Food Product Development Experts

Want to create your first food product or reformulate an existing one? The CuliNEX team can help!

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Food Product Development Experts

Want to create your first food product or reformulate an existing one? The CuliNEX team can help!

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.

The CuliNEX Difference

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 have a deep immersion in the food landscape. Food is our passion. Flavor is our forte. That’s become our reputation and the reason clients not only turn to us but depend on us time and time again. We leverage our expertise, holistic approach, rigorous process, and scientific knowledge to drive to one thing: undeniably delightful foods and spot-on solutions.

If you are looking to create the next big thing in food, our team can help!

Food is Our Passion
Our Specialty

Our Specialty

We are first and foremost experts in food product development and formulation. 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.

Areas of specialization include:

  • Clean label
  • Plant-based
  • Organic and natural ingredients
  • Functional ingredients
  • Allergen sensitivities
  • Upcycled and sustainable ingredients
Solutions Tailored to Your Distinct Needs

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 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.

Putting Your Vision in Focus

Developing With the End in Mind

Developing innovative yet commercially viable products means gathering the right insights and taking ideas from concept to shelf.

  • Technical review
  • Ingredient sourcing
  • Benchtop prototypes
  • Sensory evaluation
  • Contract manufacturing search
  • Consumer testing
Developing With the End in Mind

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.

Innovation: Finding the Convergence Zone

Client Testimonial

CuliNEX provides our team the much-needed outlet for product innovation and development when we are at capacity. They bring flavor development, technical and process knowledge and a network of ingredient and manufacturing relationships that complements and adds to our capabilities. I trust them to deliver on their commitments with great results, and they are so easy to work with.

— Steve Marko, Senior Director R&D

Tillamook County Creamery Association

Some of our

Valued clients

The Incredible Egg' project, showcasing versatile egg-based culinary innovations.
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General Mills
Benson Hill
Blue Diamond Growers
Bolthouse Farms
Ingenuity Foods - Brainiac
Brazi Bites
Bulletproof 360
California Almonds
California Strawberry Commission
Ciranda
Conifer Foods
Crunch Pak
The Eggcelerator Lab
Hormel Foods
JADA
Jennie-O Turkey Store Sales LLC
Ketchum
La Panzanella
Love Grown Foods
Lucini
Main Lobster Collaborative
Montmorency U.S. Tart Cherries
Nestle
Olam
Oregon Food Products
Porter Novelli
Potatoes USA
Rebellyous Foods
Rhizome Network
RIND Snacks
Simple Mills
Specialty Rice
Starbucks
Sterling-Rice Group
Sunsweet
T.O.P. Chops
Tillamook County Creamery Association
Tree Top
Tyson
US Highbush Blueberry Council
Vital Farms
Weber Sandwick
Wegmans
Whole Foods