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Six hot food and beverage topics that our clients are talking to us about right now

Read and download the insight in full, along with our take on what’s making waves and why...

Food & Beverage

Dr Alex Hellawell takes Alex Massey on a whistle-stop tour of the hot topics in Food & Beverage innovation. They discuss why working in food innovation is endlessly fascinating, what we need to do to feed everyone in the world the right amount in a way that is sustainable, and the role ingredient security plays in developing great products that people love.

Formulation Flexibility

What would happen if the major ingredient in your best-selling food product was unavailable, or doubled in cost? We discuss the importance of resilience - and what it looks like in action.

Precision Fermentation

Manufacturers are under pressure to deliver texture and taste without using traditional animal-based sources. Precision fermentation has exciting solutions for this complex challenge.

Nutrition & Processing

Ultra processed food is one of the hottest topics in the sector. Learn more about why there’s so much controversy, so little by way of consensus, and the opportunities available.

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable packaging is particularly challenging for manufacturers. This deep dive considers how we can help consumers to make greener choices.

Modelling & Digital Twins

Wondering if you should use digital twins and modelling? Here’s how to start thinking about whether they’re a suitable technology for your food and beverage applications.

Plant Based Formulations

Done right, plant-based food can be a win for population health, individual consumers, companies, and the planet. We discuss why it’s hard, and the best routes when going plant-based.

Roundtable Discussion

Innovia is renowned for our love of food. In this roundtable discussion, the team reflect upon their culinary experiences to date, and share learnings from challenges they’ve particularly enjoyed working on.

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What can behavioural science offer the food sector?

What it is, how it’s relevant to the food sector, and how it fits in with holistic innovation.

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Case Study: Identifying value within vertical farming

Vertical farming – is it hype or a viable, sustainable solution? Innovia identified where vertical farming could deliver value…

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Case Study: Driving greater resilience within corn crops

Recent global events have put pressure on corn crops. Innovia identified where and how they can be affected within the supply chain to drive even greater resilience…

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Case Study: Building an innovation strategy for Foods

Delivering breakthrough innovation requires appropriate resource allocation. Innovia helped PepsiCo develop a strategy to enable growth over three horizons...

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Case Study: Making healthy snacks appealing

Consumers want snacks that are both tasty and nutritious, but this is not always straightforward. Innovia helped to plan the next generation of healthy snacks...

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Case Study: Envisaging the brewery of the future

Climatic and economic changes affect the brewing industry. Innovia assessed processes and technologies for next-generation brewing plants…

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Case Study: Separating components in food waste streams

Multicomponent food waste streams are hard to reuse on a production line. Innovia helped Mondelēz identify a promising manufacturing process to recover food components...

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Nutrition & Processing

Ultra processed food is one of the hottest topics in the sector. Learn more about why there’s so much controversy, so little by way of consensus, and the opportunities available...

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Plant Based Formulations

Done right, plant-based food can be a win for population health, individual consumers, companies, and the planet. We discuss why it’s hard, and the best routes when going plant-based...

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Formulation Flexibility

What would happen if the major ingredient in your best-selling food product was unavailable, or doubled in cost? We discuss the importance of resilience - and what it looks like in action...

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Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable packaging is particularly challenging for food & beverage manufacturers. How we can help consumers to make greener choices?

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Case Study: Reducing drink-driving using behavioural science

How can you stop people drinking and driving? Innovia’s behavioural science approach and in-bar testing showed various ways to do it...

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Case Study: Unlocking better-for-you options for beverages

Finding ways to improve flavours can be challenging, Innovia explored the science of how we perceive sweetness, and sweetener molecules to unlock the challenge…

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Case Study: Engineering biology to make better products

Proteins are often unstable in non-biological systems. Innovia designed a range of ways to stabilise a functional cofactor–protein complex...

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What’s cropping up?

Humans began cultivating crops over 10,000 years ago. Since then, farming practices have evolved...

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A unique behaviour change programme

‘When you drive, never drink’ campaign. Follow the story...

Helping consumers make healthier choices

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Case Study: Reducing drink-driving using behavioural science

How can you stop people drinking and driving? Innovia’s behavioural science approach and in-bar testing showed various ways to do it...

news-image

Case Study: Unlocking better-for-you options for beverages

Finding ways to improve flavours can be challenging, Innovia explored the science of how we perceive sweetness, and sweetener molecules to unlock the challenge…

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Case Study: Making healthy snacks appealing

Consumers want snacks that are both tasty and nutritious, but this is not always straightforward. Innovia helped to plan the next generation of healthy snacks...

