslive.com | Stef Bottinelli
Cambri has unveiled Launch AI™, a platform created to help companies launch more successful food and drink products and minimise the risk of market failure. Developed by Helsinki and Stockholm-based global research-tech growth company Cambri, Launch AI™ uses artificial intelligence to analyse, advise and predict the success of new products. The tech company says their AI platform can transform NPD success rates from the market average, between 5 – 25%, to 73%.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
foodmatterslive.com | Stef Bottinelli
CEO and co-founder of Food Evolution, a plant-based company producing meat alternatives such as vegan bacon, beef and chicken pieces, and burgers, Alberto Musacchio is a well-known figure in his native Italy. In 1979 he opened the first vegetarian restaurant in the country, followed by Country House Montali, a vegetarian hotel and restaurant surrounded by olive groves and perched on a peaceful hill in Umbria.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
foodmatterslive.com | Stef Bottinelli
Welcome and thank you for joining me this weekend. At the moment it seems that everyone is talking about Living to 100: secrets of the blue zones. Released recently, the Netflix documentary by American journalist Dan Buettner investigates longevity, focussing on the ‘blue zones’, corners of the planet where people surpass the average life expectancy and tend to have fewer ailments than the rest of the world.
