📚Plantwise Library: Everything Under One Roof
A regularly updated library of valuable references and reports we use in our writing, including health, sustainability, businesses, consumer trends, and regulations.
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Topics:
Health
Sustainability & Food Supply
Consumer Trends
Geographical Trends
Regulations
Food Brands
E-Commerce
Global FMCG Brands
Suppliers
Institutional Investors
Restaurants
Media Opinions
Health
The Association of UK Dieticians - Are we achieving 5-a-day?
World Resources Institute - People Are Eating More Protein than They Need—Especially in Wealthy Regions
British Heart Foundation - Protein: What you need to know
National Library of Medicine - The importance of the ratio of omega-6/omega-3 essential fatty acids
World Health Organisation - WHO Global Anaemia estimates, 2021 Edition
Harvard School of Public Health - Straight Talk About Soy
National Library of Medicine - Consumption of oat milk for 5 weeks lowers serum cholesterol and LDL cholesterol in free-living men with moderate hypercholesterolemia
National Library of Medicine - Revised Reference Values for the Intake of Protein
Blue Zones - How Sardinian Centenarians Ate For Most Of Their Lives
Vegan Health - Rationale for VeganHealth’s B12 Recommendations
The American Society of Clinical Oncology - Associations between plant-based diets and risk of disease progression in men with prostate cancer
Frontiers In Nutrition - The Myth of Cultured Meat: A Review
Frontiers In Nutrition - Cultured Meat – Are We Getting it Right?
Good Food Institute - The science of cultivated meat
Sustainability & Food Supply
IPCC - Climate Change 2022 Report
Opinium - Grocery Sustainability Report, February 2023
Pacific Institute - California’s Water Footprint
Guardian - 'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond milk obsession
Our World In Data - Soy production, Animal Feed, Deforestation
Science Advances - Types and rates of forest disturbance in Brazilian Legal Amazon, 2000–2013
Our World In Data - How could the war in Ukraine impact global food supplies?
Our World In Data - You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - (Sponsored by Beyond Meat) A randomized crossover trial on the effect of plant-based compared with animal-based meat
The EAT-Lancet Commission - Food, Planet, Health: Can we feed a future population of 10 billion people a healthy diet within planetary boundaries?
The University Of Oxford - Lab-grown meat would 'cut emissions and save energy
Consumer Trends
Capgemini Research Institute - What matters to today’s consumer: 2023 consumer behavior tracker for the consumer products and retail industries
Opium - Plant-based Meat Substitutes Report, January 2023
NimbleFins - Average UK Household Cost of Food (Updated Feb 2023)
Office for National Statistics - Family spending in the UK: April 2020 to March 2021
Scientific Reports - Most plant-based meat alternative buyers also buy meat
Frontiers In Nutrition - The Impact of Framing on Acceptance of Cultured Meat
Geographical Trends
National Library of Medicine - Food consumption patterns and economic growth. Increasing affluence and the use of natural resources
EAT-GlobeScan - Forty-two percent of consumers worldwide think most people will likely be eating plant-based food instead of meat in the next ten years
The Lancet - The global and regional costs of healthy and sustainable dietary patterns: a modelling study
Finder UK - How many vegetarians and vegans are in the UK?
The Guardian - Cambridge University students vote for completely vegan menus
Good Food Institute Europe - Most consumers in western Europe want alternatives to conventional meat, survey shows
Regulations
Court of Justice of the European Union - Purely plant-based products cannot, in principle, be marketed with designations such as ‘milk’, ‘cream’, ‘butter’, ‘cheese’ or ‘yoghurt’, which are reserved by EU law for animal products
ProVeg International - (UK) Government ban on dairy names for plant-based foods “outrageous and unnecessary”
Food Brands
Oatly (NASDAQ: OTLY): Swedish Oat milk brand; the original inventor of oat milk
PureOaty by Glebe Farm: a family-owned business from Cambridgeshire, UK, selling a range of oat products. In 2021, Oatly sued Glebe Farm for trade mark infringement. Glebe Farm won.
