IFF to fast-track food ingredients technology in the new Nourish Innovation Lab in the US

August 22, 2022 — International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) has inaugurated its newest US-based Nourish Innovation Lab at the company’s Union Beach, New Jersey R&D center. In the state-of-the-art laboratory, scientists – including tasters and food designers – use tools, technologies and ingredient knowledge to provide customers with complete product design.

“In the Nourish Innovation Lab, IFF serves customers using the full portfolio from IFF, which includes proteins, mastics, conditioners, sweeteners, spices, functional ingredients, cultures and enzymes,” said Mauricio Poulsen, VP of Global Innovation, Creation & Design, in a statement. Nurosh, IFF.

“The Innovation Lab supports the creation and design needs of all key categories including snacks, beverages, confectionery, confectionery, dairy, pharma and oral care. The site is a global center for enabling technologies, including a full-scale sensory and consumer insights lab, as well as an analytics lab.

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The Nourish Innovation Lab is one of a series of “disruptive investments” IFF is making to expand its co-creation capabilities.

The 160,000-square-foot Union Beach facility includes a botanical garden, a sensory science wing and a pilot manufacturing facility.

The 160,000-square-foot Union Beach facility has served as IFF’s original flavor and fragrance research center for more than half a century, and includes a botanical garden, a sensory science wing, and an experimental manufacturing facility.

Located in the greater New York City area, the lab integrates IFF R&D projects with consumer-driven business applications, with a special focus on promoting health, sustainability and the circular economy.

IFF scientists co-innovate with customers throughout the entire process, allowing for customer feedback and faster commercialization. “We nurture a creative project from concept to kitchen table under one roof,” said Nicolas Mirzayants, president of Nourish IFF.

“Using our scientific expertise, application excellence and comprehensive portfolio of ingredients, we will improve the taste and nutritional profiles of the next generation of foods and beverages,” he continues.

With our new Culinary Kitchen, a technology focused on the consumer dining experience, we’re taking food development out of the traditional laboratory setting and into the kitchen.

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Adam Janczuk, International Research and Development Nourish at IFF, highlights this latest step as a development to help the company work “lock-level” with customers.

We are proud of this achievement, which closely follows our regional innovation centers in Latin America and our plant-protein-focused culinary design center in Brabrand, Denmark.

In light of the global shortage of sunflower oil, IFF has recently released practical ingredients to help reduce oil waste while maintaining the quality of food production. The ingredient maker’s Nourish division also added a nutrient-dense hydrocolloid from red seaweed to stabilize plant-based milks.

Among other highlights, IFF partnered with Israeli food technology startup SimpliiGood by Algacor Technologies to produce the first commercial smoked salmon analog from a single ingredient – ​​whole fresh spirulina.

The company has completed the acquisition of Health Rite Products.

Edited by Benjamin Ferrer.

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