Tech for Taste

Tech for Taste

Tim Hammerich
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich.

Some impactful ag technologies may not be built for the farm level. All along the agricultural value chain are opportunities for innovation. What crops we grow, for example, are driven by what foods people want to eat, which is in large part attributed to what tastes good. That’s why startup company Aromyx wants to digitize taste in order to help bring better foods to the market, says CEO Josh Silverman.

Silverman… “So there are 30,000 new food and beverage products brought into the marketplace around the world every year. On average, it's two to three years, (and a) couple of million dollars of R&D that goes along with that. But on average, there's only about a 20% success rate. So 80% of those 30,000 products every year are not on the shelves a year later. So we can help the companies design these products, but then we can also help them target and market. How do you communicate and show them, you know, with a science-based approach, right? Not just a marketing line of, 'Hey, you know, this plant-based product tastes great'. It's no it tastes great for X, Y, and Z reasons. And we think, you know, based on what we know about you as a consumer, these are the things that will resonate with you to really drive and that take that 20% success rate and drive it up to something that's a little bit betterhopefully.”

Silverman hopes this technology will be applied to everything from new food products to new varieties.

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