Looking Forward: The top 3 FoodTech Trends to Spot in 2020
Working in the FoodTech industry never gets old. It seems that with every minute that goes by, something new is [...]
How to create FoodTech success in 2020 and beyond?
The secret recipe for creating the future of food & foodtech (Hint: it goes well beyond innovation) I wrote this [...]
FoodTech 500 finalists: 2019’s list
The World’s First FoodTech 500 finalists revealed A selection of FoodTech 500 finalists — to access the full list visit forwardfooding.com/foodtech500 [...]
Forward Fooding Announce New Partnership
We’re excited to introduce to you the Future of Food Series! Forward Fooding and Thought For Food both believe in [...]
Bottling Goodness — Making Food Tastier
Succulento sauces are delicious and lovely; from their Citrussy Carrot Ketchup to their Savoury Curry Sauce, their range of flavours [...]
A Bite Of Italy, From The Heart of Cirencester
The UK’s food scene is becoming increasingly diverse and multicultural; as the fusion of different cuisines enters into all aspects [...]
Chocolate Just Got Tastier: Meet Abundance Foods
Here at Forward Fooding, we believe in a lot of things. The importance of sustainability in the food ecosystem. That [...]
Flat Earth Pizzas — A Conspiracy You’ll Want To Believe In
What is Flat Earth Pizza? With certain stable foods, there’s a tendency to stop dreaming up ways to change and [...]
Shake Up Your Life With Twisted Kombucha
For many start-up journeys, it all begins with a leap of faith into the unknown…but perhaps none were so dramatic [...]
Mad About Nuts as Food? Meet NutMad
Here at Forward Fooding, we’re always meeting up with start-ups trying to be ahead of the game, futuristic in their [...]
The new restaurant: Kiss My Grass
Kiss My Grass Question 1: What’s your 30-second elevator pitch for your company, to explain it to someone who’s never heard [...]
Beef Isn’t All Bad — Why Biltong Should Still Be On Your Snack Radar
2019 has seen a radical shift towards meatlessness — here in the Forward Fooding journalism department, we’ve covered Sainsbury’s introduction of [...]
Over The Moonji — Here’s The Scoop on Healthy Ice Cream
Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for…Moonji! Ice cream is one of the oldest indulgences, dating all the way [...]
Snacking Of The Future — Fruit Snacks
For years, snacking was the enemy. From fizzy drinks, salty crisps, to sugary candy, snacks have gotten a bad wrap [...]
Venitin Foods — Vegan Catering For Every Occassion
The number of vegans in Britain has doubled twice in the past four years; with the ever-growing consumer demand, the [...]
The Bare Nutcessity Of Life
Here at Forward Fooding, we’re food nuts, and nuts about food. That’s why, when we heard about Nutcessity, a premium [...]
Energy Shots To Start Your Day Kicking
As the days are getting longer and colder, the seasonal snuffles and sickness is right around the corner. But a [...]
Vegan, Gluten-Free, AND Refined-Sugar Free?
In the UK, 1 in every 10 people avoid gluten — that’s almost 7 million people. And we can guarantee that none [...]
Report: UK FoodTech ecosystem
The UK FoodTech ecosystem is seeing steady growth. Through overcoming certain obstacles, it has the potential to cement itself as [...]
Vegan Treats: A Humble Gem Nestled
Here at Forward Fooding, sometimes we come across a start-up who just radiates positivity and care. That’s what it was [...]
Investor Report — Top 5 of the week (August)
If you aren’t already aware the FoodTech industry is booming. With over 3,300 actors listed on Forward Fooding’s FoodTech Data Navigator and that [...]
Miss TeaSmith — Sri Lankan tea
Here at Forward Fooding, we work with a number of start-ups who are committed to bringing the tastes of the [...]
Cakey Love — Because It’s Always Afternoon Somewhere
Cakey Love — possibly the most self-explanatory name for a start-up we’ve come across, but cake’s not all their passionate [...]
A taste of Buenos Aires with every product
Sharing food is one of the most core aspects of human life. Food brings people together and makes them happy, [...]
Halal Delivery Straight To Your Door
Here at Forward Fooding, we recognise diversity in diet, from intolerances, preferences, to religion. Everyone should have access to delicious [...]
FIT DELIS — Ticking Every Box products
Shakes are truly running the world in 2019; as people become busier and busier, there’s a need to be able [...]
