Challenge: Identify new or enhanced ingredients or technologies that can provide NextGen energy for non-alcoholic beverages. This can be cognitive or physical energy. Client: Global FMCG manufacturer Background: Consumers continue to look for food and beverages to address specific performance and wellness requirements. Energy drinks are well established and underpinned by caffeine […]
Beverage Trends
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Challenge: Powdered Beverages Client: Global FMCG manufacturer Background: Consumers desire fully natural, good for you, easily dissolvable, and indulgent powdered beverages. The client is looking to enable the creation of new, powdered products which exhibit these desirable characteristics through alternative, natural, ingredients and technologies which fulfil these desired characteristics. Goal: The identification […]
Challenge: Enhancing taste in beverages Client: Global FMCG manufacturer Background: Consumers often indicate that some beverages deliver a strong and enticing aroma, which is not matched by their flavour intensity. It is believed this is due to the lack of ability to deliver taste in the mouth, rather than through olfactory target […]
The dairy sector and dairy innovation is currently considered one of the top three most innovative sectors within Europe. Between 2022 to 2029 the dairy desserts market1 is expected to growth at a rate of 4.27% whilst the global frozen desserts sub-sector will exceed that, at CAGR of 5.5%, during […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
There are two key trends driving the food and beverage industry into 2022: Personal Health and Planet Health. The following article breaks down some of the technologies, ingredients and solutions behind the second of these. Resource Efficiency Sustainability in the entire supply chain, from the local to the global environmental […]
Personal Health There are two key trends driving the food and beverage industry into 2022: Personal Health and Planet Health. The following article breaks down some of the technologies, ingredients and solutions behind the first of these. Immunity as Foundation of Personal Health. Management of physical conditions and boosting of […]