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Hear what’s shaping the food and drink market - from conscious consumption to new retail models and the balance between health, sustainability, and value. Learn from analysts, strategists, and brand leaders as they share what’s driving consumer choices in 2026 and beyond.
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Explore how science and data are transforming functional foods and dietary supplements - from metabolic health and the microbiome to women’s wellness, fibre, and personalised nutrition. Gain a clear view of the trends shaping tomorrow’s healthier, more sustainable products.
Featuring lead partner:
Taste. Touch. Discover.
Join our signature Tastes of Better programme where ingredient innovation comes life in a range of creative settings.
Connect consumer trends with tangible solutions, meet technical experts, and discover the tastes and technologies inspiring the future of product development.
People. Partners. Possibilities
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Step into the NPD Discovery Zone. Here, innovators and visionaries come together to share what’s possible. From AI tools for recipe development to carbon-neutral ingredients setting new standards in NPD, this curated space offers a glimpse into the breakthroughs that will influence the future of sustainable food and nutrition.
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NPD Discovery Table Talks
Take a seat at these unique roundtable discussions, designed for small groups of peers and experts. These roundtables are intimate, interactive, and enable powerful conversations - they are a space where you can openly share challenges, swap ideas, taste and test new concepts and technologies.
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Who attends
Food Matters Live London will welcome hundreds of the UK and Ireland's product developers, technical managers, food innovators, and nutritionists across brands, manufacturers, retailers, QSRs, and foodservice, including start-ups and scale-ups.
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Heads of, Directors, Senior Manager and Managers in:
We found the sessions very insightful, learnt about some new techniques that are close to our hearts as innovators – I found it inspiring and it was helpful as a networking opportunity also.
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I loved the event. Of particular note was the interactive tasting sessions – the various teams were interesting, knowledgeable and very open to feedback. Looking forward to future events!
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Food Matters Live is a great event to keep on track with the latest and future of the food industry. Friendly and relaxing format for quality networking.
I thought the day was well organised, the venue was nice and spacious and was an excellent choice. The pre-organisation to allocate time slots was a great initiative as I was able to see everything there.
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It was great to attend the event last week, there was a good range of talks on - covering the in the spotlight topics and well organised.
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This was my first Tastes of Better event, and I loved it! I was really impressed by the quality of the sessions, loved hearing trends and insights from different actors in the industry, and enjoyed very much the info (the food and drinks!) provided during the tasting session.
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Thanks to our partners
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