R&D Lab
Product development for food and beverage brands, from first brief to factory-ready recipe.
- Beverages and concentrates
- Foods and snacks
- Nutraceutical formulation
- Shelf life and sensory
Food and beverage R&D in Pune
Every good product starts as a careful experiment.
Utopia Foodworks is an R&D lab and regulatory consultancy for food, beverage and nutraceutical brands. We formulate your product, file it with FSSAI, and put you in touch with a plant that can make it.
- FormulateBeverages, foods, nutraceuticals
- FileLicensing and product approvals
- ManufacturePartner plant in Satara
What we do
Three services, one team. Bring us an idea or a half-finished formula, and we take it to shelf.
Consultancy
We handle the paperwork that slows launches down, so you can sell legally from day one.
- FSSAI licensing and registration
- Product approvals and filings
- Ingredient statements and RDA
- Label and claims review
Manufacturing
We match your product to the right plant and stay with it through pilot runs and scale-up.
- Contract manufacturing
- Tech transfer
- Pilot batches
- Packaging sourcing
How it works
From brief to plant, with one point of contact all the way.
Brief
Your target consumer, price point, claims and format.
Bench
Lab prototypes and tasting rounds until it's right.
Pilot
Small batch runs to check stability and cost.
Paperwork
Category mapping, ingredient statements, licences.
Plant
Handover to a licensed plant for production.
Our own product
water, but better.
We developed bev. in our own lab. It’s a zero-sugar electrolyte drop: one squeeze turns a glass of still water into a flavoured drink with four minerals.
- sugar
- 0 g
- per serve
- 0 kcal
- minerals
- 4
Selected work
Client work stays confidential. What we did doesn’t have to.
Sports nutrition
A custom energy gel for a leading sports nutrition brand
The brand wanted a gel athletes would finish mid-race. We built the formula from scratch, ran tasting rounds, and handed over a spec their plant could run.
- Formulation
- Sensory
- Stability
- Scale-up
Nutraceuticals
Taking a powdered nutraceutical range into production
A multi-flavour powder range needed compliant filings and a licensed plant. We prepared the paperwork for every variant and set up production with our manufacturing partner.
- FSSAI filings
- Ingredient statements
- Manufacturing
Partner
Made with The Veganist Foods.
The Veganist Foods is our manufacturing partner: an FSSAI-licensed food business at Satara Mega Food Park. Products we develop go from our lab bench to their production line without a handover gap.
- Location
- Satara Mega Food Park, Maharashtra
- Formats
- Liquid concentrates, powders
- Role
- Contract manufacturing
Have a product in mind? Let’s put it on a bench.
Tell us what you’re making and where you’re stuck. We’ll come back with next steps and a rough timeline.