Episodes
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Oatly rises to top in UK oat milk frenzy
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
The UK is in the middle of an oat milk frenzy, its per capita consumption of oat milk even higher than that of the US. The frenzy has been driven by the success of Oatly, a brand which was among the fastest-growing brands in the UK supermarket in 2020. In this episode, we take a look at the brand's financial performance, marketing and communications.
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
New directions in food & nutrition after Covid-19: Interview with Tim Avila
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Covid-19 has brought into relief the links between metabolic disease and food and nutrition. We discuss the implications with Tim Avila, president of LA-based Systems Bioscience, and a nutrition super-connector working with companies from the US to Norway and New Zealand to create science-based products that improve human health. He talks about dietary guidelines, whether they help make people healthier, and maps a way ahead with phyto-nutrients and micro-nutrients.
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
What's behind cultured meat's sustainability promise?
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Investors are pouring billions of dollars into companies that hope to commercialise plant-based meat substitutes and cultured meats, produced by fermentation. They are many times hailed as a greener alternative to animal agriculture. But how exactly is cultured meat produced and how likely is to save the planet? NNB North American editor Dale Buss has been digging into this area and he discusses what he has found with Julian Mellentin.
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
The secret history of plant milks
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Most of you have heard in a presentation or seen in the media that plant milks are mainstream and that they are taking over from cows' milk. Today we take a short tour around some facts to show that none of these statements are true. We look at the secret history of the plant milk business, and how the US dairy industry got to compete so successfully that just a few years from now sales of lactose-free cows’ milk will be bigger than sales of plant milk.
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Embracing the risk of innovation
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Everyone loves an innovation incubator! Since 2012, the corporate or investment fund that doesn't have involvement in an incubator has become a rare exception. The newest convert to the creed of innovation is Ocean Spray Cranberries, the 90-year-old farmer-owned cooperative.
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Disruptive tech investors blind to consumer behaviour
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, is investing in a Chilean start-up that uses machine learning to create vegan alternatives to animal-based products. It’s one of many similar “vegan” investments by investors with a background in Silicon Valley, and it’s fuelled by their belief they can disrupt existing categories. It’s a belief that rests on certain assumptions – and they are about to learn how weak those assumptions are.
Thursday Mar 26, 2020
What does personalisation mean for the food and beverage industry?
Thursday Mar 26, 2020
Thursday Mar 26, 2020
New Nutrition Business's market research manager Joana Maricato discusses how food & beverage companies can successfully connect to personalised nutrition with Josh Anthony. Josh is the CEO at Nlumn, where he is helping companies create personalised products with benefits that people want. He was also the founding chief science officer at the personalised nutrition company Habit.
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Is regenerative agriculture the new frontier for food?
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
If meat and dairy are to be redeemed with consumers who suspect livestock husbandry and conventional farming are bad for the planet, so-called “regenerative” agriculture will play a key role. Already companies, including food industry giants, are experimenting with ways of moving away from “corporate agriculture” to farming in ways that “feed” the soil in the hope of meeting emerging consumer demands for the foods they eat to have a lower environmental impact.