Competencies
With a focus on understanding product innovation, health and the enjoyment of food, our group offers a comprehensive range of services.
Using innovative and practice-oriented thinking, we at BFH-HAFL work together with you to develop customised solutions for your issues in sensory evaluation and product development.
With a focus on understanding product innovation, health and the enjoyment of food, our group offers a comprehensive range of services.
Our external specialist panel assists in determining sensory product characteristics and differences. For example, we can help you create a sensory standard or determine the effects on your products’ sensory properties of changes in raw materials or processes used. The objective tests can be carried out in addition to consumer studies in order to obtain tangible information for product optimisation and formulate recommendations.
We use a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate consumers’ deeply hidden attitudes and motives. We have an external consumer panel that we can use specifically for online surveys and tastings. We also offer professionally facilitated focus groups, which give you key insights into the motives and needs of consumers and provide you with a basis for further project steps to be taken.
We are all about enjoyable, healthy and sustainable nutrition for children. Our aim is to help ensure that every child will be able to make correct food choices today and in the future with a view to eating a flavoursome, healthy and sustainable diet. We initiate projects for children and their guardians and aim to actively contribute to identifying diverse needs in food literacy in order to develop requisite programmes. To this end, we collaborate closely with policymakers, scientists and civil society.
We are happy to assist you with any of the following:
In order to develop new product ideas, the BFH-HAFL Innovation Factory brings together target group consumers, entrepreneurs and students.
More information is available at: BFH-HAFL Innovation Factory
We are constantly looking to expand our specialist and consumer panels and are therefore seeking interested people who live in the area. You do not need to meet any special requirements to take part in the consumer panel, but you do need to have a passion for tasting food and helping to shape the future product landscape. You will be remunerated for each test conducted.
Would you like to join our specialist or consumer panel?
We can also advise you on nutritional optimisation (regulatory expertise in nutritional communication, expertise in nutrient profiling (FoP nutrition labelling)).
Our sensory analysis laboratory provides the ability to evaluate products under controlled conditions. It features eleven test booths equipped with EyeQuestion© software (pursuant to ISO 8589:2007). The laboratory is also equipped with red and green lights to mask visual differences between products (depending on the questions considered and the test’s objective).
We are constantly looking to expand our specialist and consumer panels and are therefore seeking interested people who live in the area. You do not need to meet any special requirements to take part in the consumer panel, but you do need to have a passion for tasting food and helping to shape the future product landscape. You will be remunerated for each test conducted.
Would you like to join our specialist or consumer panel?
Fondation Senso5's UMAMI project is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary programme for educating primary school children (4-12 years) on healthy and sustainable eating. Several findings have raised awareness of the importance of improving food literacy at an early age in order to promote changes in dietary behaviour needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Nutri-Score, the voluntary nutrition labelling system introduced in Switzerland in 2019, helps consumers make healthy food choices when shopping. The project investigates how Nutri-Score’s effectiveness can be improved.
The Go-To-Market service is a unique collaborative platform developed to facilitate market access for innovations focusing on new products, concepts and business models. It is based on a diverse network of showcase partners, such as school canteens, caterers and pop-up shops, which offer companies the opportunity to test their innovations under real-life conditions.
Are you interested in collaborating with us or do you have any questions about our activities in the areas of innovation, sensory evaluation and nutrition? Please don’t hesitate to contact us.