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Drinks, Beverages Market: Branding and Startups - Direct to Consumer Brands

Drinks, Beverages Market: Branding and Startups - Direct to Consumer Brands

Fertilizers and Pesticides - agriculture, farming, science

Fertilizers and Pesticides - agriculture, farming, science

Caffeine - health, biology effects of coffee and caffeinated beverages

Caffeine - health, biology effects of coffee and caffeinated beverages

CRISPR, gene editing and DNA manipulation - agriculture, plants and food production

CRISPR, gene editing and DNA manipulation - agriculture, plants and food production

Subsidies - Farming, Agriculture - Government incentives, subsidy

Subsidies - Farming, Agriculture - Government incentives, subsidy

Starbucks Coffee - business, marketing

Starbucks Coffee - business, marketing

Agtech and Agriculture innovation in Latin America

a collection of articles about Agriculture Technology in Latin America

Farming, Agriculture - Business, Science and Statistics

Farming, Agriculture - Business, Science and Statistics

European Food Delivery and Grocery apps

European Food Delivery and Grocery apps

Wolt - Food delivery app from Helsinki, Finland

Wolt - Food delivery app from Helsinki Finland - competing vs. DoorDash, Instacart, UberEats, and...

Plant-Based and Lab-Grown meat - Innovation in Food technology, agriculture

Plant-Based and Lab-Grown meat - Innovation in Food technology, agriculture

Tomatos, Agriculture and Science

Tomatos, Agriculture and Science

Mexican food

Mexican food

Mushrooms, Fungi

Mushrooms - plants, food, environment

Addiction, health, psychology

Addiction, health, psychology

iOS apps - Food delivery apps

iOS apps - Food delivery apps - Postmates, Grubhub, Uber Eats and more

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Article

We Need to Talk About Trader Joe’s

Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many foo... (2024)


Article

Singapore is the world leader in selling cultivated meat

Singapore and food security. The home of cultivated meat. Singapore has also become the global launchpad for foods made through precision fermenta... (2023)


Article

Investing in SCiFi Foods - engineering lab-grown cultivated meat - a16z | Andreessen Horowitz

One of the greatest challenges the world faces today is how to sustainably feed our ever-growing global population without compromising the environ... (2022)


Article

What's the difference between sugar, other natural sweeteners and artificial sweeteners?

Just because something is sweet doesn’t necessarily mean it is sugary. There are a number of molecules that taste sweet. To understand how and why ... (2022)


Article

Latin America’s food paradox – TechCrunch

If we want to successfully address malnutrition in Latin America, agritech and food tech solutions need to come from within. (2021)


Article

The meat dilemma: Eating lower-carbon meat means killing many more animals – Hannah Ritchie

"What's the biggest change I can make to reduce the carbon footprint of my diet?" It's a question I'm often asked, and my answer is pretty consiste... (2021)


Article

Five smart ways to fight food waste | TED Ed

An estimated 30 percent of the planet’s food supply is needlessly discarded. Here are some imaginative ideas to stop the rot. (2017)


Article

Inside the Secretive, Semi-Illicit, High Stakes World of WhatsApp Mango Importing

To buy Pakistan’s Anwar Ratol and Chaunsa mangoes, prized for their explosive flavor and sweetness, you’ll need to place an order via WhatsApp and ... (2021)


Article

Forget Impossible, the fungi renaissance is here | WIRED UK

While Impossible and Beyond burgers grab all the headlines, a much more humble foodstuff is poised to lead the next wave of alternative proteins (2021)


Article

Bananas have died out once before – don’t let it happen again – Jackie Turner | Aeon Ideas

Most bananas are genetic clones and vulnerable to extinction. They nearly died out before: can we stop it happening again? (2021)


Article

This Y Combinator startup is taking lab-grown meat upscale with elk, lamb and Wagyu beef cell lines – TechCrunch

Last week a select group of 20 employees and guests gathered at an event space on the San Francisco Bay, and, while looking out at the Bay Bridge, ... (2021)


