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The Ajinomoto Group, a Japanese multinational founded in 1909, is a pioneer in the discovery of umami—the fifth taste—by Professor Kikunae Ikeda, who identified glutamate as its source.
Leveraging its cutting-edge bioscience and fine chemical technologies, the company specialises in food and amino acids, contributing to global nutrition and health under its mission, “Eat Well, Live Well.”
Operating in 34 countries with 116 plants, Ajinomoto applies “AminoScience” to enhance well-being worldwide, integrating tradition with innovation.
For more information, visit Ajinomoto’s official website.
Consumer Lab is one of six innovation hubs – part of the Diet and Health Open Innovation Research Club. The Diet and Health Open Innovation Research Club was established in 2022 to support strategic, collaborative research and development between businesses and academic researchers together with other users of research, policy makers and wider stakeholders. Consumer Lab has received funding to operate for five years from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), with support from DEFRA, Innovate UK and the Medical Research Council (MRC).
Consumer Lab’s vision is to develop a distributed UK-wide ‘Consumer Lab’ (a network of industry and academic members) that improves the ‘ecological validity’ of academic research by studying real-world food choices and forges academic-industry collaborations that focus on ways to assess and understand everyday dietary behaviours.
For more information, visit Consumer Lab’s official website.
Danone are a leading food and drink company with a health-focused portfolio in Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Products, Waters, and Specialised Nutrition. Our mission is to deliver health through food and drink to as many people as possible. At Danone our ‘One Planet. One Health’ vision reflects our strong belief that the health of people and the health of our planet are interconnected. Danone is proud to be a certified B Corp, joining other mission-driven businesses operating as a force for good, doing business in ways that are not only good for their shareholders, but good for their employees, customers, communities, suppliers and the environment. In 2023 we launched a range of new health commitments across our dairy, plant-based and beverages portfolio, including a commitment that at least 90% of our portfolio will not be High in Sugar, Salt or Fat (HFSS). We also have a strong research heritage with world-leading global facilities, to pioneer nutritional solutions for both everyday and special nutritional needs.
For more information, visit Danone’s official website.
The Internat
ional Sweeteners Association (ISA) is an international non-profit organisation with scientific aims representing suppliers and users of low/ nocalorie sweeteners, including tabletop sweetener manufacturers. Established over 35 years ago, the ISA is recognised by the European Commission, national and international regulatory authorities, and the World Health Organization, and has Non-Government Observer status with the Codex Alimentarius Commission which establishes international food standards.
The ISA aims to inform and to educate on the most up-to-date nutritional and scientific information in relation to the role and benefits of low/no calorie sweeteners, and the foods and beverages that contain them. The ISA also encourages research into, and enhances understanding of the role that low/no calorie sweeteners can play in achieving a balanced diet.
Visit ISA website: https://www.sweeteners.org/
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people.
For more information, visit www.pepsico.com, and follow on X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @PepsiCo.
Tate & Lyle partners with food and drink companies to provide consumers with healthier and tastier choices when they eat and drink. Supported by 165-year history of ingredient innovation, the company provides leading expertise in sweetening, mouthfeel and fortification, developing ingredients and solutions that reduce sugar, calories and fat, add fibre and protein, and provide texture and stability.
Science, Solutions, Society is Tate & Lyle’s brand promise and how it will achieve its purpose of Transforming Lives through the Science of Food. The company recognises that society must keep building its collective understanding of nutrition and food science to inform the future development of our food system. In that spirit, Tate & Lyle is proud to partner with expert institutions to drive advancements in the field of nutrition science through its active nutrition research programme, while supporting forums and partnerships that foster collaboration and robust science that provides solutions to the world’s challenges.
For more information, visit Nutrition Centre | Tate & Lyle.
The World Sugar Research Organisation (WSRO) is the leading global organisation focusing on the science of sugars and health. Our aim is to improve worldwide understanding of sugar’s role in health and nutrition. We provide evidence-based scientific information, analysis and perspective on sugar’s role in health and nutrition, to our members and stakeholders. We do this by monitoring global scientific evidence, identifying the scientific consensus, and where the gaps in scientific knowledge are. To fulfil this objective, we support a small programme of peer-reviewed, transparent research. These research projects are undertaken by independent scientific experts in established academic institutions across the globe and published Open Access in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
For more information, visit https://wsro.org/.