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Food as Medicine Platform Foodsmart Expands Reach to 7.4 Million Patients as...
Today, food as medicine and telehealth startup Foodsmart announced an expansion of its “Foodscripts” program and a new round of funding. The company says it will reach up to 7.4 million patients...
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Algae Cooking Club Debuts High-Smoke Point Cooking Oil Made from Fermented...
Today, a startup called the Algae Cooking Club introduced its first product, a chef-grade algae-based cooking oil. According to the company, the new oil has a smoke point of 535 °F, much higher than...
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Food+Tech Connect Legislation Aims to Ban Cultivated Meat from School...
Image Credit: New York Times Every week we track the business, tech and investment trends in CPG, retail, restaurants, agriculture, cooking and health, so you don’t have to. Here are some of this...
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Check Out NXP’s Presence-Sensing Cooktop Demo Powered by On-Chip AI
We’re still sifting through some of the cool product demos from CES last month, and one that caught my eye was the demo by NXP of a presence-sensing cooktop powered by an embedded MCU with what the...
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Fresco Deal With Panasonic Brings Device Control & AI-Powered Planning to...
At CES 2024, Panasonic announced that it had struck a deal with smart kitchen OS startup Fresco to integrate the Fresch kitchen OS platform with the Japanese brand’s multi-oven countertop cooking...
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Mill, Maker of a High-Tech Home Food Waste Bin, Adjusts Plans and Enables...
It’s been just over a year since the Mill, the company behind a high-tech home food waste bin, was announced to the public. The company, which made an initial splash with a unique waste-to-chicken...
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The June Oven is Cooked
If you’ve been paying attention to the June Oven website lately (and really, who hasn’t?), you may have noticed that it’s been a bit difficult to order a new smart oven from the company for most of...
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Food+Tech Connect Cultivated Meat Funding Dropped 78% in 2023, Obesity Drug...
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Chef Robotics Hits 10M Meal Milestone in Under Two Years. The Secret?...
This week, food automation startup Chef Robotics told The Spoon it had reached the ten million-meal milestone, less than two years after the company’s first robot was deployed in June 2022. If you...
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Overcoming Obstacles To Build Kitchen Tech Hardware With Ovie’s Ty Thompson
Ty Thompson and the rest of the Ovie team recently passed a major milestone: They shipped their first hardware product. The product, a consumer food waste management system, was over half a decade in...
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The Origin Story Behind OMM, the Countertop Egg-Making Robot from Bridge...
A few years ago, Lance Lentini was a year out of college when he started working at DEKA Research & Development, a technology development firm. This wasn’t just any engineering firm; it was the...
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Can Whirlpool’s Deal to Use BORA’s Downdraft Ventilation Add Momentum to...
One of the more intriguing long-term technology trends in the kitchen industry has been the up-and-down market evolution of induction cooking. Though introduced almost a century ago at the 1933...
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GE Appliances Debuts EcoBalance and Its Vision of the Kitchen as Integral...
This week at KBIS, Haier subsidiary GE Appliances focused much of its, um, energy around getting the message out around its new EcoBalance Home System, a new whole-home home systems energy management...
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Fresco Locks Up Deal To Bring Kitchen OS to Middleby Consumer Kitchen Brands
This week, smart kitchen startup Fresco announced it had struck a deal with Middleby to integrate the Fresco Kitchen OS platform across the cooking equipment giant’s residential portfolio, starting...
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Ralph Newhouse Tells The Story of Chefman and Chef iQ (and Drops Some News...
Around 2009, Ralph Newhouse’s company hunted down excess inventory of small electrics and would re-sell them into the secondary market. However, it wasn’t long before Newhouse realized he wanted to...
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After Hitting Ten Thousand Users, Mill Unveils Second-Generation Hi-Tech Food...
Last week, Mill unveiled its second-generation appliance, one year after introducing its high-tech food waste bin (don’t call it a composter!). The news comes as the company reaches ten thousand...
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Florida Bill Banning Cultivated Meat On Its Way to DeSantis’s Desk
Selling cultivated meat in Florida is about to become a second-degree misdemeanor. That’s because this week, the Florida legislature voted to pass a bill restricting the commercial sale of meat grown...
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Bellwether Debuts Small-Format, Countertop Electric Coffee Roaster for $15...
Today Bellwether Coffee announced its latest electric, ventless coffee roasting machine, The Bellwether Shop Roaster. The new roaster, which is the company’s third-generation electric roasting...
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Why a Small Startup in the Middle of Valencia May Be Leading the Wireless...
About a decade ago, IKEA famously released a concept video laying out its vision for the kitchen of the future. The central concept for their envisioned future kitchen was a kitchen table that not...
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Announcing The Food AI Co-Lab, a New Collaboration Between The Spoon & Future...
If there was one thing we learned when we held the first-ever Food AI Summit last October, it is that pretty much every food company believes their business will fundamentally change due to artificial...
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