A mindset shift has occurred over the past year and many businesses are realising that those who do not innovate, do not move forward. Innovative companies are more profitable in the long run so a clearly defined innovation roadmap can […]
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Developing Functional Foods & Beverages for Preventive Nutrition
Discussions around the subject of preventive healthcare and preventive nutrition have become more prevalent over the past year when the impact of COVID-19 forced us to look at our habits with regards to taking care of ourselves and managing our […]
Sensory Science for Consumer-Centric Product Development
The effective use of sensory science has the power to elevate your product development process and give you that competitive edge to gain success in the market. Putting the consumer first in the new product development process is key to […]
Ensuring Food Safety & Quality in Product Development
When it comes to food safety and quality processes there are many factors to consider. This blog will look at a few of those factors in the context of producing results that can accelerate innovation and create sustainable and more […]
Compliance by Design: A Food Industry Perspective
A successful project in any industry requires a good project manager with experience in compliance by design to oversee it. This is especially true of the food and beverage industry where there are many areas along the supply chain to […]
Glossary of Terms for FoodTech Businesses
The following is a non-exhaustive list of useful industry terms that may be helpful to owners and teams of food businesses who are just starting out or who would like to keep up to date with certain terms and phrases […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Benefits of Biotransformation in Building Innovative Food Products
Biotransformation 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 […]