Article

DoorDash acquires salad-making robotics startup, Chowbotics – TechCrunch

DoorDash is expanding its robotic footprint into the kitchen. The delivery service is set to acquire Chowbotics, a Bay Area-based robotics best kno... (2021)


Article

How to Cook Black Beans - Easy Recipe to Soak & Cook Dried Black Beans

Cooking dry black beans might require a bit more effort than heating up a can, but it is 100% worth the effort. Boiling the beans with some aromati... (2020)


Article

McDonald's confirms creation of McPlant plant-based burger, will debut in 2021

McDonald's confirmed its new Crispy Chicken Sandwich would arrive in the U.S. in 2021 and that it has created a plant-based platform dubbed McPlant. (2020)


Article

Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years

How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginning A nickname for the fruit was the “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick ... (2020)


Article

How To Make Better-than-Takeout Beef and Broccoli in the Slow Cooker

Beef and broccoli ranks high on my list of takeout favorites. The savory combination of tender beef, sweet broccoli, and vibrant carrots cooked in... (2020)


Article

Copy of Generations of Handwritten Mexican Cookbooks Are Now Online

North America's largest-known Mexican cookbook collection inspires both tears and restaurant dishes. (2020)


Article

Generations of Handwritten Mexican Cookbooks Are Now Online

North America's largest-known Mexican cookbook collection inspires both tears and restaurant dishes. (2020)


Article

Fruits and Vegetables Are Trying to Kill You

You probably try to exercise regularly and eat right. Perhaps you steer toward “superfoods,” fruits, nuts, and vegetables advertised; The idea t... (2020)


Article

From farm to factory: the unstoppable rise of American chicken

How industrial chicken farming transformed an ‘alternative’ meat to the most consumed meat in the US How did America go from thinking of chicken... (2020)


Article

5 Methods to Make Italian-Style Coffee at Home. The Winner Was Clear (and Surprising!)

It doesn’t take much digging through the vast array of coffee-making apparatuses, either at your local kitchen store or online, to get overwhelmed.... (2020)


Article

This Is How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine | Science

Regular ingestion of the drug alters your brain's chemical makeup, leading to fatigue, headaches and nausea if you try to quit (2020)


Article

How a Cheese Goes Extinct

When you talk with aficionados, it usually doesn’t take long for the conversation to veer away from curds, whey, and mold, and toward matters of li... (2020)


Article

What’s at the front of the line?

Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect A study of behavior at breakfast buffets showed that the first item in the buffet was taken b... (2020)


Article

The historical roots of your lockdown sourdough obsession

During the lockdown, baking bread can bring us together and help us articulate our fears. (2020)




Article

The Worst Rebrand in the History of Orange Juice - Better Marketing

In hindsight, it’s easy to see why Tropicana’s 2009 rebrand failed. Poor design choices, a messy, vague, esoteric theme, and — as always with these... (2020)


Article

Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector — Reuters

With the pandemic hobbling the meat-packing industry, Iowa farmer Al Van Beek had nowhere to ship his full-grown pigs to make room for the 7,500 pi... (2020)


Article

Americans on Cusp of Meat Shortage With Food Chain Breaking Down - April 2020 - Bloomberg

‘The food supply chain is breaking,’ Tyson chairman says Almost a third of U.S. pork capacity is down after outbreaks Plant shutdowns are lea... (2020)


Video

Chomps: How We Turned $6,500 Into A Business Bringing In $244 Million A Year

Looking to make a healthier-for-you meat snack, friends Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali together put forth $6,500 to launch their "side hustle" back ... (2024)


Video

Justin's: How I Built A Peanut Butter Company And Sold It For $281 Million

Justin Gold put his homemade nut butters in Whole Foods, but still couldn't turn a profit. A 2006 mountain-biking ride inspired a new product that ... (2024)


Video

Vita Coco: My Billion-Dollar Coconut Water Company

After a chance encounter with two Brazilian women in a New York City bar in 2003 and hearing about the tasty coconut water they missed from back ho... (2024)


Video

How Red Bull Makes Money

Besides selling one can for almost every person on the planet in 2019, Red Bull owns several football clubs, runs two formula one teams and is famo... (2024)


