With ever-increasing consumer demands for brands to develop and innovate their product range, Professor Jason Stokes tells us why deep research and development into the connection between product structure, properties and manufacturing processes, is a vital component to long-term market success for food and beverage companies.

Food production is required to scale continuously to keep up with rate in which population is growing. Plus, the way in which food is produced needs to be more sustainable to protect the future of the planet for the generations to come.