‘Future of Food’ exhibition opens at the Science Museum
Clean Food Group, a leading UK food tech business, manufacturing sustainable oils and fats through fermentation, announces that the Group is pleased to be exhibiting at the Science Museum’s Future of Food exhibition which opens in London today.
Open from 24 July 2025 until 4 January 2026, Future of Food is a free exhibition which invites visitors of all ages to explore and think about the history of global food production and the potential future routes to more sustainable food systems. More than 100 historic and contemporary objects from over 3,500 years will be on exhibit, revealing how human stories, technology and climate have shaped our food consumption patterns of the past and how innovation by scientists, food producers and global communities will shape the future of our industrial food systems.
CFG’s exhibit includes a live Bioreactor, illustrating how Metschnikowia pulcherrima, a yeast found on vine leaves and grapes around the world, can be fermented to make a sustainable version of palm oil. CFG’s exhibition will also feature its first ever prototype foods, including chocolate, peanut butter and cakes, which contain CFG’s yeast-made ‘palm’ oil.
CFG produces sustainable oils and fats for the food, cosmetics, and pet food industries using its proprietary CLEAN OilCell™ technology. Instead of growing crops, CFG ferments a non-GMO yeast fed on food industry waste, such as surplus bread, to create high-quality oils and fats. The Group’s products act as drop-in replacements for palm, soybean, and cocoa butter alternatives, matching their performance and price. By upcycling waste and avoiding deforestation linked agriculture, CFG offers a local, circular, and scalable solution that meets growing demand for environmentally responsible, traceable ingredients without compromising on quality or cost.
Professor Chris Chuck, Technical Lead and Co-Founder of CFG, said: “I am delighted that we are participating in the Science Museum’s Future of Food exhibition which opens today. We have witnessed some incredible stories, items and innovations that have driven historic food production and can see how innovation, technological inventions and passion will drive the future of food as we look for a more sustainable future. “I would like to thank the Science Museum for including CFG in this groundbreaking exhibition and inviting us to showcase how our technology will play a crucial role in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions in the entire food production cycle through our cleaner, cheaper and more sustainable oils and fats.”
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About Clean Food Group
CFG is a leading UK food tech manufacturer of sustainable oils and fats for the global food, cosmetic and pet food industries. Through its proprietary CLEAN OilCell™ technology platform, CFG delivers functional oils (CLEAN Oil™) and fats (CLEAN Fat™) at price parity to agriculture alternatives, whilst meeting the growing need for local and sustainable production.
Founded in 2022 after eight years of pioneering research, CFG manufactures its oils and fats from food waste, leveraging scalable yeast strains and fermentation technology to deliver sustainable alternatives to traditional oil and fat ingredients. With the manufacturing process now validated at scale, CFG has strategic and industrial collaborations in place with leading global FMCG and ingredients manufacturers and has a strong demand pipeline for its products.
CFG has a vastly experienced management team with a successful track record in scaling businesses in high growth regulated industries. For more information on CFG, please visit cleanfood.group.
About the Science Museum
The Science Museum is part of the Science Museum Group, the world’s leading group of science museums that share a world-class collection providing an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical achievements from across the globe. Over the last century the Science Museum has grown in scale and scope, inspiring visitors with exhibitions covering topics as diverse as robots, codebreaking, cosmonauts and superbugs.
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