Cultivated seaweed is now a 35.8-million-tonne, $20-billion global industry — 97% farmed, $780M of dedicated venture capital deployed, and institutional capital aligned.

How a 1978 sample of pondweed slime became E418, and what gellan gum's industrial origin reveals about the limits of clean-label.

RTD stabilization now has a different solution to the multi-ingredient additive stack: an ingredient designed end-to-end from a single feedstock.

When each RTD coffee stabilizer does, where each one breaks, and whether the stack still needs to be a stack.

From clean-label deadlines to the protein reformulation bottleneck - five trends that kept coming up across seven trade shows.

Most high-protein RTD stabilizer systems were designed for 15–20g protein. At 30g+, gum stacks fail. SeaTex offers a single-ingredient alternative.