Latest reports

The latest research reports issued from our member-funded Research Programme demonstrate the wide range of practical scientific investigation we undertake on behalf of members:

The wellness lifestyle concept and the opportunities it presents for new product development (RD325) investigated what motivated people to take action on health and diet-related messages when purchasing food products.

For a copy of the full report send an e-mail to auto@campdenbri.co.uk with the subject line: send RD325

Rapid, non-destructive imaging of food composition (RD324) reports on the methods and analysis software developed to enable an NIR hyperspectral imaging system to be readily applicable to a wide range of food product types. The method is useful for measuring samples with non-uniform structure and composition.

For a copy of the full report send an e-mail to auto@campdenbri.co.uk with the subject line: send RD324

Primary production of selected food allergens of plant origin: information to inform risk assessments for the food industry (RD323) provides background information on the primary (agricultural) production of selected allergenic foods of plant origin - peanuts, soybeans, nuts, celery, mustard, sesame seeds and lupin.

For a copy of the full report send an e-mail to auto@campdenbri.co.uk with the subject line: send RD323

The impact of different portion sizes on respondents´ scoring behaviour in central location test conditions (RD322) investigated whether there was an optimum portion size to get the most out of consumer tasting trials. It was found to depend on the number and type of samples being tasted and the order in which different samples were analysed.

For a copy of the full report send an e-mail to auto@campdenbri.co.uk with the subject line: send RD322

Members can receive a free electronic copy of any of these, by sending an e-mail to auto@campdenbri.co.uk with the subject line: send RDxxx (where xxx is the number of the report).