About the Guelph Food Innovation Centre (GFIC)
Solving business challenges through the science of food.
Our Approach to Food Innovation
The Guelph Food Innovation Centre (GFIC) offers research services to the food industry that are crucial in driving safety, quality, functionality, and cost-effectiveness needed for products to be competitive in the marketplace.
For food manufacturing companies, the challenge can be to find one place that supports them through the entire process of bringing their food ideas to reality. The GFIC houses many resources under one roof, giving food manufactures the help they need to get their products into production. The GFIC research pilot plants, analytical unit and level 2 biosecurity facility are located in Guelph’s Agri-Food hub.
The GFIC will work with you to plan and execute tailor made solutions to your product and process development challenges. After a project consultation, we will form an interdisciplinary team to work with you.
About Us
The Department of Food Science provides state of the art knowledge translation focused on developing sustainable, safe and innovative foods aimed at improving human health. Research done in Food Science focuses on interdisciplinary studies spanning chemistry, biology, microbiology, natural product chemistry, nanoscience, physics and nutritional science.