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    Food & Nutrition Application & Development Center

    Delivering smart ingredient solutions for your application challenges

    We understand finding the correct functional ingredient for your application can be a challenge. For this, we are at your service in the universe of food: delivering smart solutions and innovative approaches that strike the right balance, from a product’s taste and texture to its appearance and shelf life. Our goal is to assist customers by developing formulation solutions, helping them respond to changing market demands.

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    At the forefront of formulation and application development

    The Food & Nutrition Application & Development Center is equipped and staffed to conduct ingredient qualification, food application testing, and prototype development, focused on strategic products and applications.

    Our wide range of technical capabilities for food applications and functional ingredients include:

    • Application assistance
    • Comparative analysis
    • Formulation advice
    • Key parameter testing
    • Process optimization
    • Raw material and ingredient recommendations
    • Starting point formulas

    View our Application & Development Center in the United States

    Learn more about Brenntag North America's Food & Nutrition Application & Development Center in this short video.
    • Why we offer technical services

      Why we offer food and nutrition laboratory services

      We understand it's important to continue building a strong technical interface by keeping up with the latest cutting-edge innovations and market trends. For this reason, we're able to bring significant product development and applications knowledge into formulations for our customers.

      Our teams will help you achieve cost optimization and flexibility with alternative ingredients or develop innovative technologies in a wide range of areas:

      • Food safety and traceability
      • Food technology and innovation
      • Health and nutrition
      • Global ingredient sourcing
      • Food applications laboratory support
      • Logistics
    • What we offer

      Food application and development capabilities

      • Baked goods
      • Beverage
      • Confection
      • Formed meat
      • Dairy
      • Meat analogue
      • RTE foods
      • Frozen foods
      • Sauces and dressings
      • Nutrition bars

      Functional Ingredients: proteins, starches, hydrocolloids, binders, sweeteners, colorants, flavors, acidulants, nutrients, bulking agents, preservatives, and emulsifiers

    Meet our team of Food & Nutrition scientists

    Asim Syed, Food Applications Research & Development Director

    Asim Syed

    Food Applications Research & Development Director

    Asim leads the Food & Nutrition application research and development team. He is responsible for supporting business growth by providing technical leadership to the sales teams as well as technical support to producers and customers. The application and development center will be adequately equipped and staffed to conduct ingredient qualification, food application testing, and prototype development, focused on the strategic products and applications.

    Marly Sumayong, Senior Food Scientist

    Marly Sumayong

    Senior Food Scientist

    Marly leads the Brenntag North America’s Food & Nutrition Application & Development Center in Canada. She is responsible for coordinating various initiatives and food projects across the region, and she specializes in natural colors, fruit prep, bakery fillings, pectin, sweet flavors, and confectionery.

    Terry Wagner, Senior Food Scientist

    Terry Wagner

    Senior Food Scientist

    Terry is quite experienced in the areas of soups and sauces, emulsions, ready-to-eat food, frozen desserts, and more. As part of the Food Research & Development team, he works with customers to formulate solutions.

    Trevor Nichols, Food Scientist

    Trevor Nichols

    Food Scientist

    Trevor has over 7 years of experience focusing on the development of new release aid and processing aid for industrial and food service customers. At Brenntag, he focuses on food safety and quality, microbial shelf-life, antimicrobials, pan release agent, processed meat, and pet food.

    Norm Schute, Technical Development Manager

    Norm Schute

    Technical Development Manager

    Norm has over 35 years of experience in the food industry. He has a strong focus on hydrocolloids, cyclodextrin, emulsifiers, antioxidants, and general food applications. As part of the Food & Nutrition team, he works with our sales team and customers to identify your formulation needs and provide innovative solutions.

    Beeta Little, Technical Development Manager

    Beeta Little

    Technical Development Manager

    Beeta has over 25 years of market knowledge and experience in the food and nutraceutical industries. She has a strong concentration on enzymes, prebiotics, probiotics, sports nutrition, powdered beverages, brewing, micronutrients, and fruit and vegetable processing. Beeta brings formulation solutions to the changing market demands of our customers.

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    Ask our food scientists

    Our food scientists are always up for helping out our customers. Get answers to your food and ingredients related questions from our technical experts!

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    Combined with market leading distribution excellence and infrastructure of the Brenntag Group

    Through this, Brenntag’s Food & Nutrition is at your service along the entire supply and development value chain.

    We know how important it is to have a safe and secure supplier of ingredients to keep your production running efficiently: Our partners benefit from Brenntag’s distribution excellence and supply chain infrastructure. We have an unparalleled product offering, and work with the best suppliers in the industry. We deliver on Brenntag’s safety and sustainability promise and reduce your compliance burdens, thereby fulfilling the ever-growing safety, quality, and regulatory requirement that we all face.

    Fully committed to complying with the industry’s ever-growing safety and quality requirements, all our facilities adhere to ISO standards and HACCP food safety regulations, and we will procure the full documentation and accompanying certificates for each product.

    Get in contact

    Looking for application assistance or help with choosing the perfect product for a formulation? Our food and nutrition experts can help, especially our lab personnel.

    Simply fill out the form and a representative will contact you shortly.

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