Product Development

At BESTMIX, we understand the challenges posed by ever-growing consumer demands, climate pressures, and evolving regulations. More than ever, we are confident in the added value our solutions and integrations bring to the industry. Through continuous research and close collaboration with our customers, we deliver highly advanced, and customizable solutions tailored to meet unique needs, particularly during the product development phase in feed or food-producing companies. One of our flagship solutions, BESTMIX® Recipe Management, empowers users to manage recipes with precision while generating accurate product specifications and labels in a secure environment. This ensures full compliance with regulations and helps avoid costly recalls. The solution also enables swift responses to fluctuating raw material costs, ingredient availability, and purchasing positions—factors crucial for efficient and cost-effective product development. With BESTMIX, converting recipes into tangible products becomes seamless, all while maintaining the highest standards in formulation, regulatory compliance, climate impact, and labeling.

Uncovering key product development challenges in the nutrition industry

Developing high-quality feed and food is no easy task. Manufacturers must balance the need for optimal nutrition, compliance with stringent regulations, and rising demands for sustainability—all while managing costs. The goal is to deliver effective solutions that meet market demands, support health, and align with environmental and economic pressures.

Ensuring the right nutritional balance is a critical yet complex task. In the feed and petfood industry, you must cater to the specific needs of different species, life stages, and production goals. Under-delivering on nutrition can compromise animal health and performance, while over-formulation unnecessarily increases costs. Additionally, there's a need for precision nutrition to optimize animal health and performance. In the food industry, you must carefully balance nutritional quality with consumer expectations, regulatory requirements, and production efficiency. Delivering products that meet health standards and dietary trends—such as low sugar, high protein, or allergen-free options—while maintaining flavor, texture, and shelf life is vital. Over- or under-formulation in food products can not only impact costs but also affect consumer trust, market competitiveness, and compliance with labeling standards.

At the same time, manufacturers must navigate evolving regulations across regions that govern ingredient safety, labelling, and compliance. Failing to meet these standards can result in delays, costly reformulations, or restricted market access.

Adding to these challenges is the growing expectation for sustainable practices and cost control. Consumers and stakeholders increasingly prioritize eco-friendly products, but transitioning to sustainable ingredients or processes can drive up production costs. Meanwhile, rising prices for raw materials, logistics, and energy strain profit margins further. The industry must innovate and adapt to deliver affordable, sustainable, and effective feed and food, striking a balance between market demands and operational constraints.

How can BESTMIX help you?

Let us introduce Recipe Management, BESTMIX's revolutionary product development solution!

BESTMIX^® is the most advanced formulation system available, transforming hours and even days of work into mere minutes. Our solution optimizes your entire productionlink text chain across all recipes and facilities, factoring in both nutritional and legal requirements, while prioritizing cost-effectiveness and sustainability. BESTMIX^® offers a level of operational efficiency that is hard to achieve without.

BESTMIX® Recipe Management takes into account the impact of the production process onlink text the nutritional and functional properties of your ingredients. By estimating the effect of enzymes and drying, amongst other things, in advance, you can easily and quickly formulate the most cost-efficient recipes.

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Due to the cost and availability of premium ingredients, formulating high-quality feed and food requires a careful balance between ingredient cost and nutritional quality. Investigating alternatives to these high quality - high cost ingredients (such as novel insect proteins) can be done with a click of a button in our solution. By being able to more frequently and accurately re-formulate the end products based on the actual market situation, you can save on inventory and raise your margin.

Controlling moisture levels of your final product has never been this easy. With our solution, you can calculate drying effects right from the formulation stage—at both the ingredient and recipe levels—eliminating uncertainty from the start. This effective moisture management ensures pellet stability, extends shelf life and minimizes nutrient leaching, overall enhancing feed efficiency.

Raw materials can vary greatly in quality, depending on the origin, supplier and various other factors. This variability requires agility and insight to keep formulas on point. With real-time data at your fingertips, you’re prepared to adapt quickly. By regularly sampling and analysing the nutrient content of incoming ingredients, you build a rich database on raw material quality over time. Then, when it’s time to incorporate these materials in production, BESTMIX makes it easy to update your ingredient matrix instantly using your own gathered data. This dynamic approach ensures formulators are always working with the latest, most accurate data and empowers your team to handle ingredient variability with confidence.

As the demand for efficient, nutritious, and cost-effective feed grows, sustainability has become a crucial factor in feed and food formulation. At BESTMIX, we recognize sustainability as a key driver for the future of the animal feed and nutrition industries. Our solution enables users to integrate sustainability directly into their formulations, helping reduce environmental impact without compromising on nutritional value or cost efficiency. By assessing the environmental footprint of your production process and strategically adjusting nutritional formulations, BESTMIX empowers you to create feed and food that maximize value while minimizing ecological impact.

Provide extra service to your customers by giving them easy access to BESTMIX in the cloud. This convenience allows for real-time collaboration and by offering your customer valuable resources at their fingertips, you not only strengthen customer loyalty but also position yourself as a trusted partner in their success.

As a producer, compliance with strict regulations — such as label legislation and GHS regulations—is non-negotiable. These rules dictate the accuracy, transparency, and safety information required for all products, ensuring they meet international standards for both quality and safety. By using the built-in compliance tools in BESTMIX, you can seamlessly adhere to these regulations with each batch produced.