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The Spoon 2023 3D Printing Deep Dive
We've been hearing about 3D food printers for the last decade, but with very little to show for it. To hear what’s happening in the world of 3D food printing, The Spoon brought together some of the leading thinkers in the world of food printing for a conversation about the current state of this nascent market.
Thirsty For a Beer? Let’s Print You Up a Frothy Cold One
Say it’s Friday night, and you’re having friends over to have a beer and watch the game. You ask your buddy what type of beer she likes, and when she tells you she wants a hoppy IPA, you say no problem. While you don’t have one in the...
Sigh. It Looks Like Misinformation is Coming For Food Waste Technology Too
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how misinformation has real potential to harm the nascent cultivated meat industry. As it turns out, meat grown in bioreactors is not the only food tech-related misinformation floating around nowadays. Over the last couple of weeks, viral media posts have circulated about the...
Walmart Gains Share in Online Grocery as Shoppers Look for Ways to Combat Inflation
While online grocery shopping continued to grow last year, where people shopped shifted significantly according to a new report from grocery researcher Brick Meets Click. The new report, which details the egrocery performance for different retail formats, said Walmart was the big winner in 2022 as more and more customers looked for ways to save a buck. According to the report, which broke down the four major formats as supermarkets, Walmart, Target, and Hard Discount (i.e. Aldi and Lidl), Walmart saw its share of online grocery shoppers grow in both low-income and high-income households.
Four Years After CES, Breadbot’s Robotic Breadmaker is Dishing Out Loaves at Grocery Stores
For robot startups seeking to make a splash at CES, there are a few options: holding a large press conference, making it weird and creepy, or serving cocktails. However, one method stands out above the rest for drawing in crowds: wafting the aroma of freshly baked bread (aka ‘the Subway method‘).
Dispatches from Israel Food Tech Ecosystem: Amir Zaidman, The Kitchen
Last month, I visited the Kitchen Hub at their office in Ashdod, Israel and sat down with Amir Zaidman, Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of the Kitchen. Prior to co-founding the Kitchen, he spent 10-14 years in business development in medical technology working on both the startup and investing sides.
Dispatches From the Israel Food Tech Ecosystem
When I first attended the Greencircle NY-Israel food tech conference in New York City last year, I never imagined that I would be living in Israel just a year later, exploring the food tech ecosystem for myself. I relocated to Tel Aviv in mid-January for an exchange program and have since been discovering the richness of Israel’s culture, language, cities, people, and places. While the high-tech innovation was a significant draw, my primary goal was to immerse myself in the culture and history of Israel as a whole. In the short time I’ve been here, I learned that the country’s foundation lies in its entrepreneurial mindset.
Home Are Still the Biggest Source of Food Waste (44M Tons), and It’s Only Getting Worse
Last week, ReFED released its latest edition of the Food Waste Monitor, which is part of the ReFED Insights Engine, an interactive tool that tracks food waste sources, solutions, capital, and impact. The organization monitors food waste through the lens of excess food production, which means how much excess food...
Scoop: Starbucks Trialing Amazon’s Palm Payment System in the Seattle Market
Starbucks is trialing Amazon’s biometric payment system, Amazon One, in the Seattle market. The system, which allows customers to pay in-store with the scan of a palm, was spotted in a Starbucks north of the company’s Seattle headquarters in Edmonds, Washington. To sign up to use the system,...
Air-to-Water Technology Maker ‘The Air Water Company’ To Go Public Via SPAC
Today, Air Water Ventures (previously known as Eshara Water) and the publicly listed SPAC Athena Technology Acquisition Corp. II announced a business combination agreement, resulting in a new company called The Air Water Company. This merger will establish the first publicly traded air-to-water technology pure-play when the combined company begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange, anticipated in the first quarter of 2024.
Spoiled Opportunities: How Tupperware Could Have Reinvented Itself Before It Was Too Late
In recent weeks, news reports about the struggles of the housewares brand Tupperware have surfaced. It’s unfortunate to see such a storied brand on the brink of bankruptcy, but it raises the question: was this avoidable? Could Tupperware have saved itself by embracing new ideas to modernize its brand and products?
Are Cultivated Meat Forecasts Accurately Modeling In Misinformation Risk?
Last week, GFI published their annual state of the industry reports for the three major alt-protein technology ‘pillars’, plant-based meat, fermentation, and cultivated meat (and teased a fourth one). Like many, I find the reports invaluable, as they are a good synthesis of the current scientific, regulatory, investment,...
2023 Restaurant Tech EcoSystem: Nourishing the Bottom Line
In collaboration between TechTable and Vita Vera Ventures, we are pleased to share an updated 2023 Restaurant Tech Ecosystem map. We all saw that the pandemic brought a wave of experimentation in the restaurant tech space, but we also know that tech-driven change is not always linear. In early 2022,...
Meticulous Espresso Machine Appears on Track to Become Most Funded Food-Related Kickstarter
The heyday of hardware Kickstarter may be behind us (Coolest Cooler anyone?), but occasionally, a project emerges with the right blend of a captivating promotional video, impressive specs, and promise of a better life to lure in thousands of backers. Meticulous Espresso seems to tick all those boxes, and as...
Israel’s Tastewise Turns Diverse Data into Real-Time Insights Using AI
Those who rely on data to make an important business decision know the adage, “Garbage in, garbage out.” Data is plentiful for those in the food world, but it is a challenge to select the correct data, understand what the information means, and how it relates to your specific situation.
Good Food Institute Sees Fourth Pillar For Alt Protein Market in the Form of Molecular Farming
Over the past few years, the Good Food Institute (GFI) has created dedicated reports for each category, or “pillar,” in the alternative protein market: plant-based, precision fermentation, and cultivated meat/seafood. This week, however, GFI teased what it sees as a possible fourth pillar for alternative protein pillar in the form of molecular farming.
John Deere’s Robotic Tractor is The Result of Years of Investment in AI-Powered Farming
When John Deere debuted its first-ever autonomous tractor at CES 2022, it signaled a new era of AI & robotic farming would soon be upon us. While other companies have been talking about autonomous tractors for some time, it’s an altogether different matter when the U.S.’s biggest manufacturer of farming equipment signals that this is the future.
GaeaStar Wants to Solve The Single-Use Plastic Problem With an Ancient Indian Solution: Clay Cups
One of the biggest problems of the food and beverage industry is the waste produced by single-use plastics. Because of this, there’s been a movement in the container industry over the past decade to create biodegradable plastics made with plant-based inputs, which suppliers claim can be put into the compost bin or recycled. While many of these approaches promise to reduce the amount of plastic in the waste stream, some experts still consider them problematic.
How Oliver Zahn Beat AI’s “Cold Start Problem” to Make Plant-Based Cheese That Tastes Like the Real Thing
In big data and artificial intelligence, one of the most well-recognized challenges to success is the “cold start problem.”. The cold start problem refers to when a lack of data hobbles recommender systems in machine learning models. Much like a cold car engine that causes a car to sputter and jerk along as a driver starts their journey, an algorithm built to discover and make accurate recommendations can’t perform well when it starts cold with a foundation of little to no good data.
WNWN Debuts a Cocoa-Free Easter Egg
One of the joys of childhood is biting into giant chocolate Easter eggs. Unfortunately for us chocolate lovers, the cocoa industry is rife with problems, including the fact cocoa production is one of the significant drivers of deforestation and has long been plagued by human rights abuse. Fortunately for those...
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