Flavour and colour are where science meets creativity. As consumers seek foods and drinks that combine health with enjoyment, sensory innovation is becoming central to product development. Across two days, uncover emerging innovations and global trends shaping taste experiences across food and drink categories, and next-generation nutrition solutions. Including multi-sensory product design, clean-label natural flavour and colour solutions, overcoming functional formulation challenges, and how flavour and colour strategy can differentiate brands.  Selected sessions will include guided sensory experiences.

Explore the programme

Please note that sessions within the Flavour and Colour Lab are delivered in scheduled streams at the following times: 9:45-10:45, 11:00-12:00 and 16:00-16:45

We kindly ask that, when attending a session, you plan to stay for the full duration of the stream to ensure the best experience for both speakers and attendees.

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11:00
  1. 15 mins
    • 3rd June Session 2: The Global Flavour Exchange
    Global flavour trends can spark growth but only if brands know which will stick. Unpack the flavours set to shape the market, why some resonate with British consumers, and how to separate short-term h …
11:15
  1. 20 mins
    • 3rd June Session 2: The Global Flavour Exchange
11:35
  1. 25 mins
    • 3rd June Session 2: The Global Flavour Exchange
    Global flavours are driving consumer excitement but turning food culture into scalable, profitable products takes more than inspiration. This panel explores how brands adopt global tastes into the mai …
16:00
  1. 45 mins
    • 3rd June Session 3: Multi-Sensory Design: Enhancing Taste through the Senses
    Flavour isn’t just about taste, it’s shaped by sight, sound, texture, temperature and smell working together. Bringing flavour psychology to life through live multi-sensory demonstrations, this sessio …
09:45
  1. 15 mins
    • 4th June Session 1: Natural Flavour and Colour Innovation
    Discover how fermentation unlocks bold, natural flavour while strengthening clean-label and sustainability credentials. Drawing on culinary and scientific innovation, this session shows how brands can …
10:00
  1. 15 mins
    • 4th June Session 1: Natural Flavour and Colour Innovation
    Natural colour is becoming a commercial advantage as artificial colours are phased out and regulations continue to tighten. Explore colour house solutions to help brands create bold, stable natural co …
10:15
  1. 30 mins
    • 4th June Session 1: Natural Flavour and Colour Innovation
    Explore how clean-label expectations are reshaping flavour and colour design, turning reformulation into a commercial opportunity rather than a constraint.
11:00
  1. 15 mins
    • 4th June Session 2: Flavour Innovation with Wellness Driven Formulations
    This session explores why reducing sugar, fat or salt — or adding functional ingredients — so often erodes indulgence, and how flavour, texture, aroma and expectation work together to create pleasure. …
11:15
  1. 20 mins
    • 4th June Session 2: Flavour Innovation with Wellness Driven Formulations
    Unpack how colour and flavour trigger emotional and sensory cues that make functional food and drink feel indulgent.
11:35
  1. 25 mins
    • 4th June Session 2: Flavour Innovation with Wellness Driven Formulations
    This session explores how food and drink brands balance indulgence and functionality when flavour and colour are under pressure from reformulation.
16:00
  1. 45 mins
    • 4th June Session 3: The Future of Sensory Branding
    Bompas & Parr will take guests on a journey into the polysensory universe.

With thanks to our partners, including:

Speakers include:

Food Matters Live London

3-4 June | Olympia, International Convention Centre