Giving Compass' Take:

• TriplePundit highlights 12 plant-based foods coming to market in 2019, some emerging from new companies and some with familiar names who are taking a more healthy and sustainable approach. 

• With vegan and vegetarian meat substitutes gaining popularity, how will this effect the eventual quality of the product? How will this impact the agricultural and meat industries? 

• Here's why 2019 will be the year alternative meat products go mainstream.

With the global population set to reach 10 billion by 2050, current levels of meat consumption are “incompatible with keeping global temperatures from rising more than 2 (let alone 1.5) degrees Celsius,” the World Economic Forum concluded in a new report, as quoted by Food Dive.

“The past few years have been all about captivating audiences with anticipation of these products,” Mike Lee, co-CEO of Alpha Food Labs, a platform for launching healthy and sustainable food companies, told Forbes in December. “In the next two years, it’ll be all about getting to market.” Here are a few standouts, coming soon to restaurants and grocery shelves near you.

  1. The Impossible Burger is coming to grocery stores
  2. Beyond Meat triples production capacity in advance of likely IPO
  3. Good Catch brings vegan seafood to store shelves
  4. Califia Farms brings oat milk to market
  5. Purple Carrot set to double in size this year
  6. Chobani goes dairy-free
  7. Starbucks releases new vegan milks
  8. Taco Bell tests vegetarian menu
  9. Carl’s Jr. releases vegan burger in the U.S.
  10. McDonald’s flirts with plant-based foods
  11. Nestlé eyes the vegan market
  12. Unilever embraces plant-based foods through M&A

Read the full article on these 12 plant-based foods coming to market in 2019 by Mary Mazzoni at TriplePundit