Thinking strategically within Food & Beverage

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Case Study: Driving greater resilience within corn crops

Recent global events have put pressure on corn crops. Innovia identified where and how they can be affected within the supply chain to drive even greater resilience…

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Case Study: Building an innovation strategy for Foods

Delivering breakthrough innovation requires appropriate resource allocation. Innovia helped PepsiCo develop a strategy to enable growth over three horizons...

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Case Study: Understanding an emerging consumer group

To broaden a product’s appeal, you need to know who might consider using it and why. Innovia helped PepsiCo understand an emerging consumer group...

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Case Study: Understanding cognitive drivers of sports performance

Sports nutrition typically focuses on improving physical outcomes. Innovia helped PepsiCo look for new ways to also improve mental performance by exploring the underlying cognitive drivers...

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Case Study: Improving manufacture of natural cheese

Regulations around natural cheese manufacture restrict innovation. Innovia created and developed new technology platforms to accelerate manufacturing…

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Case Study: Brokering open innovation

Successfully deploying open innovation requires good integration of internal stakeholders and external partners. Innovia facilitated this process…

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Case Study: Harnessing soft-matter physics to create better snacks

Snacks made from potatoes have unique properties. Innovia explored the underlying physics to identify how to obtain similar properties from other ingredients...

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Case Study: Creating concepts for novel pack lines

Future pack lines in different markets may favour automation, cost, or flexibility differently. Innovia created visions of different types of lines…

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Case Study: Generating ideas for new snack products

Consumers want snacks that are delicious but healthy. Innovia created and developed a range of product concepts…

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Case Study: Improving sustainability of food packaging

Novel packaging materials can deliver additional benefits but may constrain design directions. Innovia generated a portfolio of pack formats that worked with a new material…

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Case Study: Developing food products for wellness

Consumers' changing requirements drive new product innovation. Innovia developed novel platforms to meet the food needs of a new demographic…

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Case Study: Exploring the properties of meat

Food appearance in shelf-stable products can be a challenge. Innovia identified novel approaches from other sectors to resolve this trade-off…

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Case Study: Designing innovative beer packaging

Packaging innovation can drive product sales. Innovia explored ways of delivering new functional benefits in refined packaging concepts…

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Food & Beverage Hub

Innovia Technology’s mission is to help our clients outperform their competitors and change the world for good through breakthrough innovation. Food and drink touches everyone in the world, so the challenges and developments in the food and beverage industry affect all of us – and there are plenty of both at the moment. The industry is grappling with supply constraints, sustainability challenges, and changing views on processing, but is also delivering new products and using new tools to make them. It’s a good time to be innovating in food!

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Six hot food and beverage topics that our clients are talking to us about right now

Read and download the insight in full, along with our take on what’s making waves and why...

Food & Beverage

Dr Alex Hellawell takes Alex Massey on a whistle-stop tour of the hot topics in Food & Beverage innovation. They discuss why working in food innovation is endlessly fascinating, what we need to do to feed everyone in the world the right amount in a way that is sustainable, and the role ingredient security plays in developing great products that people love.

Formulation Flexibility

What would happen if the major ingredient in your best-selling food product was unavailable, or doubled in cost? We discuss the importance of resilience - and what it looks like in action.

Precision Fermentation

Manufacturers are under pressure to deliver texture and taste without using traditional animal-based sources. Precision fermentation has exciting solutions for this complex challenge.

Nutrition & Processing

Ultra processed food is one of the hottest topics in the sector. Learn more about why there’s so much controversy, so little by way of consensus, and the opportunities available.

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable packaging is particularly challenging for manufacturers. This deep dive considers how we can help consumers to make greener choices.

Modelling & Digital Twins

Wondering if you should use digital twins and modelling? Here’s how to start thinking about whether they’re a suitable technology for your food and beverage applications.

Plant Based Formulations

Done right, plant-based food can be a win for population health, individual consumers, companies, and the planet. We discuss why it’s hard, and the best routes when going plant-based.

Roundtable Discussion

Innovia is renowned for our love of food. In this roundtable discussion, the team reflect upon their culinary experiences to date, and share learnings from challenges they’ve particularly enjoyed working on.

news-image

What can behavioural science offer the food sector?

