Aqua Cultured Foods develops fish-free seafood products using fermentation technology.

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Eat your heart out. AQUA makes seafood safe again.

Fins down, AQUA is earth’s most exciting fermentation-enabled fiber. While AQUA seafood looks like fish, tastes like fish, and feels like fish––it's 100% fish-free. We hyper-control the growing environment so every morsel of tuna, scallop, squid, and shellfish is flawless––and forever available to feed billions of seafoodies.

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Tomorrow is the last day to vote for AQUA for the 2024 Industry Disrupter Award! 🗳 

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Please join me in October for the Bridge2Food North America summit where I'll be presenting AQUA's insights on “What's The Positioning of Alternative Seafood to Consumers?”, and also speaking on “What Role Do Chefs Play in the Uptake of Alternative Protein?” panel with Philip Saneski, John Van House and Erik Jones. 

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We are so honored to be a finalist for The Industry Disrupter Award for the 2024 Momentum Awards hosted by 1871! 🎉 

This award will be presented to a company that has developed an innovative product that has significantly disrupted the industry. Decisions come from a combination of judge score and public vote. 🤞 

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Big news! AQUA has achieved self-affirmed generally recognized as safe ("GRAS") status for our fish-free seafood made through fermentation. This is a huge milestone for our team and the alternative protein industry. Now, we're ready to make a splash on restaurant menus in the U.S.!

💙 Hope in the Water 🌊 

Last night, I had the honor to attend the screening for the new docuseries 'Hope in the Water,' a 3-part series coming to PBS on June 19 that takes a closer look at the blue food technology solutions that can feed our growing global population while saving our oceans.

The series doesn't shy away from the stress we're putting on our seas to supply seafood, nor from the impact that industrial fishing is having on our oceans. It features that great work that innovators in aquaculture and fishers are doing to lessen the impact on our oceans, but I feel a key component is missing from the conversation -- the work that alternative seafood companies are doing to offer a solution to this problem. 

At AQUA, we're not trying to replace seafood, nor tell consumers what they should or shouldn't eat. We exist to offer a seafood solution without compromise. A solution that satisfies your seafoodie cravings with the added benefit of making a more sustainable choice. 

We won't change consumer behaviors by preaching, blaming or shaming; but for consumers looking for healthful, sustainable swaps, we can offer endless helpings of hope through delicious seafood that is neither fished nor farmed. 

I believe it will take all parties - traditional fishing, aquaculture and seafood alternatives - working together if we're to achieve the lofty goal of reviving our oceans.

The key takeaway of the night for me was said best by the series executive producer Andrew Zimmern, "It is the stories of hopefulness that inspires." I couldn't agree more. My hope is that we continue to have broader conversations about the health of our oceans and inspire change through the great work of all innovators offering blue food tech solutions.

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We are honored to be a founding member of Future Ocean Foods alongside 34 other companies making waves internationally! 🌊

Led by Marissa Bronfman, AQUA is beyond excited to collectively accelerate the alternative seafood industry to promote food security, human health, environmental sustainability, and ocean conservation.

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Eat your heart out. AQUA makes seafood safe.
Fins down, AQUA is earth’s most exciting fermentation-enabled protein. While AQUA seafood looks like fish, tastes like fish, and feels like fish––it’s 100% fish-free. We hyper-control the growing environment so every morsel of tuna, scallop, squid, and shellfish is flawless––and forever available to feed billions of seafoodies.

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Low capex approach enables Aqua Cultured Foods to make alt seafood at or below price parity, ‘even at pilot scale’

AQUA Cultured Foods’ Fermented Fish-Free Seafood Receives GRAS Allowing Sale in US

Big News! AQUA Cultured Foods Achieves GRAS Status for Fish-Free Seafood

Exclusive: Aqua Cultured Foods Earns US Regulatory Approval for Fish-Free Fermentation-Based Seafood

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Fish-free seafood could land in Chicago restaurants soon

Aqua Cultured Foods Partners with Ginkgo Bioworks To Elevate Scallop and Tuna Alternatives

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AQUA Cultured Foods produces fish-free tuna using fermentation, designed to replicate the taste and texture of traditional tuna without using fish.

This product is a shrimp alternative created through fermentation to mimic the flavor and texture of real shrimp, without using any animal products.

Developed using fermentation, these scallops aim to offer the same culinary experience as traditional scallops but are completely plant-based.

AQUA offers minced fillings for use in dishes like dumplings, ravioli, and sushi rolls, made from their proprietary fermentation process.

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