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Creating a great tasting and sustainable plant-based product can be a complex, costly, and challenging process. Learn from an expert speaker line-up on how to master savory taste to create winning plant-based food.

Topics include:

  • Taste the difference; consumer sensory analysis of plant-based red meat 
  •  Perfecting savoury taste in plant-based food 
  •  Live discussion with the trailblazers of the plant-based revolution

Speakers

Daniel Protz

Founder & CEO, FlavorWiki

Omar Lechuga

Research and Development Director, Kerry

Edmond Scanlon

Chief Executive Officer, Kerry 

Seth Goldman

Co-Founder and CEO, Eat the Change
Co-Founder, PLNT Burger 

Spike Mendelsohn,

Chef and Co-Founder, Eat the Change and PLNT Burger

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