Why Choose Guires's FRL as Your Food Product Development (FPD) Consultant and Partner?

There are several options in almost every product area in today’s market, and the difficulty is in coming up with unique items that stand out and connect with customers. Guires Food Research Lab (FRL) takes a holistic approach to creating food and beverage products. We define, demographically target, and build effective goods through a sequential process for category selection and comprehension. The client can visit the lab to learn the process. We offer unlimited rounds of revisions to ensure customer satisfaction. The final product prototype, along with the documentation process, including the video (through email), will be shipped to the client, and in case the client is not satisfied with the video, a food technology consultant will visit the place for the product demo at the client’s costs.

What are the different forms that you deliver the Food Product Formulations?

The food industry is witnessing a new form of consumption. Keeping that in mind, we can formulate the products in the form of ready-to-eat, ready-to-drink, ready-to-mix, ready-to-serve, and ready-to-cook food products. We use ingredients that offer an added value to the development and improve its indulgence and sustainability in terms of its functional ingredients, plant-based food dyes, and natural preservatives with a clean label.

What are the sectors Food Research Lab cover?

We cover a wide range of sectors such as soups, sauces and dips, chips, tortillas, dry beverage powder, plant-based products, masalas, puddings, instant mixes and many more.

How is sensory testing been carried out?

Our sensory examination leads to the precise formulation and recipe recommendations. We develop data-driven design models based on sensory research and customer insights. The fact-based design methodology used by Guires reduces risk and gives our clients market confidence while cutting development time in half. With our dedicated sensory lab facility, our team takes satisfaction in creating and optimizing successful products in the marketplace, generating a favourable return on investment, and developing brand advocates.

Essentials for Becoming a Food Consultant

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10 Mar

Essentials for Becoming a Food Consultant

by Food Research Lab

in RTE & RTC

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What Exactly Is Food Consultancy?

A food and beverage consultant or food consultancy firm is a company that consists of one or more food consultants who provide expert advising services. Through data-driven analysis, these services are projected at assisting and guiding a food business in reaching its core objectives and maximizing its market potential. A Food consulting firm undertakes lucrative activities to provide service to clients.

Food consultancies can provide various strategies, problem-solving, and planning. Process development solutions are frequently included in the scope of work and provide actionable results.

Food Consultants are hired for their expertise and knowledge in the food and beverage industries. A food consultant is a person who uses their expert knowledge in the food industry to offer direction and advice to a firm or an individual. The responsibilities of food consultants vary, but their main goal and objective are to use their skill set to seek answers and make recommendations. Their overall purpose is to deliver solutions to specific business concerns to their clients. These services might range from extending or improving a certain aspect of their company to requiring skills to expand into emerging areas.

Why Do Food Companies Opt For Food Consultancy Services?

There are infinite points that a firm can opt for the services of consultant forms and want access to expertise on demand; these include:

Assist in solving problems in a food production or development process.
Provide unbiased help, such as during product formulations or food innovations.
To obtain access to specialized technologies or services that aren’t available within the company
Have access to expert skills ranging from strategy and operations to food formulation skills
To assist in improving business performance or to provide backup and assistance for entering a new food market.

How To Select A Food Consultancy Firm For Your Company?

The best way to identify food industry consultants is to analyze client reviews and find th ones similar to your needs and requirements. Most food consultancy firms offer generalized solutions, and it is advisable not to choose those consultancy firms since you might not get expert support and professional solutions.

A generalist consulting firm offers various skills and services, from strategy to Consulting and operates across various sectors and projects. Their services do not pertain to just the food industry, and rather they take up clients first and then plan the solution process according to their requirements with a standard general workforce. A specialist consulting firm focuses its expertise on a single skill and industry, such as Food, beverage or nutraceutical.

Consulting For The Food Service Industry

Food product development consultants, or restaurant consulting firms, differ from food and nutrition consultants. They focus more on the business side of food service than the dietary or nutritional side. These consultants may help with menu items, recipes, kitchen organization, architecture, ambience, business planning, personnel training, equipment purchases, and food safety assessments. Although a food service consultant may work just in one place, many food service consultants travel extensively.

Food Research Lab – Global Contract R&D Food, Beverages & Nutraceutical Lab

Food Research Lab provides a range of services to the food, beverage and nutraceutical industries. We have expert food formulation consultants, and most of our clients approach us to formulate and develop new food and beverage products. Consumer habits are always evolving, and food businesses have to keep up with the changing market trends. Many consumers prefer convenience food products-Ready-To-Drink, Ready-To-Eat and Ready-To-Cook food products. To suit such trends, companies have to develop new products or enhance the shelf life of existing products not to lose the market.

Food Research Lab, along with new product development, provides other services. Major services include packaging consulting services, pilot plant contract manufacturing, nutrition testing, recipe and menu development. We are also experts in functional food and nutraceutical product development services.

This service allows clients to tap the health food segment market. This and much more, Food Research Lab is a one-stop solution for all your Food business-related queries.