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Healthy Beverages

Healthy Beverages

Making Every Sip Count The soft drinks market is the world’s most innovative food sector (1) and the European functional beverage market, including those perceived as healthy beverages, is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.25% from 2021 to 2026 (2). Near term food trend predictions will be a […]

Cocoa Crisis

Can CRISPR counter the Cocoa Crisis?

Cocoa is a highly valued commodity that has been cultivated in the Amazon and Orinoco River regions for three millennia.  The Spanish encouraged the planting of cocoa throughout its colonies, but this was fraught with difficulties due to the very specific climatic conditions required for successful cropping, namely high ambient […]

The Healthy Bread Basket

Healthy Snacks

Let’s be honest, we all love a snack, whether it’s trail-mixes, popcorn or crisps, through to chocolate, confectionery and snack-bars; but they rarely tick the ‘healthy-eating’ box. As a more mindful approach to nutrition emerges, self-care becomes an increasingly important factor, and healthy snacks need to deliver good nutrition as […]

The Mindful Nutritionist

Welcome to the Mindful Nutritionist. Today’s health-conscious consumers are increasingly demanding that ingredients are ‘Better for Me, Better for the Planet’. Food and beverage market trends indicate that tomorrow’s products will be a combination of holistic health and self-care, under-pinned by sustainability and delivered with the highest organoleptic properties of […]

Feeding 9 Billion

New Breeding Technologies- Feeding the 9 Billion

The following article considers the impending food security issues and how the impact of factors such as a growing population, soil nutrient depletion and climate change need to be urgently considered and how new and emerging technologies could provide some of the solutions. The topics discussed include: (i) Food Insecurity; […]

Renewed NPD Priorities

Renewed NPD Priorities

Whilst the Covid pandemic is not yet a mere memory, the frightening reality of current global events and their significant propagating and synergistic impacts are now starting to be understood, so this could be the right time to consider renewed NPD priorities. Notwithstanding the very real horrors afflicting specific populations, […]

Healthy Aging

ACTION CALL: F22/80/1 Healthy Aging

Our client, a global food and beverage producer, is looking to identify new and emerging ingredients and technologies that can help with the particular needs of the growing population, and the specific challenges of healthy aging. From the moment we are born our needs are ever changing, and a key part […]

Seed-Oil Waste Valourisation

ACTION CALL: F22/33/1 Seed-Oil Waste.

Our client, a global food and beverage manufacturer and producer of seed oil, is looking to identify technologies that can valourise the process waste from its seed-oil manufacture. Seed-Oil Waste Valourisation Aurora Ceres is looking to identify processes which could be utilises to increase the value of seed-oil waste. This by-product, […]

Texture and Mouthfeel

Texture and Mouthfeel in Food and Beverages

Hydrocolloids The sensory enjoyment of food and drink is an holistic experience, and is achieved through the combination of all its organoleptic qualities including the texture and mouthfeel.  To achieve, enhance, modify or stabilise the specific texture or mouthfeel of a product, functional ingredients such as gels, thickeners or stabilizers […]

Noodle Production Technology

ACTION CALL: F22/32/1 Noodle Production Technology

Our client, a global food and beverage manufacturer, is looking to identify technologies or manufacturing processes that can support its development of a hydrocolloid-based food product through the formation of strands or noodles. Hydrocolloid strand or noodle production technology. Aurora Ceres is looking to identify processes which would allow for the […]