Market Failure or Slow Transition? Lessons in Cottage Cheese
Since 2019, the public health and food innovation spaces have focused on increasing protein consumption. We can pinpoint some of this obsession to the rise …
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Healthier Food Through Gene Editing
Innovations in agriculture focus on every facet of producing a crop, from developing hardier varieties to higher yields and better disease resistance to increased nutrition. …
Nutrition Hacks and the Protein Obsession
By 2050, we are expected to globally consume twice the protein we currently do. Through various blogs on SAIFood, we have been tracking the growing …
The Plant-Based Commitment
Can plant-based survive if the market stays the same? Independent of where you source it, protein is becoming an increasingly demanded product. Whether you are …
Hap-pea Planet: Pulsing with Vegetarian Opportunity?
The last few years have been a vegetarian’s playground. With the availability of new plant-based options and increased media attention to meatless recipes, it is …
Meatless Meats: The Name Game
By Rikki-Jean Wilson, University of Saskatchewan Move over cow-less milk and sugarless sugar; a new trend is taking the modern world by storm, “meatless meats” …
Plant-Based Protein: What are the myths?
By Brock Thomson University of Saskatchewan Student New markets may be key to Canadian canola success Plant-based protein is a growing trend in the food …
You’re already eating a plant protein diet
Kicking it off with plant protein When it comes to protein, meat might be the thing you think of after all meat is the “King …
Starting at ‘A’ in Understanding Proteins: Amino Acids
Building proteins from amino acids I never thought I would be writing about the ‘building blocks’ of the human body, amino acids (AA) for a …
Deficient in Understanding Proteins?
Protein, protein, protein everywhere! In the last year, it is official, the inclusion of a seemingly new nutritional and agricultural buzzword: PROTEIN. As we are …