Food innovation

When clean labels meet consumer scrutiny

Your team faces conflicting demands: create cleaner, simpler products while maintaining taste, texture, and shelf life—all under increasing consumer scrutiny. Traditional ingredient substitution approaches fail as consumers demand both naturalness and familiar eating experiences. And solutions might exist outside the food industry entirely.

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Service benefits your teams in Food industry

Map your options

We scan across industries to find every existing solution that matches your functional needs. Our approach reveals technologies from cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and materials science that perform the same function as traditional food additives.

Evaluate together

Your team uses our platform to share findings, discuss options, and vote on the most promising technologies. Everyone contributes their expertise to select the best path forward for your specific formulation challenges.

Map your options

We scan across industries to find every existing solution that matches your functional needs. Our approach reveals technologies from cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and materials science that perform the same function as traditional food additives.

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What R&D success looks like

Service benefits your teams in Food industry

Define Your True Challenge
Projects that begin with comprehensive technology mapping succeed at four times the industry average. By seeing the complete picture early, you choose innovation paths with the highest chance of success in the market.
See Every Possible Path
Map out all technologies that could meet your needs, not just the obvious ones. When replacing an artificial preservative, you'll see options from plant extracts to packaging technologies. This complete view means you never miss a viable solution hiding in an unexpected industry.
Choose the best direction
Working alongside your team, we evaluate options against your specific requirements. Whether it's maintaining mouthfeel while removing stabilizers, or finding natural colorants that withstand processing, you'll select innovation paths based on evidence, not guesswork.
Team's doing the work of their careers
Your findings and insights live in one place, accessible to everyone who needs them. Teams working with Findest report spending more time advancing innovation and less time repeating research. When everyone builds on collective knowledge, breakthrough formulations happen faster.
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Success stories

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Chemistry

Functionalisation: cellulose

An ideal outcome of this scout would result in 5-10 potential technologies/modifications that would improve packaging materials (and would result in at least 6 "innovations")

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Barrier Properties

+27%

Structural Integrity

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Biotech

Finding: Alternative Proteins

Find widely available protein sources with low ecological footprint for different applications in meat alternatives.

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63%

Lower Cost

55%

Low ecological footprint

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Chemistry

Reducing: Odor

Find technologies that speed up the turnover of an indoor space, by neutralising indoor odours within a short period of time (within a 3h), i.e. the window period between handing over of apartments from one guest to another.

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3h

Effective Within

140 sqm

Effective Area

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Explore the Universe platform

See how the Universe could help your R&D team build on existing knowledge instead of starting from scratch. Share your challenge with our team and we'll show you what's possible.

What to expect:
Understanding how your team currently handles research workflows
Demonstration of the Universe's four core capabilities
Discussion of implementation options and team setup
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