Your R&D data is likely the most valuable asset your food company isn’t using.

You protect patents, brands, and trade secrets. But years of bench notes, spreadsheets, sensory panels, pilot runs, and stability tests often sit fragmented across labs and drives—rarely analyzed as a whole. The result: slow iterations, repeated experiments, and missed launches.

That’s changed. With modern Data Science and ML (including surrogate models, active learning, and multi-objective optimization), “sleeping” R&D data can predict outcomes before you run the next trial, cut iteration cycles, and de-risk launches.

Leading R&D orgs now report 20–40% faster time-to-market and 30–50% productivity gains when they wire AI into product development workflows. 

It’s not theoretical in Food & Beverage either:

• Mondelez has applied AI to 70+ recipe projects, accelerating formulation and cutting validation time—bringing new SKUs to market 2–5x faster than traditional methods.

• PepsiCo used AI trend sensing to launch Off The Eaten Path seaweed snacks in <12 months and rolled out immunity-focused Propel in six months. 

What changes when you activate your lab data?

• Predict performance (texture, stability, shelf-life) before wet-lab.

• Explore larger design spaces with AI surrogate models instead of costly physical trials.

• Optimize for multiple objectives at once (cost, label claims, nutrition, sensory).

• Reduce trial-and-error and accelerate spec lock with quantified risk.

How Elytra helps ?

We turn fragmented R&D histories into a predictive engine for Formulation & Process teams—so you make fewer, smarter experiments and move from hypothesis to launch faster.

Prefer a relaxed, no-pressure chat first?

Curious but not ready to commit—totally fine. DM “Coffee” and we’ll book a 20-minute virtual coffee to walk through benchmarks, relevant use cases, and what a low-risk first sprint could look like for your team. No pitch—just clarity.

Sources: McKinsey—AI in R&D impact (time-to-market & productivity), Mondelez AI in recipe development, PepsiCo AI in product innovation. 

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