Expertise

Overall protein consumption is predicted to nearly double by 2050. We are shifting from food security to protein security, and meeting it sustainably requires alternative sources. Whether plant, cell-cultured, precision-fermented or insect proteins, we help you navigate the options and pick what works for your product.

What we do

• Portfolio scouting across plant, cell-cultured, fermented and insect proteins
• Sourcing and testing strategy tailored to your application
• Validation support from lab trials to industrial scale

We combine palatant innovation experience from the petfood industry with academic expertise in applied food enzymology. We help you decide and test the right portfolio of industrial cat and dog food palatants, or walk the full journey of developing your own.

What we do

• Screening and scaling down industrial palatant options for your needs
• Sourcing and testing strategy
• Own-palatant development: research question, DOE design, trials, industrialisation strategy

Enzymes help create value-added products with improved taste, smell and techno-functional properties, but choosing the right one is not easy. We interview you to understand your needs, then guide your tests to a best-fit portfolio.

What we do

• Needs assessment and enzyme selection
• Access to leading manufacturers' portfolios, application spectra and operating windows
• Guided testing at appropriate, and safe, operating conditions

Insects offer a sustainable alternative to ease the supply of quality animal protein. Through ongoing market research we have identified the key players and the key farmed insects, and we know how insect materials rank against plant and animal proteins.

What we do

• Market and player mapping from our ongoing research
• Product catalogue and benchmarking against plant and animal proteins
• Formulation for specific petfood applications, including safety assessment