616: Swicy, clean label, and the TikTok effect: Inside the Flavour & Colour Lab at Food Matters Live
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The episode explores innovations in the flavor and color industry, highlighting trends influenced by social media and product development challenges.
In this episode, we enter the Flavour and Colour Lab at Food Matters Live London 2026. Five conversations with the companies shaping what food tastes, looks and feels like. From raw material shortages and botanical extracts, to a Dragon's Den success story built on TikTok trends and a bath bomb-shaped meal base that's found its way into Ocado. We find out how the raw material pressures reshaping the flavour industry right now are leading to new product developments. We get the full story behind the bath bomb-shaped meal base that started on TikTok, appeared on Dragon's Den, and just launched in a major supermarket. And how a baking powder that's been around for 175 years, is re-inventing itself. If this has whet your appetite for next year’s Food Matters Live events - you can already register your interest to partner with us in London and Rotterdam. Just head to foodmatterslive.com We would like to clarify that, due to an internal communication error regarding session timings, Tina Faghihi-Hallam from Flavour Bombs was unable to join the live panel discussion at Food Matters Live as scheduled. Tina was present at the event and ready to participate, and her absence from the stage…
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