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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our client, a global food and beverage manufacturer, is looking to develop a product for ‘Sustained Energy and Endurance’. In response to the global trends, this innovation concept not only considers the sporting performance of the casual participant, but also consumers looking for an energy boost throughout their busy day. As a result, Aurora […]
Our client, a global food and beverage manufacturer, is looking to develop product that provide a enhanced perception of ‘beauty from within’. ACP is looking to identify ingredients or technologies that can enhance the perception of beauty through the consumption of food and beverage products. Beauty From Within ACP is currently […]
Our client, a global food and beverage manufacturer, is looking to identify technologies that can provide reduced thermal processing conditions for a range of products. The process or technology must provide effective cooking, microbial inactivation, pasteurisation or sterilisation. Reduced Thermal Processing ACP is currently looking to understand the new and emerging […]