Bumblezest! One Sip At A Time
Bumblezest! Shaking Up The Industry, One Sip At A Time The drinks industry has been under scrutiny this past year; as [...]
Taking Food Back To Nature: Hunter & Gather
It’s no secret that within the world of food, there are a lot of secrets. From ingredients to origins, consumers [...]
Sustainable Kitchen: The Transformation Every Restaurant Needs
One of the major challenges faced by businesses is the rapid requirement to keep up with the changing tastes and [...]
Plant based Meat: A necessity and not a choice?
As a collective group we are witnessing turning points in history during this age of technology and mass information, the [...]
The Real Wine Gum: Is This The Future Of Alcohol?
When we heard about Real Wine Gums here at Forward Fooding, we couldn’t help but be excited. From the cosmopolitain [...]
Millo: The Blender As You’ve Never Seen It Before
It can be easy, when you’ve used a product for years, to cease to question it. Not for Millo. They [...]
Need For Sead! The Sesame Butter You Need To Try
Sead were one of our top start-ups to watch from the 2019 Just V Show; their chocolate sesame butter has to be [...]
Good Books, Good Food: Favourite Reads
It’s Book Lovers Day, and here at Forward Fooding, we’re not just about devouring delicious food, we’re also avid bibliophiles [...]
The Future of Food in the United Kingdom
Current figures related to the UK’s food supply chain are easy for no-deal Brexiteers to misconstrue as representative of a [...]
MOMA — The perfect breakfast
For those of you who don’t know, MOMA stands for Making Oats More Awesome. And as a company, they’ve truly delivered [...]
The First Guilt-Free Chocolate — An Interview with PlayInChoc
Having chocolate is an indulgence for adults and a treat for kids; but what if there was a way to [...]
After-Work Drinks in The Year 2050
It’s a Thursday night in the year 2050. While the drinks industry had tried to tackle the growing interest in [...]
What it means to be a Woman in Tech
I never imagined I’d end up working in Tech. But now here I am sitting here writing an article on [...]
Is meat a dead industry?!
The last few years have seen a range of meat alternatives evolving, each aiming to challenge the multi-billion-dollar meat industry. [...]
Danone leading by example and looking to the future
The new AgriFoodTech coalition ‘Farming for Generations’ A group of leading AgriFoodTech companies, led by Danone, has formed a coalition dubbed [...]
Marketing The East For The West
Guruji. When we spoke to Akhil, Benjamin, and Karan, the minds behind the new lotus seed superfood snack, their focus [...]
Top Tips from Groovy Guruji
When Forward Fooding spoke to Guruji, a funky company who’ve brought tasty lotus seeds from India and given them a westernized [...]
Set-Backs, Success, and Seeds: Meet Guruji
When I first arrived at Forward Fooding, we’d just received a batch of Guruji’s sea salt and cacao popped lotus [...]
Women In the Food Industry
Here at Forward Fooding, we thrive on collaboration, and strive for equality. It was therefore a genuine honour to be able [...]
FoodTech Investor Report — The Top 5
The Top 5 FoodTech StartUps of the week — 22nd July 2019 If you aren’t already aware the FoodTech industry [...]
CRU8’s is the Pilgrimage Spot for All Things Raw
Forward Fooding were delighted to be invited to visit CRU8’s Deli, a veritable treasure nestled in the heart of Chelsea’s infamous [...]
An Empowering Chat With Female Startup Founders
Women currently own 36% of startup businesses; whilst that’s a staggering 30% increase from 2007, it still poses the question [...]
Packaging Is The Crucial Ingredient of Food Startups
It doesn’t matter how your food tastes. It doesn’t matter whether your ingredients are vegan, or organic, or gluten-free. It [...]
Physical VS Digital product in the Start-Up Space
When it comes to a product, the marketing, research, and success are measured and conducted in vastly different ways depending [...]
A Garden On Your Kitchen Counter
As the world moves towards improved sustainable and healthy living, one of the key concerns for the consumer is where [...]
Amaize-ing! How Peru’s Purple-Corn Wonder-Drink Is About To Shake Up The Drinks Market
Here at Forward Fooding, we like to stay one step ahead of the drinks industry at all times. But this [...]
A Historic Rise — Beyond Meat’s IPO
If you are still unaware of Beyond Meat and their sky-rocketing shares, you are clearly out of the loop, but [...]
