Business of Beverages

A matter of taste: How FlavorActiv killed "The Man From Del Monte"

February 17, 2025·51 min
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode you'll learn how product taste testing went from a status driven lottery (where one mythical taster/ "man from Del Monte" could decide on the quality of a whole batch) to a systematic quality tool for companies to improve their products and people. After a brief break, we return with an in-person interview with Richard Boughton and Tom Brown from FlavorActiv, the leading sensory solutions company. We discuss how the "dream job" of product tasting in a brewery/...

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