On July 31, during the 15th National Nutrition Science Conference, the "Chinese Nutrition Society-PepsiCo Nutrition Innovation Center" jointly established by PepsiCo and the Chinese Nutrition Society was officially unveiled.
The leaders of the Chinese Nutrition Society and PepsiCo, as well as experts and scholars from the domestic nutrition industry attended the unveiling ceremony.
("Chinese Nutrition Society-PepsiCo Nutrition Innovation Center" was officially unveiled)
The "Chinese Nutrition Society-PepsiCo Nutrition Innovation Center" will integrate the resource advantages of industry, university and research institutes to jointly promote scientific research and innovation in the food and beverage industry, and contribute to the national policy of science and technology innovation in China and healthy China.
It is reported that the center has also declared the first batch of scientific and technological innovation bases in China. In the future, experts from PepsiCo’s R&D team and nutrition science and technology service team will conduct scientific research on topics such as whole grains, sports nutrition and “three reductions”, focusing on local Development and innovation of nutritious and healthy food.
The establishment of the Nutrition Innovation Center will help both parties to integrate their advantages in technology research and development, open up industry-university-research and empower the supply chain through the sharing of technical data resources, and also help focus on healthy nutrition research in the field of food and beverage technology.
Xie Changan, CEO of PepsiCo Greater China, said: "For more than 40 years, PepsiCo has been focusing on consumers and has continuously increased local investment, local innovation and R&D investment. The establishment of PepsiCo Nutrition Innovation Center is the company's development in China. It is one of the important measures for the industry. Under the guidance of Science and Innovation China, we will work with the Chinese Nutrition Society to promote the development of nutrition and health in the industry, explore the transformation of scientific research, and better enhance the innovation and competitiveness of the food and beverage industry.”
(Ms. Xie Changan, CEO of PepsiCo Greater China, delivering a speech)
Yang Yuexin, chairman of the Chinese Nutrition Society, said that the Chinese Nutrition Society is willing to build innovative platforms and bridges, build technical services for resource integration and supply-demand connection, and support PepsiCo to join in the systematic project of improving residents' nutrition and health.
Further leverage the resource advantages of China Association for Science and Technology's "Science and Technology Innovation China" brand, strengthen front-end scientific research empowerment, and organically combine with PepsiCo's industry-university-research integration to guide the development and innovation of nutritious and healthy food, so that technology can better serve economic development and the construction of a healthy China .
(Professor Yang Yuexin, Chairman of the Chinese Nutrition Society, delivered a speech)
As an academic group formed by the national nutrition science and technology workers, the Chinese Nutrition Society is an important social force for the development of China's nutrition science and technology undertakings.
Since the China Association for Science and Technology proposed to create the "Science and Technology Innovation China" brand, the Chinese Nutrition Society has actively explored the highly integrated industry demand and technological innovation, promoted the development of nutrition disciplines and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and opened a new chapter of in-depth cooperation in nutrition innovation.
As one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, PepsiCo has always paid attention to the health needs of Chinese consumers.
In 2012, PepsiCo established its largest and most integrated R&D center in Asia, the PepsiCo Asia R&D Center, to accelerate the research and development of healthy foods such as nutritious cereals and products with reduced sugar, fat and salt.
In recent years, PepsiCo has made continuous efforts in the field of food nutrition innovation. Quaker products won the "iSEE Award Global Food Innovation Award" for two consecutive years in 2021 and 2022.
For example, Quaker has discovered the main consumer demand for cereal products through big data, and has a keen insight into consumers' new taste requirements for salty cereals, and has innovated and developed a salty cereal track; The insight of Chinese nutrition and health preservation, Quaker industry first created Quaker 5 black, 5 red and 5 white new oats, leading a new nutrition boom.