Eat For The Planet

This episode features Christian Chamberlin from EFFECT Partners, a social change incubator that brings culture and business together to solve social and environmental challenges. Nil Zacharias has joined EFFECT as Partner and Head of Food Systems Innovation! More details here: https://eftp.co/effectpartners

MamaSezz is a food company that makes meal-time easy with whole food plant-based staples to help you eat healthy at home. MamaSezz does all the shopping, chopping, and cooking for you so you can get all the nutritious benefits without all the work... and they deliver it right to your door. MamaSezz Meal Bundles come with support and nutrition education to give people the tools they need to eat, look and feel great. Learn more at https://eftp.co/mamasezz

Plantega is a unique food access initiative and distribution platform for plant based food. We have launched as a 3-month pilot in 3 independent corner stores (better known as bodegas in NYC) located in underserved communities. We are bringing products from some of the biggest plant-based brands, including Beyond Meat®, Eat Just, Good Catch, Miyoko’s, No Evil Foods, Follow Your Heart, Lupii, Pan’s Mushroom Jerky, nutpods, Hälsa Foods and Tofurky. Learn more at...

Renewal Mill is a next-generation ingredient company that fights climate change and global food loss by upcycling byproducts from food manufacturing into premium ingredients and products. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/renewal-mill Learn how Eat For The Planet can help your brand: https://eftp.co/services

This episode features Isabelle Steichen, the co-founder and CEO of Lupii. Lupii makes tasty, sustainable, plant-based fuel that will keep you running like a boss. Whether you're vegetarian, vegan, or just plain awesome—eating Lupii is the perfect way to nourish your body while making mama nature proud in the process. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/lupii Learn how Eat For The Planet can help your brand: https://eftp.co/services

This episode features Sadrah Schadel and Mike Woliansky, the co-founders of No Evil Foods, a company focused on impacting environmental sustainability, public health, and animal welfare through better food choices and offers a range of texture-rich and nutrient-dense Plant Meats made from organic & Non-GMO ingredients, sold nationwide in 100% compostable cartons. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/no-evil-foods-2 Learn how Eat For The Planet can help your brand:...

Madeline Haydon is the Founder and CEO of nutpods, the first food brand from Green Grass Foods Inc., an independent, natural foods manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to introducing dairy-free products from plant-based ingredients. Introduced in 2015, nutpods quickly found a loyal consumer base with vegan, vegetarian, Whole30, paleo, and keto consumers who appreciate a high quality, plant-based creamer in their coffee and tea. nutpods is sold at retail locations nationwide...

Dan Gluck is a Managing Partner at Powerplant Ventures (“PPV”) and current Board Member of PPV portfolio companies, Your Super, Rebbl, Thistle and Jot Coffee. Powerplant Ventures is a growth equity fund investing in emerging consumer food, beverage, foodservice and food-tech companies. PPV provides capital, strategic guidance and operating expertise to visionary teams leading disruptive plant-centric brands. Notable portfolio companies include breakout brands such as Beyond Meat, Ripple...

Miyoko Schinner is the fearless CEO/founder of Miyoko’s, a food brand combining culinary traditions with food technology to revolutionize dairy by making cheese and butter without cows. Through an innovative proprietary process that merges food science with old-world creamery methods, Schinner has successfully scaled the production of fermented cheese and cultured butter made from plants. Under Schinner’s visionary leadership, Miyoko’s has replaced animal-dairy products on the shelves of...

