Clean Label Food Product Development
Want to create a new clean label food product or alter an existing one? Our team has you covered!
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Clean Label Food Product Development
Want to create a new clean label food product or alter an existing one? Our team has you covered!
Contact Us
The CuliNEX Difference
CuliNEX is a leading food product development organization delivering delicious clean label and plant-based foods at the leading edge of technology and innovation.
Providing an array of food development solutions to launch, reformulate and revive new and emerging brands, CuliNEX partners with clients of every size, from emerging brands to multi‑billion‑dollar CPG companies, ingredient manufacturers, commodity boards and commissions, retailers and foodservice operators.
The team at CuliNEX puts food first, offering more than 250 years of combined experience and expertise, to deliver culinary creativity—from breakthrough benchtop concepts through production.
Food is Our Passion
Our diverse staff of leading culinary and food science professionals are some of the freshest thinkers who not only spot trends, but help you create them. This is where the next-big-thing happens and where your success begins.
We are first and foremost experts in food product development. Our experience in nearly every food category allows us to achieve deliciousness day in and day out. We develop our products with the end in mind, building within a framework of feasibility to increase successfully moving from benchtop to production line. Bringing great products to life comes naturally at CuliNEX. We are masters at reformulating and refining processes to optimize existing products.
Clean Label Food Product Development & Ingredient Sourcing
Since 2005, the CuliNEX brand has grown right alongside the rise in clean label foods. CuliNEX pioneered a focus on clean label food formulation, and we continue to be at the forefront, delivering delicious and appealing products that are commercializable.
Areas of specialization include:
- Allergen sensitivities
- Organic ingredients
- Natural ingredients
- Non-GMO ingredients
- MSG-free ingredients
- Functional ingredients
- Upcycled ingredients
- Sustainable ingredients
- Ethically sourced ingredients
- Locally sourced ingredients
- Globally sourced ingredients
What Does ‘Clean Label’ Mean to Us?
We have spent decades mastering clean label formulating, from restaurant kitchens to benchtop development to production and operations. We can help you create flavor-forward culinary offerings with ingredients that consumers can pronounce and are proud to serve.
Culinary craftsmanship
Smart, solutions-based food science
Ingredient statements that are simple and easy to understand
Meaningful and factual marketing claims
Natural and responsibly sourced ingredients
Balanced ingredient choices with performance and flavor
Sustainable ingredients and upcycled sources
Understanding and measuring harvest practices, agriculture regeneration, origin, footprint, and corporate responsibility
Clean Label Solutions Tailored to Your Distinct Needs
No solution is one-size-fits-all. Innovation by its very nature means exploring the unexplored. Come to us wherever you are in your clean label food development project, however complex your challenge or opportunity. Together we’ll establish your unique differentiation and turn it into that breakthrough solution that sets you apart.
Putting Your Vision in Focus
Creating flavorful innovations takes robust formulation, thorough testing, thoughtful ingredient sourcing and deep knowledge of production. Whether you are cleaning up labels, making better-for-you food, creating the next big thing in plant-based, or optimizing your formula or process, our experienced team can help plan a project to suit your vision.
Innovation: Finding the Convergence Zone
While we take a no-holds-barred approach to ideating, your bottom line is always our top priority. A big idea is only big if it’s going to make it in-market. You don’t want to waste time or money on ideas that ultimately prove to be a dead end. We have deep insider knowledge and the practical understanding to weed out those initial creative sparks that simply don’t have lasting power, helping you look between the lines of what’s trending and that one really great idea you can run with.
Collaboration Never Stops
We strive to be your seamless development partners throughout the project to rapidly iterate prototypes. This delivers real-time feedback from consumers and stakeholders and hone your concepts. You can even join us on the bench if it inspires you. Access our network of clean label ingredient suppliers to find the right ingredients no matter the volume or how rigorous the requirements. Get buy-in from stakeholders with samples for internal meetings, key presentations, trade shows, or consumer validation before commercialization. Then, sleep well at night knowing all the intellectual property we develop remains yours.
Client Testimonial
In recommending CuliNEX to others, we would say their expertise in the food space and organized process are incredibly impressive. We’ve come across many others that have promised results in various areas that have been subpar. From the beginning, CuliNEX demonstrated a clear understanding of our product, the ingredients we used, and the expectations for our market. They demonstrated a systematic approach of how they would go about making improvements and kept us updated throughout each step. We had complete faith throughout that they would be able to deliver to help us reach our goals.
— Maynard Okereke, COO
JADA Brands
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