Award winning brand Oumph! have launched their products into Tesco with three of their products available. Items now available in the supermarket are Pulled Oumph!, Kebab Spiced and The Chunk, which is unseasoned. Oumph! is owned by Swedish company Food for Progress, and CEO Anders Wallerman said: “We are looking forward to launching in Tesco.…

Aldi stores in the UK are ditching their single-use £0.05p plastic bags to cut waste and will instead offer bags for life and reusable £0.09p bags that will be made from back-of-store plastic waste. The supermarket has pledged its support to a cross-sector enterprise set up by Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP). Earlier this…

The increasing popularity of the vegan market is prompting ingredients suppliers to cater to this market further, according to Hydrosol, as the demand for innovative solutions is in demand. Hydrosol specialise in stabilizing ingredients and systems, and in emulsifiers with a wide range of products that accommodate to vegans. Key areas that saw a dramatic…

Tideford Organics, based in Devon have switched to using green energy provided by Ecotricity, the UK’s leading green energy provider. In 2016 Tideford became the UK’s first organic, vegan and gluten-free brand in efforts to include more vegetables into people’s diets. Tideford say that leading a plant based diet can reduce your carbon footprint by…

UK food manufacturers are being told by Public Health England to cut the calories in their products by 20 per cent by 2024 in efforts to decrease the amount of people having obesity related health problems. It is part of the strategy put in place to tackle childhood and adult obesity, as many products include…

The Canadian Government are investing $150 million into the plant based food sector following a study that found over 40 per cent of Canadians shifting towards a more plant based diet. A study conducted by Nielsen found that 43 per cent of Canadians are actively incorporating more plant based foods into their diets. The motivation…

UK supermarket chain Iceland are launching their first own brand vegan burger called the No Bull Burger and is comparable to products such as the Moving Mountain B12 Burger and other burgers that are mimicking the texture of meat patties. Speaking to The Sun, Iceland’s Chief Executive Neil Nugent said: “We are trying to get…

A vegan community called VeganNation has begun using a cryptocurrency that they call ‘vegancoin’. The community is decentralized and online, bringing together people who are vegan and providing them with vegan products and services. The platform intends for users to be able to connect with other vegans and order food from other vegans nearby, using…

Milk brand Perfect Day have received $24.7 million in funding to kick-start their vision of cow-free dairy milk. The founders Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi got invested from Temasek, a Singapore state-owned investment company. The brand hope to disrupt the dairy industry by creating milk that is dairy, but engineered in a lab and not…