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.
Challenge
As part of our goal to be a global leader in well-being snacks, we are always looking for new technologies that allow us to improve the nutrition and ingredient profile of our products. We believe that there are ingredient opportunities to be unlocked from nature's pure, potent and raw goodness that can give maximum taste and health value.
We are looking for:
- Ingredients that are plant-based or plant-derived, or sustainable and/ or are upcycled & have a positive impact on the environment
- Technologies that help preserve the wholesome, natural benefits of these ingredients
Key Success Criteria:
- High quality nutritional value and properties
- Consumer friendly label
- Consumer acceptable color, taste and texture
- Preference will be for commercially available / ready to deploy solutions
Possible Approaches:
- New processing technologies that can maintain the integrity of fruit and vegetable (nutritional value & color)
- Fruit or vegetable fillings with real fruit or vegetable pieces,
- Dried/ ambient stable fruit or vegetables, purees, pieces or powders
- Neutral flavoured legume sources
- Unique grain processing technologies (example puffed, sprouted, extruded, grits, crisps)
- Upcycled ingredients
- Ingredients that are more sustainable than their traditional counterparts
What we are not interested in:
- Genetically modified ingredients or E-numbers
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.
At this stage, we're open to various types partnerships but would prefer ready-to-commercialize or late phase development solutions. Initially, submitted solutions that require an incoming-NDA will not be considered.
In this space Mondelez is willing to collaborate with both individuals/freelancers and other industry participants/universities etc.
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.