Hälsa Foods stands for healthier people and planet. The company was founded by Helena Lumme and Mika Manninen on their innovation of the new 100% clean plant-based platform. Hälsa makes America's only oat milk yogurt made from whole grain oats and the world's first dairy-free yogurt without a single artificial ingredient. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/halsa Learn how Eat For The Planet can help your brand: https://eftp.co/services Twitter: @nilzach

Before the Butcher offers the market’s broadest choice of meat alternatives for the growing number of consumers who are reducing their consumption of meat products. The company’s UNCUT brand of plant meat is sold through both retail and foodservice channels. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/before-the-butcher Learn how Eat For The Planet can help your brand: https://eftp.co/services Twitter: @nilzach

Founded by Jacob Pechenik and Zooey Deschanel, Lettuce Grow is on a mission to bring much-needed change to our food system and help people use fewer resources by growing healthier food at home. Lettuce Grow's self-watering, self-fertilizing hydroponic Farmstands are vertical vegetable gardens made from ocean-bound recycled plastic that make it easy and fun for everyone to grow fresh food, no matter their gardening knowledge or background. Lettuce Grow’s Farmstands provide a serious harvest...

Meatless for all is the mission of Rebellyous Foods. The Rebellyous team is designing new equipment and processes to make better tasting, more affordable plant-based meat so that people anywhere – and on any budget – can have delicious, plant-based meat that is better for them, better for the planet, and better for animals. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/rebellyous Learn how Eat For The Planet can help your brand: https://eftp.co/services Twitter: @nilzach

Sara Cullen is the founder of GEM, an algae-based science company working to simplify daily health habits. GEM makes real food products that optimize daily nutrition. Sara has a BS in international agricultural development studies from Cornell University and has worked with women entrepreneurs and farmers in sustainable food networks all over the world, from Morocco and Kenya to India and Vietnam. As a 2x entrepreneur in the food & beverage world and a former Venture for America Fellow, Sara...

Robby Barbaro, MPH is co-founder of Mastering Diabetes and co-author of Mastering Diabetes. He is a diabetes coach, educator, and international speaker who has been living with type 1 diabetes for more than twenty years. Since 2006, Robby has used an evidence-based approach to his personal health and fitness, built on a foundation of low-fat, plant-based, whole-food nutrition. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/mastering-diabetes Learn how Eat For The Planet can help your brand:...

Tyler Mayoras has over 20 years of private equity investing experience and is currently the Co-Manager of the $155 million Advantage Capital Food & Ag Fund. Mr. Mayoras invests in and helps scale growing food and agriculture companies. He is involved with portfolio companies Shenandoah Growers, Farmhouse Culture, Snaxsational Brands and NurturMe. Mr. Mayoras is also an angel investor with a focus on sustainable brands including Simple Mills, Tiesta Tea, EVR Foods (Lavva), Spero Foods and CB...

AKUA creates carbon-negative foods made from ocean-farmed seagreens that are healthy and healing for our planet. The company believes food should be nourishing for humans, the environment, and have a positive impact on local communities. Launched in 2019, Kelp Jerky is AKUA's first product, a high-protein, soy-free snack which won a spot on Time Magazine's Inventions of the Year list. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/akua Learn how Eat For The Planet can help your brand:...

Dream Pops is re-imagining ice cream for the next generation. Their plant-based frozen bars are less than 100 calories, less than 5g of total sugar and are powered by superfoods and adaptogens. Dream Pops believes that the next frontier in snacking is functional frozen - and that the freezer aisle was in dire need of an upgrade. More about this episode: https://eftp.co/dream-pops Learn how Eat For The Planet can help your brand: https://eftp.co/services Twitter: @nilzach

Rebecca Amis and Jeff King run MUSE Global, an international education system offering effective, innovative, and passion-based learning experiences within a plant-based, sustainable environment. Founded in 2006 by sisters Suzy Amis Cameron and Rebecca Amis, the flagship MUSE School in Calabasas quickly grew to two campuses, now with over 200 students. In the summer of 2018, MUSE Global was born – an international franchise model dedicated to sharing its vision of inspiring and preparing our...

TurtleTree Labs is the first biotech company in the world with the ability to create milk from all mammals. Using their proprietary cell-based methods, they will shape the future of not just how we get dairy milk but how humans will feed their infants. To maximize impact, the team will work with industry leaders to adopt their sustainable and safe methods to create milk. TurtleTree Labs is able to have a 98% reduction in carbon footprint and as a result will help to save the world by...