Vitagora Taste Nutrition Health
Vitagora Taste-Nutrition-Health is the Europe’s foremost centre for the sciences of taste, at the crossroads of the food industry and health professions. An innovation cluster based the in French regions of Burgundy and Franche-Comté, Vitagora acts as a gateway for its members onto a remarkable pool of public and private sector scientific research and project development expertise.
A world leader in the sciences of taste and focused on the key issue of our future nutritional needs, Vitagora leads a powerful network of R&D capabilities based around 4 key strategic areas :
- Taste throughout life: perceptions, behaviours, learning...
- Developing and preserving consumer health
- Formulation, processes and materials at the service of taste and nutrition
- Production of agricultural raw materials: impact on taste and nutrition
With a practical approach focused on the consumer and firmly market oriented, Vitagora aids its members in their innovation activities, from R&D to market launch.
In October 2009, 100 projects are under management within Vitagora, including 43 projects which have been funded and launched:
Thanks to its program of development on both a national scale (the creation of the French national cluster, F²C Innovation) and internationally (delegations regularly visiting other countries and the annual organisation of the Taste-Nutrition-Health International Congress in Dijon), Vitagora has developed a worldwide network of SMEs, multinational corporations, researchers, technical centres and higher education establishments.
Examples of projects currently underway:
- Functional food products for seniors
- Food preferences of babies and toddlers
- Optimisation of probiotic products
- Active packaging for the food industry
- Optimisation of the taste and health properties of pure grape juice
- Understanding the oral perception of lipids, impact on metabolism
Find out more:
Contact:
Marthe Jewell, Communication Manager
Email: marthe.jewell@vitagora.com
Tél: + 33 (0)3 80 78 97 92
Port.: +33 (0)6 60 65 87 16 |
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