Hello Plant Foods: a Spanish plant-based meat producer who launched Hello Fuah!, a “hyper-realistic” vegan foie gras alternative across Spain in December 2022.
Deliciously Ella: a plant-based food & wellness platform sharing delicious ways to feel better, founded by Ella Woodward. DE offers a range of plant-based snacks and cookbooks.
THIS: a popular UK-based plant-based meat-alternatives company. Products include THIS Isn’t Bacon, THIS Isn’t Pork Sausages, and THIS Isn’t Chicken Nuggets.
Thai Taste: A popular UK-based brand that offers authentic Thai ingredient products, such as Thai Green Curry Paste. Many of the brand’s products are vegan or vegetarian.
New School Foods: the Toronto-based startup New School Foods has developed a technology to create plant-based salmon fillets that look, cook, taste, and flake like wild salmon.
Oatsu: Oatsu makes it easy to enjoy a delicious, healthy breakfast by delivering freshly-prepared overnight oats to your door.
E-commerce
TheVeganKind: UK Vegan Supermarket, now run by Wholefood Earth
Wholefood Earth: Family-run business selling vegan organic whole foods online
Global FMCG brands
Danone: targets to achieve 5 billion euros in plant-based sales by 2025. The parent company of Silk, So Delicious, Alpro, and Follow Your Heart. Danone Manifesto Ventures arm has invested in Laird Superfood, Forager Project and Nature’s Fynd,
Unilever: targets to achieve €1 billion in annual sales from plant-based meat and dairy alternatives by 2025–2027. The parent company of The Vegetarian Butcher, Hellmann’s Vegan Mayo, Sir Kensington’s Vegan Mayo, Knorr (veggie stocks), Magnum (vegan ice cream), and Ben & Jerry’s (vegan ice cream).
Nestle: recorded $860 million in revenue from vegetarian and plant-based foods in 2021. Their plant-based brands include Garden Gourmet, Vuna, Natural Bliss, Sweet Earth, Wunda, KitKat Vegan.
Suppliers
Ya YA Foods: a Canadian end-to-end co-packing company. On 3 January 2023, Oatly announced a long-term strategic partnership with Ya YA Food for the hybrid production network.
Refresco: a global contract manufacturer and bottling expert with a presence in Europe, North America, and Australia, with an ambition to expand the plant-based volumes to 5% of its portfolio in the next two years.
Institutional Investors
Literacy Capital (LSE: BOOK): a closed-end investment company focused on businesses in the UK while pledging to donate 0.9% of the net assets every year in cash to literacy charities. While sector agnostic, Literacy Capital tends to look for businesses generating £1-10M in EBITDA. In April 2021, Literacy Capital led the £3.5M funding round and became a minority shareholder in TheVeganKind.
Veg Capital: a specialist private family fund that primarily provides early-stage funding to plant-based companies developing products which help to remove animals from the food system. The portfolio includes VFC, Planty, Clive's Purely Plants, OGGS Plant Based News, and more.
Restaurants covered:
Sketch - The Lecture Room & Library: 8-course vegetarian tasting menu
Emilia’s Crafted Pasta: Vegan - “homemade pistachio and basil pesto with sautéed cherry tomatoes (casarecce)”; Vegetarian - “homemade creamy walnut sauce with chestnut mushrooms (casarecce")”
Tonkotsu: Vegan - Soya Tantanmen; Japanese Mushroom Miso. Both can be served hot and cold.
Media Opinions
Bloomberg BusinessWeek - Fake Meat Was Supposed to Save the World. It Became Just Another Fad.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek - Lab-Grown Meat Has a Bigger Problem Than the Lab
Financial Times - Has the appetite for plant-based meat already peaked?
Financial Times - Inflation kills off hopes for return of plant-based meat boom
Futurity - Expert: Fake meat won’t have a huge eco impact
Plant Based News - Fake Meat Or Fake News? Why Vegan Food Isn’t ‘Just Another Fad’
Green Queen - Where is Plant-Based Meat Going?
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