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.

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Organic Blueberry Smoothie

Organic Blueberry Smoothie

Food Research Lab formulated a smoothie powder that had fine particles sizes that contributed to the free-flowing rheology of the product. The smoothie powder can be mixed with water or any suitable beverage making it a good ready-to-drink RTD beverage product.

Our client wanted to include organic blueberry as the predominant ingredient in the smoothie powder since they owned and cultivated acres of organic blueberries.

We freeze-dried blueberries so that they could be frozen in sealed containers or freezer bags. Freeze-dried blueberries will keep their finest quality for about 12 to 18 months if stored properly but safe for longer.

Rinse your fresh or frozen blueberries and arrange them on a baking pan lined with parchment paper. There is no specific recipe for this; bake your berries at a low temperature until they reach the desired dryness level. The longer it takes to dry things, the lower the temperature you use.

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The blueberries took 5 hours to dry to a chewy consistency using convection at 170 degrees Fahrenheit. At that low of a temperature, it takes around 8 hours to dry completely. We removed the smaller berries as they dried since they were firm.

The Blueberries dried entirely in 1 to 2 hours as we increased the temperature to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. We then pulverized the blueberries to a fine powder.

On its own, the dried blueberry powder doesn’t have much of a blueberry flavour. To get the authentic blueberry flavour, it needs a little sweetener, just like fresh blueberries. The dried blueberry powder has a tangy flavour that is akin to citrus zest on its own. So we added sweeteners, natural preservatives and permitted food-grade colours to meet our client specifications. The organic blueberry powder can be made into a smoothie, consumed as a cold drink, or add toppings.