Southwest Veggie Slider features a crispy brown rice crust and a savory blend of six vegetables seasoned with smoky chipotle and sweet barbecue flavors and served on a slider bun with a slice of jalapeno cheese.
In response to feedback from White Castle's customer base, the company's innovation team chooses to use a Dr. Praeger’s veggie patty as the base for the Southwest Veggie Slider.
Backed by early investors of Oatly, Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, Oshi receives an investment from one of Latin America’s largest seafood manufacturers.
Plant-meat blends that can meet the flavor and texture benchmarks and are target-marketed offer a consumer-attractive health and sustainability halo, as well as opportunities to lower costs and increase margins.
Following years of rapid growth and strong investment, the plant-based meat category is entering a new phase: one less defined by novelty and more by performance.
As sales decline, plant-based meat producers are focusing on everyday use cases, improved product quality and transparent ingredient panels to drive repeat purchases.
Starting in 2026, the company behind TiNDLE Chicken will double down on B2B partnerships, moving to accelerate plant-based food adoption across Europe.