Dairy-Free Milkshakes Arrive at All 220 Smashburger Locations

OAKLAND, Calif., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Eclipse Foods, the leader in plant-based dairy products that are indistinguishable from conventional dairy, announced today its partnership with Smashburger®, a leading fast-casual better burger restaurant, to create the industry’s first nationally available plant-based milkshakes. The milkshakes are now available for purchase in all Smashburger® locations nationwide (for … Read more

We tasted this plant-based ice cream and can happily report it’s delicious

You scream, I scream, we all scream for… plant-based ice cream? Look, we know the phrase “plant-based ice cream” seems odd, but if Impossible Foods is able to create plant-based burgers that can “bleed,” the idea of ice cream that uses a dairy replacement made primarily of plants should sound pretty normal by comparison. Eclipse … Read more

Eclipse’s ice cream is in a league of its own

While the meat alternatives category is suffering from some growing pains, investors’ enthusiasm for dairy alternatives continues unabated, with plant-based dairy specialist Eclipse Foods this week announcing a $40m series B round* led by Sozo Ventures, taking its cumulative funding to $60m. read more

Eclipse Foods Partners with Smashburger on Plant-Based Milkshakes

Eclipse Foods, a leader in plant-based dairy products that are indistinguishable from conventional dairy, announced its partnership with Smashburger, a leading fast-casual better burger restaurant, to create the industry’s first nationally available plant-based milkshakes. The milkshakes are now available for purchase in all Smashburger® locations nationwide in Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry, Peanut Butter, Tangerine Dream and … Read more

How this startup gets its plant-based ice cream to taste like dairy

The plant-based ice cream from Eclipse Foods, a Bay Area startup, is made with ingredients like oats, potatoes, and corn. But because of the company’s process—a patent-pending combination of heat, pressure, and other steps—it mimics the molecular structure of dairy. “We looked at alternative proteins in the food system at large, and what needs to … Read more

I tried the Impossible Burger of vegan ice cream, and it tasted like real dairy

There’s a new ice cream in town with serious bragging rights – and it’s vegan.  When I went plant-based a couple of years ago, I found some stereotypes about vegan food to be true, especially when it came to dairy substitutes. Almond milk creamer, for example, just doesn’t add the same creaminess to coffee as … Read more

Eclipse Foods inks deal with Whole Foods for its plant-based ice cream

With demand for plant-based meat alternatives at an all-time high, Eclipse Foods is no doubt hoping to do for ice cream what companies like Impossible and Beyond have managed for the hamburger. Pre-pandemic, the company announced select retail availability in New York and its native San Francisco, and now it’s expanding coverage with a high-profile … Read more