RM PhD. Technical and Development Consultancy for the Food, Beverage and Supplement Industries.
Previous projects
Product Development Projects
A little selection of some of the previous projects that I have been involved with over the years.
Ensuring that your finished product delivers the dose you advertise is key to working with these new ingredients!
Nootropics & Adaptogens
Supplement development is very different to food as limits are defined by law and requirements are set by your competitors.
Supplements
In the early days of the project I helped with testing many options for fine tuning the recipe.
Vegan egg
Quite proud of this one, as it was fairly difficult to find the right balance of ingredients while maintaining the colour.
Shelf stable white hot sauce
Around the time the Olympics came to London - I was pretty proud of the idea to use blue cornflowers for the blue coating.
Olympics sushi
Along with the Olympics sushi - a bit of blue sky innovation to look at the potential future for retail sushi.
Yuzu onigiri
Australian chicken salt... a seasoning for chips. caution: highly addictive... made us by our own deep fryer.
Traditional seasoning
A range of party food lines looking at Christmas production.
Retail party food
Building a new brand from scratch - from concept ideation right through to consumer testing and manufacture.
Ready to drink cocktails
A ready meal range, tightly costed but innovative nonetheless.
Retail ready meals
Many different protein bars over the years. Balancing all the desired claims and maintaining quality is a challenge.
Protein bars
A branded range of plant based balls that deliver on taste at a time when the market was otherwise quite stale.
Plant based balls
A little bit of blue sky innovation for a brand that hadn't changed in many years.
Branded pies
After many iterations, one thing I can say that I do well is protein shakes. Insect-based shakes came with their own challenges though.
Protein shakes
All of the flavours and complexity of a high quality cocktail but in a pellet that dissolves in alcohol providing a bit of a show to boot.
Effervescent cocktail pellets
By far the hardest project I have had. The chitin in insect protein appears to interfere with gluten formation. Then how to make noodles?
Cricket protein ramen noodles
Made for a development competition. A high protein ready meal with a luxury feel using fully sustainable ingredients.
High protein ready meals
This project was built on work by David Chang. Centrifuging to get 3 different ingredients though.. my idea.
One of a few different fermentation projects.
Technical / Food Science Projects
A small selection of technical or science projects that I have been involved with.
A few different projects that work with these on-trend ingredients. This includes some technical work on getting the right dose & labelling.
Nootropics & Adaptogens
We had a novel seasoning product that was doing really well as a seasoning but we also found out that it would improve meat texture too!
Texture changes in meat from a novel seasoning
Do different beef breeds have different flavour profiles under GC-MS? Absolutely they do!
Steak Flavour Analysis
Coating issues for a chicken wing product. Assessed the issue and looked at the route causes.
Quality analysis & Complaints management
Many different tests for many different products including water activity - the main method of ensuring the safety of anything dry.
Safety Analysis
I worked to build a large database of potential vegetable defects, ultimately saving the company money on complaints.
Building a defects database
A tedious necessity. I have legal labelling qualification and a checklist of almost 200 points to really ensure compliance.
Legal Labelling Checks
Part of the key work required to assess a novel ingredient for safety before it can get permitted for sale.. its a LOT of work but worth it!
Novel Foods Safety Assessment
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