Dairy Alternatives

RSS

The Microsetta Initiative, a research project led by a team at the University of California, San Diego, in partnership with Danone Nutricia Research — the research and innovation division of Danone North America's global parent company, Danone S.A. — is recruiting hundreds of U.S. citizen scientists to map their gut microbiome.

Danone North America, in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), announced a unique multi-year agreement aimed at improving the economic resiliency and soil health of farms, including those within Danone North America’s supply chain.

The global plant-based protein market was estimated to be valued at USD $18.5 billion in 2019 and is likely to reach USD $40.6 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 14% during the forecast period, according to a new report offered by ResearchandMarkets.com, Dublin.

Innova Market Insights, Arnhem, the Netherlands, said “The Plant Based Revolution” is No. 2 of the top 10 food and beverage trends it is highlighting for 2020.

During the course of the past decade, the American yogurt category has grown to approximately $8 billion. Danone North America, White Plains, N.Y., said it conducted a review of total dollar sales for all of the innovations launched across the entire yogurt category between 2010 and 2019, and its Light & Fit Greek yogurt earned the top spot as the best-selling yogurt innovation of the decade (factoring in both dairy- and plant-based innovations).