Our Services

Unlock Ingredient Potential. Drive Smarter Product Development.

At SPG Innovation, we help food manufacturers and ingredient suppliers understand and optimise the performance of functional ingredients. Our testing services provide actionable insights that accelerate product development, reduce formulation risk, and enhance innovation.

🌟 Why Work With SPG?

• Accelerate Product Development
  Use functional data to fast-track formulation decisions and reduce costly trial-and-error.
• Reduce Risk
• Support Your Customers
  Provide your clients with robust, application-specific data that builds trust and drives adoption.

🔬 What We Do

We conduct targeted testing to evaluate the techno-functional properties of ingredients under real-world conditions. This includes:

• Solubility
  Assessing how well an ingredient disperses in various solutions, critical for beverages, soups, and sauces.
• Gelation
  Measuring gelling behaviour under different conditions, key for meat analogues, dairy alternatives, and bakery.
• Foaming
  Evaluating foam formation and stability, important for desserts, protein shakes, and confectionery.
• Emulsification
  Testing the ability to form and stabilise emulsions, relevant for sauces, dressings, and plant-based products.
• Water & Oil Binding Capacity
  Understanding moisture and fat retention, vital for improving texture, succulence, and cook yield.

🧠 Why It Matters

Functional performance data turns ingredients into innovation tools. Whether you’re developing nutrient-rich, clean-label, or sustainable products, our insights help you make informed decisions that lead to better, more consistent outcomes.

👉 Let’s explore your ingredient’s full potential.
Contact us to create a bespoke testing plan tailored to your product goals.

Accelerate Innovation. Reduce Risk. Launch Smarter.

At SPG Innovation, we help food brands and manufacturers bring better products to market, faster and more sustainably. Our pilot scale extrusion R&D and manufacturing service is built around speed, flexibility, and scientific precision, enabling you to test, refine, and launch with confidence.

🚀 Why Work With SPG?

• Faster Time-to-Market
  Rapid prototyping and small-batch production help you move from concept to shelf in record time.
• Lower Development Costs
  Our pilot-scale 19mm twin-screw extruder allows for cost effective trials (less ingredients) and short runs, ideal for testing new ideas without full-scale investment.
• Reduced Risk of Failure
  Launch better products the first time with expert formulation support, ingredient optimisation, and sensory performance testing.
• Sustainable Innovation
  Reformulate with clean-label, plant-based, or upcycled ingredients to meet evolving consumer and regulatory demands.

🧪 What We Do

We specialise in extrusion-based food R&D, offering hands-on support and scientific insight to develop:

• Cereals
• Snacks – direct, pellet & micropellet
• Textured Vegetable Proteins (TVP) – high- and low-moisture
• Popped rice cakes
• Plant-based and functional food formats

Our team of food scientists and extrusion technologists work closely with you to:

• Create and refine new product formulations
• Replace unhealthy or unsustainable ingredients
• Optimise texture, structure, and nutritional value
• Conduct ingredient trials and market-ready prototyping and small scale manufacturing

🤝 Partner with SPG Innovation

Whether you’re a startup testing a bold new concept or a global brand reformulating for sustainability, SPG Innovation provides the tools, expertise, and agility to help you succeed.

👉 Let’s co-create your next breakthrough.
Get in touch to explore how our extrusion expertise can power your product development journey.

On-Demand Food Science. Practical Solutions. Project Success.

At SPG Innovation, we provide flexible, expert-led technical consultancy to help food businesses overcome challenges, deliver complex projects, and bring scientific rigour to innovation, without the overheads of in-house labs or full-time R&D teams.

🌟 Why Work With SPG?

• Access Expertise When You Need It
  Bring in senior-level food science and technical support without the cost of permanent staff or equipment.
• De-Risk Grant-Funded Projects
  We support grant writing, project planning, and delivery, ensuring your innovation projects stay on track and meet funding requirements.
• Solve Technical Challenges Faster
  From troubleshooting, we help you find practical, science-backed solutions.
• Strengthen Non-Technical Teams
  Add deep technical knowledge to teams led by entrepreneurs, marketers, or commercial leads, bridging the gap between vision and execution.

🧠 What We Do

Our Technical Consultancy service covers:

• Food Technology & Process Support
  Troubleshooting, ideation, ingredient selection & sourcing, process optimisation, and technical input across a wide range of food categories.
• Project Management for Innovation
  Especially for grant-funded R&D, we help write, review, and manage applications and delivery, reducing admin and increasing success rates.
• Scientific Input Without the Overheads
  Access food scientists, regulatory support and formulation experts without investing in labs or full-time hires.
• Operational Excellence
  Improve product consistency, reduce waste, and streamline production with expert technical insight.

🤝 Partner with SPG Innovation

Whether you’re scaling up, applying for funding, or solving a technical bottleneck, SPG Innovation offers the flexible, expert support you need to move forward with confidence.

👉 Let’s make your next project a success.
Contact us to explore how our technical consultancy can support your goals.

Optimise Protein Performance. Accelerate Product Innovation.

At SPG Innovation, we help food manufacturers and brands unlock the full potential of protein ingredients. Our Protein Consultancy service is designed to reduce development risk, speed up innovation, and ensure your high-protein foods and drinks meet both functional and consumer expectations.

🌟 Why Work With SPG?

• Faster Product Development
  Expert guidance on protein selection and formulation reduces trial-and-error and accelerates time-to-market.
• Lower Risk, Better Results
  Launch better products the first time with the right protein for your application—backed by science.
• Tailored Ingredient Support
  We help you source, test, and tailor protein ingredients to meet your product’s nutritional, sensory, and processing needs.
• Plant Protein Expertise
  Extensive knowledge of plant-based proteins, including diverse crops, nutritional breakdowns, amino acid profiles, digestibility, and functional behaviour in real-world food systems.

🔬 What We Do

Our consultancy covers the full spectrum of protein-focused R&D:

• Ingredient Functionality Testing
  Evaluate how different proteins behave in your specific application—texture, solubility, emulsification, and more.
• Interpretation & Application Advice
  We don’t just test—we translate results into clear, actionable recommendations for your product development team.
• Formulation Optimisation
  Improve texture, taste, and nutrition while maintaining processing efficiency and label appeal.
• Sustainable Protein Innovation
  Support for incorporating alternative, upcycled, or novel proteins to meet sustainability and health goals.
• Plant-Based Protein Strategy
  Identify the best plant proteins for your product, understand their amino acid composition, and optimise their use in formulations for maximum performance and consumer appeal.

🤝 Partner with SPG Innovation

Whether you’re launching a new high-protein snack, reformulating for plant-based appeal, or exploring novel ingredients, SPG Innovation provides the scientific insight and hands-on support to help you succeed.

👉 Let’s build better protein products together.
Contact us to explore how our protein expertise can support your next innovation.

We are extremely knowledgeable in food regulations due to our experience of taking innovative foods to market. We have particular expertise in the preparation of dossiers for novel foods’ submissions.

We have an excellent working relationship with the regulatory body and can support all the requirements of your project in this area.

Our collaboration with Global Regulatory Services (GRS) also means that we have access to regulatory expertise across the globe in all sectors of life sciences.

In our food grade facility in Nottingham, we have the expertise and capabilities to support product development in food. Capabilities include extrusion, popping and texturization of proteins. Our team has wide-ranging expertise in food and consumer goods from early-stage development through formulation to scale-up manufacture and ultimately translation into factory. Alongside these skills and knowledge, we also have the regulatory expertise to accompany this journey for you, ensuring all products reach the market compliant with regulatory standards in place.