Over the past few decades, buying food with an “organic” label has become increasingly popular. While some people try to only eat organic food (since organic food is not treated with pesticides), most people couldn’t care less if their food was organic. Unfortunately for fans of the organic movement, organic food is generally more expensive than conventional food — and that […]

Your baby may have a smaller appetite than you do — but somehow, you find yourself spending more on primo baby food than you spend on your own meals. (Not to mention, your baby is pooping more than you do, despite how much less they eat. Seriously, what’s with that?!) But luckily, there’s a pretty easy alternative to buying overpriced, tiny […]

Dunkin’ is stretching beyond its donut origins as it introduces a new Beyond Meat breakfast sandwich. The chain restaurant rolled out the new $4.29 menu item at 163 Manhattan locations Wednesday, with plans for national availability in the future. Beyond Meat is producing the sausage exclusively for Dunkin’. But before plant-based customers get too excited, note that while the sausage […]

If you’re a fan of the Impossible Burger, you may have heard about the magical ingredient that helps the plant-based patty taste so similar to beef: heme. The topic can be a bit confusing, since heme is not usually something we see on ingredient lists — though if you eat meat, you’ve eaten your fair share of heme. Not to mention, […]

Nine times out of 10, when someone finds out I’m vegan, they respond with, “Oh, I could never go vegan, because I just couldn’t give up cheese.” And I totally get that — because I said that exact same thing just a few months before I decided to go vegan. But once I learned about the devastating environmental effects, health implications, […]

Over the past few years, countless plant-based meat alternatives have hit the market, and customers’ increased demand for more ethical and environmentally-friendly products are slowly starting to disrupt the meat industry. And according to a new paper, it’s predicted that 20 years from now, the market for vegan meat and lab-grown meat will actually surpass the market for animal-based meat. […]

There’s not going to be one singular solution to solve the problem of climate change. In reality, it’s going to take a multi-pronged approach encapsulating everything from reducing our individual carbon footprints to potentially more drastic solutions such as geoengineering. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California have another approach to add to the pile […]

Impossible Foods, the company behind the Impossible Burger, is working on another meatless product: Fishless fish. The fishless fish is in development to respond to the growing demand for plant-based food and to help fight against the depletion of ocean populations, according to The New York Times. Impossible Foods has already created a plant-based, anchovy-flavored broth, which is being used […]

Food tech start-up Solar Foods has created a climate-friendly protein-rich food that uses much less water and land than other animal or plant-based foods. Developed in collaboration with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Solein is made by applying electricity to water to release bubbles of carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Living microbes are added […]

Every year, more than four billion disposable Starbucks to-go cups are distributed — and promptly sent to landfills, according to Clean Water Action. Consumers who bring their own reusable to-go cups to Starbucks definitely help reduce the demand for Starbucks’ single-use cups, but one Starbucks location is trying to reduce that number without putting the responsibility on the consumer. A Starbucks […]