A successful project in any industry requires a good project manager to oversee it. This is especially true of the food and beverage industry where there are many areas along the supply chain to be considerate of. If you have […]
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I maintain a few resources on ingredients, their functionality and nutritional profile as a service to the industry. Reach out to me for corrections, additions, and suggestions, or if you want to help maintain these resources.
Glossary of Terms for Food Businesses
Adaptogens are generally defined as any ingredient that can help the body to better cope with physical or mental stress. Food additive is any substance not normally consumed as a food by itself, intentionally added during the manufacturing of […]
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 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 […]
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 Strong 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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
Innovation In The Food 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 […]
