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What is the NPD Discovery Zone?
Home to scale-up ingredient innovation and cutting-edge business services, the NPD Discovery Zone is a unique opportunity to connect with pioneering companies at the forefront of food innovation, experience their latest products and discuss their ingredient applications.
Partners will showcase their latest food ingredient solutions at dedicated exhibition stands—custom-designed spaces that highlight their brand and innovations.
These stands provide attendees with the opportunity to explore cutting-edge developments up close, engage in in-depth discussions with experts, and discover how these solutions can be applied to their own product development.
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Meet the partners
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Solution: Fibres, prebotiocs, proteins plant-based alternatives
About: Cosun is a cooperative with a long heritage in unlocking the full potential of plants and creating value across the entire food chain. We’re now taking the next step by building one global ingredient platform, uniting our work in fibres & prebiotics, proteins, and plant‑based alternatives allowing faster innovation.
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Solution: Upcycled ingredients - DuyGrain®: Upcycled Barley Protein, delivers both sustainability and performance in various foods. it offers high fibre and protein, low fat content, and valuable functional properties that support today’s product‑development challenges.
About: Duynie unlocks value in every resource. Their upcycled ingredients are developed at scale to help the food industry reduce Scope 3 emissions. From improving Nutri‑Scores to enhancing taste and texture, reducing cost‑in‑use, and enabling clean‑label formulation, DuyGrain® helps manufacturers innovate sustainably.
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Solution: Nextida® GC, a specific collagen peptide composition developed to support metabolic wellness offering a science-backed, safe, versatile ingredient for glucose control and GLP-1 natural boosting.
About: Rousselot launched Nextida® GC, a specific collagen peptide composition developed to support metabolic wellness. Growing awareness of healthy lifestyles and the global metabolic health trend has fuelled interest in glucose control and GLP-1 supplements. Nextida GC represents a new frontier in collagen technology.
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Solution: Clonbio Foods officially launch their new PurusPro® Barley Protein range at Food Matters Live to support the next generation of cross-category plant-based product development.
About: PurusPro® Barley Protein brings together high nutritional value, a mild cereal taste, and a competitive price point, offering a smart, scalable solution for developers. It is suitable for a wide range of applications including baked goods, cereals, snacks, and pasta & noodles, enabling protein enrichment without compromising on taste, texture, or affordability.
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Solution: Introducing Fermtech’s first product, Koji Cocoa™, transformed from cocoa side streams into a high-fibre ingredient with an authentic cocoa taste, up to 98% lower CO₂ and 25-33% cost saving vs standard cocoa.
About: Fermtech uses natural Koji fermentation to developing high-performing, great-tasting, affordably sustainable ingredients. Applying biology to fibrous crop side streams, it creates ingredients that are authentically delicious, naturally nutritious and affordably sustainable, all from what's already grown. Fermtech’s products also include baking flavours and coatings from side streams of barley and beet, and seasonings and savoury flavours from oats and wheat.
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Solution: Carbon negative microalgae ingredients including Novo Protein™, Pure Blue™ and BioSolar Spirulina™ designed to meet the needs of sustainable product development.
About: Arborea will showcase how carbon-negative microalgae can be a source of complete amino acid and highly digestible proteins, bioactive vitamins, and minerals (such as iron, magnesium, zinc, B-vitamins), omega-3 fatty acids, and even carbohydrate feedstock for other food processes. Meet the team to explore application use in sustainable protein, natural colours, bioactive nutrients, clean-label beverage ingredients, dairy alternatives, reduced-sugar chocolate and more
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Solution: Fermotein®, a hero ingredient which is a nutrient-dense mycelium powder, sustainably produced through biomass fermentation.
About: In one wholefood ingredient, Fermotein®, delivers 50% protein (PDCAAS 1.0), 30% fibre, essential micronutrients, and naturally concentrated spermidine. Highly versatile across active nutrition, better-for-you food, and dairy alternative applications, Fermotein® is recognised by Vitafoods as a startup finalist for the Most Innovative Nutraceutical Ingredient.
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Solution: A range of botanical extracts, distillates, infusions and purées designed to deliver ultra clean label, high-fibre innovation across flavour, functionality and sensory modulation.
About: Blue Sky Botanics showcases how botanical extracts can unlock next-generation product development, featuring its Best of British collection alongside globally sourced botanicals. With fully transparent supply chains ensuring quality and traceability, their solutions support applications across beverages, dairy, savoury, bakery and non-alcoholic categories - from concept through to launch.
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Solution: Trend-led flavour concepts and natural ingredient solutions spanning beverages, savoury, bakery and desserts, designed to inspire NPD and push category boundaries.
