Nutrition Consultancy Services for Food Businesses

Our specialist nutrition consultancy helps food businesses and health organisations unlock competitive advantage through expert insight in nutrition strategy, product innovation and commercial impact.

Lead Consultants Prof Danielle McCarthy RNutr and Anna Wheeler RNutr bring over 40 years combined experience, providing nutrition consultancy expertise across food manufacturing, food retail, food tech, pharma, trade associations, professional bodies, universities and community organisations.

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Through our Nutrition Talent community of 1,400+ nutrition professionals, we can bring together the specialist nutrition expertise needed to meet each organisation’s requirements. This gives clients access to diverse expertise and additional resource, tailored to the scope and scale of each project.

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Incredible! Thank you so much for this, we really appreciate all the effort you have put into this report. We have made an important commercial decision based on the information. It was much needed advice to help along the way.

Chief Operating Officer, FMCG company

Danielle and Anna worked with colleagues across our business to support the development of our health and nutrition guidelines, create diverse colleague wellbeing initiatives and worked collaboratively with our chefs to improve the nutritional composition of our menus. Their insights enabled us to take new approaches, and it was very useful to inform future areas of focus, communication routes and activities.

Senior Nutritionist, Large food catering company

It has been a pleasure to work with Nutrition Talent. Anna’s help and support has been brilliant when setting up a new brand, and her help to highlight possible risks as well as opportunities has provided us with confidence when moving into a new area. She is a truly integral part of our team, and great to work with.

Senior Innovation Manager, FMCG company

I wanted to say a big thank you now we have finished the scientific rationale. It was a large, complex piece of work and your consultant worked hard on it and was a pleasure to work with. She was professional, flexible and the output is of high quality.

Senior Manager, FMCG company

Now that everything’s being posted and wrapping up, I just wanted to say a big thanks for all your help on this campaign. You’ve been brilliant to work with, very thorough and I really appreciate all your detailed feedback.

Marketing Manager, FMCG company - support for an influencer social media campaign, ensuring recipes met specific health criteria and communications were credible and compliant.

Our nutrition consultancy services

Our nutrition consultancy services span strategy, innovation, product development, science, communications and stakeholder engagement. We tailor our approach to the needs of each client, from focused expert input through to complex, multi-stage projects.

1. Nutrition and health strategy

We work with businesses and organisations to develop and implement evidence-based nutrition and health strategies that align health ambitions with commercial priorities. Combining nutrition expertise, industry insight and creative thinking, we help clients identify opportunities, set direction and translate strategy into action.

2. Nutrition stakeholder engagement and collaboration

We help clients engage with relevant experts and stakeholders across nutrition, health, industry, academia and other sectors. Bringing together diverse perspectives can inform strategy, strengthen nutrition initiatives, identify opportunities and challenges, and support greater impact.

3. Food and nutrition innovation, product development and brand support

We provide specialist food and nutrition expertise to support innovation, helping brand teams, product developers and other functions translate health and nutrition ambitions into commercially relevant products, services and propositions.

Our support can include:

  • Innovation, reformulation and NPD support
  • Nutrition and health claims expertise
  • Nutrition input into product and brand strategy
  • Horizon scanning for nutrition and health trends
  • Nutrition training
  • Policy and regulatory insights

4. Nutrition and health communications

We help organisations communicate nutrition and health information with clarity, credibility and impact. Our support spans nutrition messaging, brand storytelling and campaigns across audiences including consumers, customers, investors and health professionals.

5. Nutrition science, research and evidence

We help clients understand and apply the latest nutrition science and research relevant to their business or organisation. Our nutrition consultancy support includes literature and evidence reviews, research summaries, scientific insights and support with research projects, partnerships and scientific rationale development.

6. Public health, employee wellbeing and societal impact

We support organisations seeking to deliver positive health outcomes for employees, consumers and communities. Our nutrition expertise can inform employee wellbeing programmes, public health initiatives, ESG strategies and corporate social responsibility programmes.

Specialist food and nutrition consultancy expertise

Nutrition Talent has extensive experience applying nutrition expertise within the food sector, including food manufacturing, retail, foodservice and food tech. We understand that nutrition decisions need to work in the real world — balancing scientific evidence and health outcomes with consumer needs, regulation, operational realities and commercial priorities.

Our food and nutrition consultancy work can span strategy, innovation and reformulation, NPD, nutrition claims, policy and regulatory developments, scientific evidence, communications and stakeholder engagement.

Looking for specialist nutrition expertise? Talk to us about how our nutrition consultancy can support your strategy, innovation or wider health ambitions.

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Nutrition consultancy case studies

Explore examples of how we have supported organisations with nutrition strategy, innovation, research, communications and other specialist nutrition projects.

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Consultancy case studies

Nutrition consultancy areas of expertise

Our consultancy projects draw on a wide range of specialist nutrition expertise. We work with each client to develop a tailored brief and identify the expertise and approach best suited to their needs.

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For further insight into how nutrition expertise can support health, innovation and business, explore the Nutrition Talent podcast.

How our nutrition consultancy works

  • Flexible expertise: From focused expert input to complex, multi-stage projects, we tailor the level of nutrition support to your requirements.
  • Specialist resource: Nutrition Talent and our community of 1,400+ highly qualified nutrition professionals give clients access to diverse expertise and experience.
  • Different ways of working: Support can range from ad-hoc consultancy and additional team resource to defined projects and longer-term partnerships.
  • A tailored approach: Every project starts with a conversation to understand your objectives, challenges and requirements before we recommend an approach.

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Why Choose Nutrition Talent?

  • 40+ years combined experience
    Applying nutrition expertise across food, health and related sectors.
  • Access to 1,400+ nutrition professionals
    Giving clients access to specialist expertise and different levels of experience according to project requirements.
  • Independent perspective and extensive networks
    Bringing external insight, cross-sector perspectives and access to a broad stakeholder network.
  • Science with commercial understanding
    Combining robust nutrition expertise with an understanding of innovation, consumers and commercial realities.

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