Would you like to walk down a supermarket aisle one day, pick up an innovative new food or beverage and say, “I made that”?

New food products are the result of highly-skilled teams of product developers working in packaging, testing, sensory evaluation or nutrition.

You might develop gourmet pre-prepared meals for busy families — or take away that is healthy for you. You could be involved in inventing easy-open packages for the aging baby-boomer population or help overweight children by resizing product packages and servings to suit their needs.

You will need to understand the behaviour of ingredients and their contributions to foods and know the properties of the major food components in relation to food properties, storage stability and nutritional properties of foods.

Jobs in this area will see you at the front line of food product development and trends.