Notes on alternative proteins, palatability and the petfood industry, from our desk.
Palatability | August 12, 2026
Protein research dominates alternative protein development, but fat is the only nutrient that carries its own timestamp, and animals read it.
Palatability | August 6, 2026
A legume may provide the vocabulary of nutrition. Meat provides the grammar of recognition, and species identity lives in the phospholipids.
Palatability | July 30, 2026
Why the cat at the bowl is not smelling meat. It is smelling a fresh kill, and the single molecule that tells it so is one the flavour industry has spent twenty-five years trying to bottle.
Palatability | July 24, 2026
Five questions about what animals actually recognise as food, and why we keep measuring the wrong thing.
Alternative Proteins | July 22, 2026
Eight lessons from ninety minutes of football, for a movement that mistook fundraising for progress, and forgot the crowd.
Events | May 22, 2026
Five commercial milestones in ten days pushed alternative proteins from a sustainability side-conversation to a named, dated product category inside the USD 140 billion pet-food market.
Analysis | May 4, 2026
More than 40 alternative protein ventures shuttered or merged between late 2024 and early 2026. An analysis of the structural failures, and what might actually work.
Speaking | June 3, 2025
Our CEO spoke at re:publica 2025 in Berlin on transforming African diaspora remittances from “Black Tax” to “Business Capital”.
Interview | April 23, 2025
This article was first published on https://zest-project.eu/interview-10-questions-for-sinonin-biotech/ This section seeks to introduce each beneficiary, explain their sector, and describe their...
Events | April 23, 2025
When I learnt about a Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH programme called hashtag#WIDUAfrica, I didn’t know it was going to take me this far. I was merely driving...
Events | October 3, 2024
The #ZESTProject, co-funded by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) initiative, has kicked-off!! Learn more about this new four-year project undertaken by twelve partners from...
The #ZESTProject held its first executive board meeting last Monday. During this hour-long online gathering, representatives from the organisations that support the European initiative went...
Our CEO Visited the WIDU.africa programme HQ and had a sit-down with the Kenya Cordinator, Fridah Kibuko
Interview | January 30, 2023
Full Interview here A seasoned protein chemist and serial entrepreneur, Dr Seronei Chelulei Cheison has invaluable experience in the pet food industry where he worked for MARS Petcare and led...
Insects | January 30, 2023
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) approved a fourth insect early January vide the Regulation 2023/58 authorising the placement of frozen, paste, dried and powder forms of (Alphitobius...
Insects | December 11, 2022
Eight important insect species used in producing meals to replace fishmeal in aquafeeds. 1. Silkworms (Bombyx mori), 2. Black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens), 3. Housefly (Musca domestica), 4....
Insects | October 15, 2022
Resource requirements by insects and farm animals Everything comes down to the cost of inputs vs the benefits obtained from the outputs. Farm animals require feed and water, That feed is grown or...
Insects | October 3, 2022
To appreciate the role of insects in a circular economy, we probably should start by defining what “circular economy” is. “A circular economy is defined as an alternative to the current linear...
Alternative Proteins | October 3, 2022
A growing global population, combined with factors such as changing socio-demographics, will place increased pressure on the world’s resources to provide not only more but also different types of...
Technology | October 3, 2022
The other day I was asking for some specific fermentation products for a customer. Some of the answers I received pointed me to bioreactor products attempting tp produce animal and plant proteins...
