As the era of cultivated seafood nears mainstream viability between 2026 and 2028, Vietnam is making sure it gets a slice of the biotech action. Seafood grown in bioreactors , closed, industrial fermentation-style systems, offers a premium, contaminant-free product sidestepping health and environmental risks tied to ocean capture and pond culture. The technology also promises more resilient supply chains by enabling production near urban centres.

New neuroimaging data has intensified scrutiny of ultra-processed foods (UPF), particularly formulations heavy in emulsifiers, flavour systems, and structural additives. Crucially, UPFs span all categories, meat, dairy, snacks, beverages, and plant-based alike. Yet public discourse increasingly frames the issue as a plant-based failure, rather than an industrial food-system problem.

Australia’s 2025 food signals point to a structural shift rather than a trend cycle. Pureprofile’s national social-insights model highlights a population leaning hard into provenance, local sovereignty, plant-forward living, and an AI-enabled reimagining of product development. Traditional narratives of “premium imports” are being displaced by identity-led consumption treating food as cultural expression, not just nutrition. Australia isn’t waiting for permission, it’s invent

The Top 20 food-tech companies identified here demonstrate a global move away from “alternative protein” novelty and toward industrial-grade food architecture. This is the beginning of a new supply-chain model.

Norway’s Katapult Ocean has officially invested in Atlantic Fish Co, adding financial weight and strategic validation to a cultivated-fish player developing whole-cut whitefish fillets using fish-cell lines and structured scaffolding. This is a notable signal: a major seafood nation, not just a VC group, is beginning to position itself inside the cell-based seafood ecosystem. The investment also gives Atlantic Fish Co access to Nordic research capability, aquaculture expertis