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.

Meet the partners

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.

Cosun

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.

Duynie

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.

Rousselot

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.

Clonbio Foods

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.

Fermtech

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

Arborea

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.

Protein Brewery

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.

Blue Sky Botanics

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.

Uren Food/Aromatech

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.

Latest featured NPD Discovery Zone partners

 

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