Product Development Process

Optimization of Lead Compounds and Selection of Product Candidates.

The next step in our process is to enhance, or optimize, our lead compounds to allow lower amounts of the compound to be used in the finished product or improve the enhancement effect to meet the taste attribute goals of our collaborators. Optimization may also be required to enhance the safety profile or to improve the physical properties of a compound so that it is stable under manufacturing, storage and food preparation conditions. We refer to optimized compounds that provide desirable taste attributes in packaged food and beverage product prototypes as product candidates. Working in conjunction with our collaborators, one or more product candidates are selected for development activities intended to support commercialization.