Nutrition and health

Nutrition and health has become an increasingly important technical theme across the entire food supply chain, driven by demand from consumers, regulators and retailers for increasingly healthy food and drink products. We have responded to the growth of this theme, offering specialist support to businesses of all sizes in the following areas:

• Product innovation and renovation to meet nutrition and health targets
• Consumer acceptance studies for nutrition and health messages
• Expert guidance on emerging areas in the nutrition and health market
• Regulatory aspects of nutrition (including nutrition and health claims)
• Thought-leadership and scientific review in the field of nutrition and health
• Project management of nutrition and health innovation (including scientific substantiation activities)
• Preparation of novel health claim dossiers for regulatory approval
• Analytical determination of nutrients

As well as specific expertise in product development, and in nutritional analysis, we can help in investigating how the consumer will react to new concepts, flavours and health messages, advise on the legislation surrounding nutrition labelling and the use of nutrition and health claims, and support the preparation of health claim dossiers. We also have extensive knowledge of the microbiological implications of product reformulation, and of aspects relating to agriculture and raw material production.

Nutrition and health: MFR projects

• Calorie reduction and fibre enhancement (New for 2019)
• Pre-processing to improve natural nutrition and functionality of ingredients (New for 2019)
• Potential of plant proteins for ingredient and product development (New for 2019)
• Clean label sugar reduction
• Ingredient selection to meet compositional and nutritional targets
• Improving the nutritional status of crops for the agri–food chain
• Designing food and drinks for personalisation of diets for different life stages

Nutrition and health: archive MFR projects

• sugar and fat replacers
• fibre enriched baked goods
• replacement of hard fats with oils

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Key services

Bakery product development

Product innovation and reformulation is essential in the highly competitive bakery sector.

Beer product development

Pilot maltings and brewery produce product to commercial standard.

Gluten free product development

Assessing the gluten content and gluten-free status of raw materials and products.

Novel ingredients

We can help you look into the potential of novel ingredients.

Pet food product development

All our services are available to support the pet food industry.

Pilot plant facilities

Food and drink pilot plant facilities, covering over 3000m2.