Video

Why Aldi is a Threat to Supermarkets | WSJ The Economics Of

Aldi’s ‘no-frills’ strategy has helped make it one of the cheapest and the fastest growing grocery stores in the U.S. For the past decade, it’s bee... (2023)


Video

Cocoa farming and Chocolate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses chocolate, cocoa farming, and, of course, some facts that will make Halloween a little weird.Connect with Last Week Tonight o... (2023)


Video

Why Sweetgreen’s Beloved $15 Salads Still Aren’t Profitable | WSJ The Economics Of

Sweetgreen’s fast-casual $15 salads have a cult following. But even as the salad chain has sold millions of these bowls to its customers, net profi... (2023)


Video

How Starbucks Operates Like a Bank While Serving Coffee | WSJ

Starbucks, a $124.4 billion company, trails only McDonald’s as the largest restaurant chain by market capitalization. In this video, WSJ’s Heather ... (2022)


Video

How the food you eat affects your brain - Mia Nacamulli

TED-Ed Published on Jun 21, 2016 When it comes to what you bite, chew and swallow, your choices have a direct and long-lasting effect on the mo... (2019)


Video

Millions protest genetically modified food - 2013 - CNN

Jake Tapper reports on the controversy that surrounds GMOs and one of the companies that makes them. For more CNN videos, visit our site ... (2019)


Video

Europe's new approach to GMOs

Long divided over GMOs - are they a threat or an opportunity? - the EU has now found a way forward. (2019)


Video

Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food

Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded? Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): https://w... (2019)


Video

What's wrong with our food system | Birke Baehr | TEDxNext Generation Asheville

Birke Baehr -"what's Wrong With Our Food System? And How Can We Make A Difference. Video by: Twin Path Productions www.... (2019)


Video

Expensive wine is for suckers - Vox

You don't have to spend a lot of money on a bottle of wine. Few wine experts and regular people can tell the difference between expensive wine and ... (2018)


Video

Tree to Bar || How to Make Chocolate Every Step

In this video I show every step to making dark chocolate from cacao tree to chocolate bar. There is roughly 7 step to making chocolate so sit back ... (2018)


Video

YC How to Start a Startup - Lecture 8 - How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale - Door Dash

How to Start a Startup Published on Oct 16, 2014 Lecture 8 features 3 speakers: Stanley Tang, Founder of Doordash, covers How to Get Started. ... (2018)


Video

This is How Much Sugar is In a Can of Coke

In 140 seconds, Dave Rubin demonstrates how much sugar is in one can of coca-cola. Comment below or tweet your thoughts to Dave at https://twitter.... (2018)


Video

Why eating healthy is so expensive in America - YouTube

Produce helps your health and hurts your wallet, but some strategies may change that. The American dinner plate is deficient in nutritious produce... (2018)


Video

Food Waste: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight Published on Jul 19, 2015 Producers, sellers, and consumers waste tons of food. John Oliver discusses the shocking amount of fo... (2018)


Podcast

On Beeing - 99% Invisible

Driving between Oakland and Los Angeles in February offers glimpses of a spectacular scene — neat, symmetrical rows of trees covered with pink and ... (2019)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Who’s Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)

with Ryan Caldbeck, Jeff Jordan, and Sonal Chokshi (2019)


Podcast

Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' In Search Of More Productive Crops - NPR

Scientists have re-engineered photosynthesis, a foundation of life on Earth, creating genetically modified plants that grow faster and bigger. They... (2019)


Podcast

Beer, Drinking Water And Fish: Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere : NPR

Plastic trash less than 5 millimeters long is in the things we eat and drink, and the air we breathe. Scientists are just beginning to study where ... (2018)


Podcast

America's Growing Taste For Mezcal Is Good For Mexico's Small Producers : NPR

Oaxaca is the heart of mezcal country, where the pungent booze is made from the same plant as tequila by traditional distillers. As U.S. drinkers e... (2018)


Book

Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World by Paul Shapiro

Paul Shapiro gives you a front-row seat for the wild story of the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat—real meat—witho... (2018)


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225 Articles
19 Videos
5 Podcasts
1 Books
76 Chunks