West London
Food Innovation Centre
Welcome
The West London Food Innovation Centre offers a range of services to companies in the food and beverage sector.
Whether you’re a new company or an established food manufacturer, our ethos is to bridge the gap between food and science by supporting you from initial concept stage through to prototype development and in some cases, pilot plant research and development trials.
Find out more about:
Our centre
Technical lab
We have a range of equipment that measures, characterises and analyses the structure, texture and physical properties of food and beverage products. This information can then be used at early product development stages, durning formulation and/or during benchmarking of other products.
Product development kitchen
Our product development kitchen is extensively equipped with high performing equipment to facilitate the product development process, from standard equipment right through to equipment for novel prototype development across various categories.
Sensory analysis
Our sensory analysis facility includes:
- 6 tasting booths
- Controlled lighting, interior and airflow
Our services
The West London Food Innovation Centre (WLFIC) can help you develop new and existing formulations and/or reformulations, line extensions, and help make cost improvements to produce your desired product.
Together we can turn your innovative ideas into winning products using our product development kitchen, science lab and sensory evaluation facility.
Our expert team at the WLFIC combines science and culinary expertise, which can help you bring your concepts to products in our facilities enabling you to re-produce your concept successfully.
Our team
Sebastian Stoklosa
Sebastian is the New Food Product Development (NPD) Chef at the West London Food Innovation Centre. Sebastian has over 10 years of experience within the hospitality industry and is extremely passionate about food innovation and consistently evolving food market.
Sebastian earned a foundation degree in Science from London South Bank University, graduated from Westminster Kingsway College with BA (Hons) in Culinary Arts and Business Management, and graduated from University of West London with MSc in Food Business Management.
As a NPD Chef, Sebastian provides expertise to food and beverage trades to improve their product lines using innovative food development techniques. He believes that driving forward innovations that supports new food trends will help shape the current customer demands.
WLFIC in the media
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Contact us
If you have any questions or queries about our services please contact us:
- email: foodinnovation@uwl.ac.uk
- phone: 020 8231 2657