Ahead of the summit, we share Michelle Colgrave's interview about the alternative protein landscape in Australia, and how CSIRO is encouraging collaboration across the innovation ecosystem to support nutritious, sustainable products reaching the right markets across the world. We are seeing a huge demand for alternative proteins in the Asia-Pacific region and around the world, but currently, there isn’t enough capacity to meet this need. What needs to happen for supply to catch … [Read more...] about Opportunities for Plant-Based Proteins: pre-summit interview with Michelle Colgrave, Future Protein Mission Leader at CSIRO Agriculture & Food
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Asia Sustainable Foods Platform and CREMER Joint Venture’s First Contract Manufacturing Facility Brings Alternative Protein Closer to Asian Consumers
SINGAPORE, 20 JULY 2022 – Asia Sustainable Foods (ASF) Platform, a wholly-owned company of Temasek, and CREMER announced today that their joint venture, Cremer Sustainable Foods (CSF), officially opened its first plant-based protein contract manufacturing facility in Singapore. The facility is located within LOGOS Food21, a high-specification food production building in the Tuas Food Zone. CSF is one of the few contract manufacturers for alternative proteins located in Asia. As demand … [Read more...] about Asia Sustainable Foods Platform and CREMER Joint Venture’s First Contract Manufacturing Facility Brings Alternative Protein Closer to Asian Consumers
Breeding mung bean for plant-based protein market
Researchers and plant breeders at Iowa State University are collaborating to develop a new crop to sustain a plant-based protein market. They aim to create new mung bean varieties, considered new crops in the United States. In Asia, farmers have been growing mung beans for centuries. Farmers in the Midwestern US look at the crop, a high-yield and high-protein mung bean, as a means to add diversity to their land management as well as improve crop farming income. The mung is a legume … [Read more...] about Breeding mung bean for plant-based protein market