What it is, how it’s relevant to the food sector, and how it fits in with holistic innovation.

news-image

Case Study: Identifying value within vertical farming

Vertical farming – is it hype or a viable, sustainable solution? Innovia identified where vertical farming could deliver value…

news-image

Case Study: Driving greater resilience within corn crops

Recent global events have put pressure on corn crops. Innovia identified where and how they can be affected within the supply chain to drive even greater resilience…

news-image

Case Study: Building an innovation strategy for Foods

Delivering breakthrough innovation requires appropriate resource allocation. Innovia helped PepsiCo develop a strategy to enable growth over three horizons...

news-image

Case Study: Making healthy snacks appealing

Consumers want snacks that are both tasty and nutritious, but this is not always straightforward. Innovia helped to plan the next generation of healthy snacks...

news-image

Case Study: Envisaging the brewery of the future

Climatic and economic changes affect the brewing industry. Innovia assessed processes and technologies for next-generation brewing plants…

news-image

Case Study: Separating components in food waste streams

Multicomponent food waste streams are hard to reuse on a production line. Innovia helped Mondelēz identify a promising manufacturing process to recover food components...

news-image

Nutrition & Processing

Ultra processed food is one of the hottest topics in the sector. Learn more about why there’s so much controversy, so little by way of consensus, and the opportunities available...

news-image

Plant Based Formulations

Done right, plant-based food can be a win for population health, individual consumers, companies, and the planet. We discuss why it’s hard, and the best routes when going plant-based...

news-image

Formulation Flexibility

What would happen if the major ingredient in your best-selling food product was unavailable, or doubled in cost? We discuss the importance of resilience - and what it looks like in action...

news-image

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable packaging is particularly challenging for food & beverage manufacturers. How we can help consumers to make greener choices?

news-image

Case Study: Reducing drink-driving using behavioural science

How can you stop people drinking and driving? Innovia’s behavioural science approach and in-bar testing showed various ways to do it...

news-image

Case Study: Unlocking better-for-you options for beverages

Finding ways to improve flavours can be challenging, Innovia explored the science of how we perceive sweetness, and sweetener molecules to unlock the challenge…

news-image

Case Study: Engineering biology to make better products

Proteins are often unstable in non-biological systems. Innovia designed a range of ways to stabilise a functional cofactor–protein complex...

news-image

What’s cropping up?

Humans began cultivating crops over 10,000 years ago. Since then, farming practices have evolved...

news-image

A unique behaviour change programme

‘When you drive, never drink’ campaign. Follow the story...

news-image

Case Study: Reducing drink-driving using behavioural science

How can you stop people drinking and driving? Innovia’s behavioural science approach and in-bar testing showed various ways to do it...

news-image

Case Study: Unlocking better-for-you options for beverages

Finding ways to improve flavours can be challenging, Innovia explored the science of how we perceive sweetness, and sweetener molecules to unlock the challenge…

news-image

Case Study: Making healthy snacks appealing

Consumers want snacks that are both tasty and nutritious, but this is not always straightforward. Innovia helped to plan the next generation of healthy snacks...

news-image

Case Study: Driving greater resilience within corn crops

Recent global events have put pressure on corn crops. Innovia identified where and how they can be affected within the supply chain to drive even greater resilience…

news-image

Case Study: Building an innovation strategy for Foods

Delivering breakthrough innovation requires appropriate resource allocation. Innovia helped PepsiCo develop a strategy to enable growth over three horizons...

news-image

Case Study: Understanding an emerging consumer group

To broaden a product’s appeal, you need to know who might consider using it and why. Innovia helped PepsiCo understand an emerging consumer group...

news-image

Case Study: Understanding cognitive drivers of sports performance

Sports nutrition typically focuses on improving physical outcomes. Innovia helped PepsiCo look for new ways to also improve mental performance by exploring the underlying cognitive drivers...

news-image

Case Study: Improving manufacture of natural cheese

Regulations around natural cheese manufacture restrict innovation. Innovia created and developed new technology platforms to accelerate manufacturing…

news-image

Case Study: Brokering open innovation

Successfully deploying open innovation requires good integration of internal stakeholders and external partners. Innovia facilitated this process…

news-image

Case Study: Harnessing soft-matter physics to create better snacks

Snacks made from potatoes have unique properties. Innovia explored the underlying physics to identify how to obtain similar properties from other ingredients...

news-image

Case Study: Creating concepts for novel pack lines

Future pack lines in different markets may favour automation, cost, or flexibility differently. Innovia created visions of different types of lines…

news-image

Case Study: Generating ideas for new snack products

Consumers want snacks that are delicious but healthy. Innovia created and developed a range of product concepts…

news-image

Case Study: Improving sustainability of food packaging

Novel packaging materials can deliver additional benefits but may constrain design directions. Innovia generated a portfolio of pack formats that worked with a new material…

news-image

Case Study: Developing food products for wellness

Consumers' changing requirements drive new product innovation. Innovia developed novel platforms to meet the food needs of a new demographic…

news-image

Case Study: Exploring the properties of meat

Food appearance in shelf-stable products can be a challenge. Innovia identified novel approaches from other sectors to resolve this trade-off…

news-image

Case Study: Designing innovative beer packaging

Packaging innovation can drive product sales. Innovia explored ways of delivering new functional benefits in refined packaging concepts…