Collaboration is Key: FoodSay — A Tale of Two Startups
It was predicted in that 2018 would be the year food startups would bloom, and they kept their promise. With the [...]
From City to Startup
Of the 400 million entrepreneurs globally, 95.1% have a bachelor’s degree, and 75.4% have worked in other companies for 6 [...]
Our Top Startups from London’s ‘Just V Show’
On Friday 5th July, Forward Fooding headed over to London Olympia’s ‘Just V Show’, a show which brings together vegans [...]
The vital importance of Startup relationships and events
Attending London Olympia’s ‘Just V Show’ this past weekend, Forward Fooding were able to meet and greet with some of [...]
18 months in the Italian (FoodTech) startup ecosystem – Part 1
About one and a half years ago, and after 7 years in foggy London, I followed my partner and moved [...]
18 months in the Italian (FoodTech) startup ecosystem— Part 2
After looking into the Italian startup ecosystem overall in the first part of this article, let zoom into what matters to us [...]
Almond: Save The Planet in an App
Forward Fooding met up with Oliver Bolton, CEO of Almond.org, to discuss his app which will radicalise and refurbish the [...]
An interview with Foraging Fox
Behind every food start-up is a story…but just how important is the journey behind a product to the consumer? Frankie [...]
Samsung invests in the future of farming with UK startup Herdsy
Global tech giant Samsung paves the way for AgriFoodTech corp/startup collaboration Herdsy — leading the herd in AgriFoodTech corporate startup [...]
Meet the Meat — A Look Inside The First Meat-Free Butcher
Sainsbury’s took one giant leap for vegan-kind this morning with the opening of the UK’s first ‘Meat-Free Butcher’. Here’s a [...]
Top 5 FoodTech Startups
It is hard to navigate through the growing and rapidly moving FoodTech scene. Who and what is relevant? Where are [...]
Does Sainsbury’s introduction of the first meat-free butchers mark the beginning of the end for the meat industry?
Sainsbury’s first foray into Meat-Free Butchery Were you to stroll down Bethnal Green this coming weekend, you would be met [...]
AgTech vs FoodTech
FoodTech? AgTech? AgriFoodTech? What do they all mean? The food industry is booming. The last 5 years have seen an exponential [...]
How collaborative data is transforming FoodTech
FoodTech Data Navigator by Forward Fooding Forward Fooding demonstrates how Collaborative Data is the new tool shaping the [...]
What are the UK investment trends shaping FoodTech?
Find out in AgFunder’s 2018 Europe Agri FoodTech Investing Report With over $1.6bn invested in AgriFoodTech in 2018, the newly [...]
FoodTech Data Navigator launch by Forward Fooding
It’s here, this week is the launch of our NEW FoodTech Data Navigator! We bring you the key highlights of [...]
Our definition of Food Tech
Why do people keep talking about Food Tech and why is it so important? What's the definition of Food Tech? [...]
My Chinese takeaways: what’s hot in China?
Last month I flew to Shanghai to join FBIF 2019 Food and Beverage Innovation Forum in Hangzhou. A little over 10 years [...]
Can collaboration help you avoid future collapse?
Could Debenhams have survived? Was there another way? Thinking about their future... This week Debenhams went into administration. A sad [...]
Making the Impossible possible: going vegan
If you were to tell me that Burger King were launching a vegan whopper I’d probably laugh at you. Especially [...]
How to make shift happen
When you’re in a big business you have established ways and means of getting things done. Things are structured. There’s [...]
Lesley Bambridge joins Forward Fooding as CMO
Lesley Bambridge, Forward Fooding CMO We are thrilled to announce that this week Lesley Bambridge joins the Forward Fooding team [...]
The hottest food trends of 2019 in Europe
From ghost restaurants through CBD-based products to clean labels, I think the European food market is going to bring us [...]
Are startups too Big to Change the World?
In 2015, a few days before Christmas Eve, the Belgian population awoke to much gloomy news: the whole country was [...]
Packaging Tomorrow’s World Today
Packaging Tomorrow’s World Today Packaging is not a joke... We live in a world with a man-made garbage patch twice the [...]
Edible Insects Market
It still sounds funny to so many people when I say it, but in a few years, we all probably [...]
Digital Marketing for (food) entrepreneurs
On November 28th 2018, we hosted Mehdi El Azhari, CEO of the leading digital marketing platform, HyperCrunch. Mehdi delivered a [...]
