Andre Menezes first tried plant-based food in 2017 in Singapore, when he was getting his teeth into the famous plant-based vegetarian “meat” burger by Impossible Foods. That was a bite to remember, he told KrASIA. As a meat-eater, he was highly impressed not only by the crunchy, savoury flavour of the …
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His first company, Odwalla, was crippled by a bacterial outbreak; he then started Califia Farms, now a leader in the beverage industry. In 1980, Greg Steltenpohl and his hippie friends in Santa Cruz, Calif., bought a juicer for $ 250, began squeezing fresh orange juice and sold it out of …
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While 2020 may have killed many businesses, it has also sparked the birth of ingenious business ideas. The COVID-19 pandemic served as a window of opportunity for some businesses, and is a period of time that allowed them to pivot or start up something new amid these trying times. From …
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Karana’s on a mission to change even meat eaters’ palates by creating deceptively scrumptious plant-based substitutes. This Singapore-based foodtech startup is Asia’s first whole-plant based meat company, which creates pulled pork substitutes from an unlikely source: jackfruit. Karana’s whole-plant pork is available shredded or minced, and it’s also catered for …
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