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With Easter just a few days away, shoppers will be shelling out more for sweets than they have in years’ past. This year’s holiday has become one of the most egg-spensive yet (sorry, we had to). 

Soaring egg prices have been weighing heavily on consumers for months, and cocoa prices have curbed innovation in the CPG category more than a year now. Although a brief respite in egg prices last month allowed producers to reduce some shortages, newly released data from the Consumer Price Index suggests a return to “normal” is still a ways away. 

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Sichuan-sourced sauce and noodle brand Hotpot Queen is halting all future purchase orders to its manufacturer after Trump raised the tariff rate on China-sourced goods to 245% on Wednesday. 

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The Organic Consumers Association and GMO/Toxin Free USA filed a suit against Perfect Day alleging its precision fermentation-derived “Animal Free” whey product – ProFerm – is not “even remotely similar to cow's whey or milk,” running counter to the company’s marketing claims.

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This week, the podcast team is discussing a pair of functional beverage funding rounds and tackling the topic of vertical farming.

🥤 What do Culture Pop and Ryl Tea have in common? Both brands raked in about $15 million to support significant expansion plans this year.

🥬 Vertical farming has seemingly struggled to live up to the hype and heaps of cash flowing to the sector in its early days. The team digs into how startups are refocusing now that funding has dried up.

Click here to listen to this week’s episode. Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.