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.

Technology-Enabled Smart Packaging - Guires Food Research Lab

08 Aug

Technology-Enabled Smart Packaging

by Food Research Lab

in What Science Can Do

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In today’s food industry, a product’s package is every bit as important as its contents. Today’s packaging can be smart, with electronics installed that provides a variety of functions. Active packaging and intelligent packaging are two types of smart packaging. Active packaging, such as absorbers to remove oxygen from the box, involves adding or removing components into the packaged food or immediate surrounds to improve the product’s shelf life or quality. Intelligent packaging is defined as packaging that can track a product, recognise an attribute of the packaged item or its immediate environment, and communicate that information to the user.

Fig.1. Benefits of Smart Packaging (FutureBridge.com)

Smart packaging offers expanded functions, beyond the traditional need to protect and transport consumer goods. That translates to audio, tactile feedback, and other sensations felt by consumers engaging with an intelligent product container in its most basic form. But smart, interactive packaging is only getting started, thanks to cutting-edge electronic technology capable of sensing and exchanging a wide range of data.

Packaging trends are driven by cost-effectiveness and consumer preferences, therefore smart packaging choices are changing the game for forward-thinking contract packagers. Consumers tend to be willing to spend more for packaging that reflects their lifestyle ideals in quest of supply chain integrity and transparency. As high-volume smart packaging solutions have grown more cheap, intelligent packaging designs have gained traction in the pharmaceutical, automotive, health and beauty, and other specialised sectors. Cost-effective interactive packages are replacing standard solutions across the whole food supply chain as innovation tests new horizons.