Nataly Lopez Baron
Manager at Guelph Food Innovation Centre (GFIC)
Canada
About
The Guelph Food Innovation Centre (GFIC) solves business challenges through the science of food. As your innovation ally, we provide customized solutions that help food businesses—from startups to established brands—develop, validate, and scale their ideas. GFIC is located at the University of Guelph within the Department of Food Science, which is ranked #1 in Canada and 18th worldwide for food science and technology. GFIC offers a one-of-a-kind combination of scientific expertise, pilot plant facilities, and analytical services to bring your innovations to market faster. Want to work with us? Please fill out the contact form on our website to provide more information about your project, and mention you heard us through Surch Foods.
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Turn your food or beverage idea into a shelf-ready product. From concept to formulation to scale-up, we help you create innovative products that stand out in the market.
Through GFIC, you can collaborate with world-renowned faculty and advanced research capacity to gain the expertise, data, and innovation to support your project needs.
GFIC’s pilot-scale facilities give you the tools, expertise, and flexibility to accelerate your path to market. Test, validate, and scale your product with confidence at every stage.
Discover how your product performs over time with tailored shelf-life and challenge studies—backed by science to ensure safety, quality, and consumer appeal.
Gain precise, science-backed insights into your product with GFIC’s analytical testing services, whether you want to optimize your formulation, meet regulatory compliance, and more.
Ensure your product meets Canadian labelling standards with GFIC’s calculated Nutrition Fact Tables (NFT). We deliver fast, accurate NFT results you can trust.
Recommendations
Chris Badanjak
Owner at Villain Sauce Co.
“GFIC has helped with getting my products tested for various items to ensure the products were safe for consumption, as well as shelf stable. Having these tests completed by a reputable organization allows us to feel confident that our products are indeed safe.”
Tatiana de Abreu
CEO & Founder at Sunday Funday
“Since collaborating with GFIC in 2023, their team was able to elevate Sunday Funday's mimosa recipe. Their lead scientist, Derek along with his team reviewed our current profile and were able to rebuild this based on our specific requirements and our market research. This allowed us to elevate our current recipe, sharpen the taste and ultimately succeed at entering LCBO's incubator program.”
Prabh Singh
Founder at Frontline Nutrition
“GFIC accomplished everything I needed in regards to my vision of creating a drink. From finding the right flavors, sweetness and colors, to nailing down the consistency, solubility and the exact process that I would be using to produce my drinks on a large scale. They were able to solve all the problems encountered during the process and connect me with suppliers for all my ingredients. Their knowledge, expertise, and professionalism is highly commendable and I could not have ended up in better hands than the GFIC.”
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