The Guelph Food Innovation Centre offers applied research services to extend and enhance your product innovation. With vast knowledge on the latest food technologies and industry standards, we provide feasible, data-driven solutions that solve your technical challenges, allowing you to bring competitive products to market.

Our areas of expertise in product development include:

• Ice cream/frozen dessert technology

• Extrusion, including expanded snacks, cereals, and meat analogs

• Characterization of food systems

• Appraisal and Testing of novel ingredient applications

• Validation of ingredient substitutes, including plant-based or clean label alternatives

• Diagnosis and correction of formula defects