Heura’s plant-based chicken and beef products have taken the Spanish startup’s home market by storm. After just a year of retailing, the company’s 'chicken' strips, 'meatballs' and 'beef' burgers are now the country’s most-sold alternative meat products, according to cofounder and chief executive Marc Coloma.
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