Checklist: Assessing Fibres as Functional Ingredients
The toolkit below was designed as a useful pocket checklist for you to reference when assessing fibres as functional ingredients. It includes an overview of all the different attributes and characteristics to consider when working through this process. If you have trouble viewing the image below, click this link to download the checklist. Contact me […]
Innovation Workshops for Functional Food & Beverage Businesses
Food innovation workshops in the age of disruption develops your ability to innovate by generating more ideas and putting them into action. When you know how to develop a single, end-to-end framework for testing innovative ideas, and understand how an organisation that is defined by and developed around innovative execution, can adapt itself to foster […]
Nutricosmetics and Other Converging Industries: 15 Keys to Success
Nutricosmetics is a relatively new term in the FMCG world and can be defined as the introduction of foods, beverages or nutritional supplements into cosmetic products to create an added value product that provides benefits towards a consumer’s appearance. The popularity of these merged industries is growing and the market has gained many new competitors […]
Benefits of Biotransformation in Building Innovative Food Products
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZDkJvmyGMBiotransformation is defined as the chemical alteration of elements such as nutrients, amino acids, toxins, and drugs in the body. It’s important to take into account from a food science and product development perspective because of the way different nutrients and ingredients will react to one another in the body. This affects different elements of […]
Focus on Gut Health For Our Immune Systems Through Nutrition
Immunity remains the hot topic of the moment as we have all realised the true importance our health plays in global pandemics such as the one we currently find ourselves in. Public health and hygiene practices during Covid have been reiterating the importance of hand-washing and covering our mouths when we cough to prevent the […]
Flaxseed: nature’s best-kept multifunctional ingredient.
When we think of superfoods, we tend to think of exotic, novel-sounding ingredients as being better than the common products that are readily available such as broccoli, berries, beetroot or oats. This article will focus on one such superfood – flaxseed – which goes by the Latin name ‘Linum Usitatissimum’ and means “most useful”. I want […]
How can natural ingredients reinforce immunity?
Throughout this period of time where we are all dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic and the aftermath as we move into second waves globally, I thought it would be a good time to share my thoughts on how we can best reinforce immunity levels in general through sources such as bioactives, natural ingredients and primarily, […]
Innovation In The Food For Beauty and Beauty-From-Within Industry
Beauty, and health, begins and grows from within. This is something we have always known but it has only been in recent years that both the food and beauty industries have merged to form one larger beauty-from-within industry. Consumers nowadays are becoming increasingly aware of the relationship between their nutritional food habits and their health. […]