Food and beverage consulting
Sagentia Innovation works with some of the world’s leading food and beverage brands to navigate an ever-changing and increasingly demanding landscape.
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We’re trusted to help our clients stay at the forefront of food and beverage innovations, from delivering radical new technologies and food science products to accelerating our customer’s R&D programmes and helping them address consumer demands for key trends such as food on-the-go, plant-based food, food safety, gluten-free, and personalised nutrition.
Our cross-disciplinary teams – and their expertise across a range of subject areas – means challenges are viewed from multiple angles, providing confidence that our solutions are underpinned by science and commercially viable.
We consultant on new food product and beverage systems, as well as, providing market intelligence, food modelling, nutritional health claims, nutrition legislation and food ingredient analysis.
Ingredient innovation
The ingredient and formulation innovation work we do for food and beverage clients doesn’t stop at creating new products. We’re experienced in modelling processes, manufacturing methodologies, transporting complex rheological fluids, creating novel microstructures, spraying, and dispensing; all of which act to unlock potential new product formats.
Food and beverage processing
At every stage of ‘lab to consumer’ we’re helping many of the world’s leading food and beverage brands address some of their toughest manufacturing and scale-up challenges.
From personalisation to product development, carbonation to thermal and non-thermal preservation, vending and dispensing systems to ingredient innovation, we bring our expertise to reduce costs, minimise waste, maximise uptime and increase efficiency.
Food service disruption
Food Service is undergoing unprecedented change. From personalisation to product development, dispensers to vending systems, data analytics to user experience, we are delivering insights and new products that enable the disruption of the food service channel.
Food waste
There are opportunities for food waste innovation across the entire farm-to-fork spectrum. We bring technical expertise and experience in food and beverage processing and formulation, coupled with market assessment and strategic partnership capabilities. This puts us in a strong position to illuminate the path to a sustainable value proposition via innovative technical solutions coupled with novel routes to market.
Health and nutrition
We help organisations to understand and explore how science and technology can address key health and nutrition trends. From people to pets we’ve delivered projects ranging from nutrition on the go, personalised nutrition, and supporting health and wellness claims.
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