Background
At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right. We will lead the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.
With increased awareness of health and wellbeing among consumers, the food industry is facing increasing pressure to deliver healthier and sustainably made food products that provide the desired eating experience. The right level of tastes (e.g. sweetness and bitterness) is one of the key drivers for overall liking of many snacks, such as chocolate and biscuits.
Challenge
Mondelez are looking for experts or innovative technologies (in-vivo and in-vitro) that can characterize the dissolution process of taste compounds , such as sucrose and bitter compounds, during oral processing of foods.
To activate the taste receptors and be perceived as sweet or bitter, taste compounds need to be dissolved in saliva. Hence, taste perception is primarily due to the dissolution of soluble particles, such as sucrose, in snacks. However, it is not clear how taste compounds are dissolved in the saliva during eating, and how the change in taste compounds concentration in the saliva affects overall taste perception. The lack of this knowledge makes it difficult to design products with the optimum release and perception profile when developing new recipes or evaluating new ingredients for health and wellbeing purposes.
We would like to work with you to improve our knowledge and capability in this area.
What's in it for you?
A successful collaboration could mean, for individuals, becoming part of the wider Mondelez group, while for organisations, forming a potential partnership with one of the world’s most iconic brands to co-develop and co-launch the idea to market.These are global challenges and Mondelez are willing to collaborate with both individuals/freelancers and other industry participants/universities etc. and solutions can be at any stage of development.
If you have or are developing solutions, or if you have expertise in the above, please click "Apply" to submit your solution/expertise to the Network.