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Food & Drink Product Development

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Feeling Your Products Can Do Better?

If you are a newly established food or beverage start-up that struggle to understand your target consumer preferences or if you are an established start-up looking to expand or improve your product range you have come to the right place!

Your Food & Drink Product Development Partner

Having expertise in food science, flavour science, and product development allows me to fully understand the science behind food & beverage products and achieve optimum creation.

This enables to develop exceptional products that stand out in the market.

My commitment lies in assisting my clients in developing and improving their products and processes, enhancing efficiency, and gaining a competitive edge in the market.

 

Let's do this!

What is Missing...

 Although factors like texture, appearance, packaging, and cost are crucial and challenging to perfect, it is ultimately the taste and flavours that customers prioritise when buying a product.

Unfortunately, the food industry often overlooks and underestimates this crucial aspect. We have all experienced the disappointment of encountering a weak or unpleasant flavour profile in a product.

 

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What is Missing...

 Although factors like texture, appearance, packaging, and cost are crucial and challenging to perfect, it is ultimately the taste and flavours that customers prioritise when buying a product.

Unfortunately, the food industry often overlooks and underestimates this crucial aspect. We have all experienced the disappointment of encountering a weak or unpleasant flavour profile in a product.

 

A woman eating and really enjoying a pasta dish
Flavouring creation in a laboratory with glass jars and pipettes

The Complexity

Contrary to popular belief, food and beverage product development is far more complex than simply combining ingredients, requiring careful consideration of ingredient interactions, dosage limits, stability, and regulations.

Therefore, achieving the desired texture, mouthfeel, colour and flavour profile is a complex and intricate process that requires a keen understanding of food science and flavour science.

Flavouring creation in a laboratory with glass jars and pipettes

The Complexity

Contrary to popular belief, using flavourings is not as simple as adding a few drops to a recipe. They come with their own set of regulations that vary from country to country, along with specific terminology and restrictions on certain raw materials or solvents.

Therefore, achieving the desired flavour delivery is a complex and intricate process that requires a keen understanding of flavourings, their chemical properties, and their interactions with various food & beverage matrices.

Case Study

A client with an established range of plant-based products approached me with a challenge: consumer feedback highlighted a serious need for flavour improvement.

We started with a flavour workshop to pinpoint flavour profiles that would harmonise with their base and resonate with their target audience.

Through a series of rigorous tasting, we achieved a significant improvement in the flavour profiles across their product line.

The client gained invaluable insights into flavour selection within plant-based products, including the complexities of flavour interactions, cost implications, and effective reformulation strategies.

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Product Development

The successful food or drink product development involves considering numerous factors such as ingredients influences, flavour profiles, consumer perception, and product stability.

I take the time to thoroughly understand these variables and make informed decisions based on scientific principles.

By combining best flavour profile, texture and mouthfeel, I create harmonious products that align with your target consumers' expectations.

I'm in!
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Food Safari

If you are a F&B start-up and you struggle to understand your target consumer preferences in terms of flavours, you have come to the right place.

A food safari can help you gather valuable sensory data around trends, culinary culture, familiarity, and traditions to make informed decisions and gather more information around your target consumers and understand their palate.

So you can select the perfect flavour profile for your product they will love!

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1:1 Mentoring Sessions

If you have dreams of creating your first products or if you are an established F&B start-up looking to improve your current product range based on consumer feedback but don't know where to start, the 1:1 sessions are perfect for you!

By providing a step-by-step action plan, you will gain confidence in the system you have implemented and can focus on other crucial aspects of your business, knowing exactly what needs to be done. 

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Yes, Please!

Product Creation

At EPICSI, we specialise in developing products for your business, ensuring that every aspect of food and beverage production is handled seamlessly, from the kitchen to the market.

Our services extend beyond product development to include key areas such as labelling, allergen, and management of supplier relationships.

With our comprehensive support, you can focus on other critical aspects of your business with ease.

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Food & Drink Product Development

I specialise in developing products for your business, ensuring that every aspect of food and beverage production is handled seamlessly, from the kitchen to the market.

The services extend beyond product development to include key areas such as labelling, allergen, and management of supplier relationships.

With this comprehensive support, you can focus on other critical aspects of your business with ease.

Let's go!
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What Would You Gain?

🔸Understand the role of each ingredient that goes in your product.

🔸Ignite creativity & explore new flavour combinations.

🔸Implement a data-driven approach to select flavours, including market data, competitor analysis &  trends.

🔸Refine flavour pre-selection to suit your products.

🔸Gain insight into consumer preferences & apply this knowledge across your projects.

Let's do this!

Services Tailored To Your Needs & Budget

Food Safari

  • 1 session 
  • Each session last 5h
  • In person
  • Bespoke and guided food & beverage journey in London
  • Tailored to your project
  • Spark conversation & brainstorming 
  • Includes follow-up email with tasting notes, observations & discussions

1:1 Mentoring Sessions

  • 6 sessions
  • Each session last 2h
  • Virtual
  • Go through every step you need to do to create your food & beverage product from kitchen to industrialisation
  • Provide you with templates to fill to support your project
  • Includes action plans & follow-up emails

Food & Drink Product Development

  • Regular virtual/ in person meetings
  • Formulation & Prototyping
  • Industrialisation
  • Provide market samples
  • Provide a flavour & texture workshop with results & interpretation of the session
  • Flavour & flavour profile recommendations
  • Creation of flavour wheels to support tasting & validation
  • Managing supplier & contract manufacturer relationship
  • Creation of a flavour blueprint of your product for internal & marketing communication
  • Ingredients Cost-in-Use 
  • Nutrition label & Ingredient list
  • Informal Shelf-life testing
  • Q&As & problem solving
  • Creation of a final report with all project information 
Quotation will be calculated according to your business requirements and project.
I'm Ready, Let's Talk!

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