About: Uren Food/Aromatech presents a series of forward-thinking concepts inspired by UK market trends, including piquant, mood-led soft drinks, globally influenced dipping sauces and innovative bakery and dessert applications. Showcasing a broad portfolio of natural flavours, juices, purées and IQF fruits and vegetables, their offering is supported by the expertise of their Innovation team, delivering end-to-end recipe development.
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Solution: Phosphate-free leavening systems designed to enhance natural colour, optimise cocoa, and improve structure and consistency across bakery applications.
About: Kudos Blends is a UK-based manufacturer of baking powders and chemical leavening systems, working with industrial bakeries to solve formulation and process challenges at scale. Combining expertise in chemistry and baking, the team supports NPD across a wide range of applications, from cleaner-label reformulation to phosphate reduction and aluminium-free systems. Kudos Blends works closely with manufacturers to optimise and scale solutions that deliver consistent aeration, texture, and shelf life in production.
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Solution: Presenting Valio EILA speciality milk powders that are lactose free, designed for food manufacturing, offering e.g. improved digestibility, better texture, and flexibility for creating high-protein or reduced-sugar products.
About: Valio is a leading Finnish dairy and food company offering natural dairy ingredients for the food and nutrition industry to meet consumer’s evolving nutritional and lifestyle needs. Company serves customers globally with solutions from early life through active adulthood to longevity. Valio’s dairy ingredients address key trends including digestive wellness, sugar reduction and protein enrichment, enabling manufacturers to innovate with confidence. Solutions are used across diverse applications, from active nutrition to dairy, bakery, confectionery, ice cream and ready meals.
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Solution: An AI-enabled product lifecycle management platform that connects concept, formulation, sourcing, production and sales, helping food and beverage businesses accelerate time to market, improve collaboration and ensure compliance.
About: Centric Software is a Silicon Valley-based provider of solutions for fast-moving consumer goods companies. Known for its industry expertise and innovation, it supports brands, retailers and manufacturers with high user adoption, strong customer satisfaction and rapid time to value.
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Solution: Sustainable, plant-based protein and fibre ingredients upcycled from broccoli, enabling clean-label reformulation, nutritional enhancement and cost-effective product development across multiple food categories.
About: UPP Freya upcycles surplus broccoli to create scalable, non-novel ingredients that support healthier diets and lower environmental impact. Designed around circular supply chains, its model helps growers reduce waste, manufacturers reformulate with ease, and brands meet sustainability and Scope 3 targets.
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Solution: Discover how Revyve's yeast proteins can deliver the cost reductions you’ve been looking for in your deli foods. Their heat-stable emulsions can be used in high or low fat sauces and condiments. There will be tasters made with the Revyve yeast protein, without egg and modified starches. Try for example the spicy jalapeño hamburger sauce or the rich and creamy cheese dip.
About: Revyve, a food tech scale-up that has raised €40 million, develops highly functional yeast proteins that mimic the functionalities of eggs, dairy proteins and additives across a wide range of applications. Their ingredients deliver superior emulsification, gelling, foaming and binding. This allows food manufacturers to make reduced cost formulations and de-risk their supply chain, whilst being allergen free and clean label.
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Solution: A unified digital platform connecting R&D, quality, regulatory and suppliers, enabling faster product development through shared data, improved collaboration and compliant-by-design innovation.
About: TraceGains is a global SaaS platform supporting food and beverage brands, manufacturers, and suppliers with product development, supplier collaboration, and regulatory compliance. 1,500+ global brands including nearly half of the world’s top 100 food and beverage manufacturers rely on TraceGains to connect people, data and processes across the supply chain, reduce risk, and support faster, more resilient innovation.
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Food Lifecycle Management SoftwareAbout:
Trusted by manufacturers and retailers since 2007, Point74 is the leading provider of Food Lifecycle Management Software — known across the industry as Recipe Professor. Used by 1 in 5 of the UK’s top food brands, Point74 empowers food businesses to digitise product development, transforming how products are designed from concept through to launch on a global scale.Together, Point74 and QUOR offer the industry’s most comprehensive digital ecosystem for food product development and quality management, enabling teams to work faster, smarter, and with complete confidence in their data.
What to expect from the NPD Zone
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Gain direct insights
Gain first-hand insight from the innovators and ingredient experts shaping the future of food and nutrition, with the opportunity to ask questions and explore the thinking behind the latest developments.
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Discover ground-breaking ingredients
Discover cutting-edge ingredients driving healthier, more sustainable product innovation - from functional advances to breakthrough formulations ready to transform NPD pipelines.
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See applications for food products
See real-world applications brought to life, showcasing how innovative ingredients translate into commercially viable food and drink products that meet evolving consumer demands.
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