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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, […]

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 […]

Dairy-free Development

Dairy-free development

The success of dairy ingredients In Harold McGee’s “On Food and Cooking – The Science and Lore of the Kitchen”, milk and dairy products hold the pride of place as Chapter 1.  This is no co-incidence as dairy has, and still forms, a significant part of the diet.  The main […]

Plant-Based Dairy

Plant-Based Dairy Alternatives and Analogues

In late 2021 Aurora Ceres presented two macro trends that are set to dictate the shape of the food and beverage industry through 2022 and beyond. These trends are Personal Health and Planet Health. In ACP’s most recent article, these macro trends were viewed through the prism of the opportunities […]

Plant-Based Burger

Creative Culinary Demonstration

We recently discussed how plant-based foods were becoming a more mainstream element of consumers’ diets: from the average household to elite athletes, and how this was a core component of the macro trends of personal- and planet-health.  In the following article we explore how the challenges of development can be […]

Plant-Based Foods Webinar

Plant-Based Foods

The 2022 food and drink industry trends presented by Aurora Ceres a few weeks ago described two macro trends driving the food and beverage industry into 2022: Personal Health and Planet Health, and their key components. The “Clean Conscience-Beyond clean label” element is complex and includes plant-based foods, and is […]

Personal Health | Planet Health

2022 Food and Beverage Trends | Planet 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 second of these. Resource Efficiency Sustainability in the entire supply chain, from the local to the global environmental […]

Personal Health | Planet Health

2022 Food and Beverage Trends | Personal Health

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 […]

Supply Chain Security

Supply Chain Security

Over the last few weeks Aurora Ceres has been discussing some of the key global issues, how these are fuelling Consumer Anxiety and what this means for innovation and NPD. It is also important to consider the impact the current situation is having, and will have, on food and supply […]

Health and Wellbeing

Health and Well-being

Food Innovation for health and well-being in a post-COVID world Last time ACP opened the discussion regarding the food industry’s response to the new-normal landscape that we find ourselves in. You can find the introductory article on feeding consumer anxiety here. Life remains in a state of flux and this […]