CMPL Expo Mumbai 2026 · 4–6 May · JWCC
Body OS — Building for the Way India Will Eat in Future
From consumer trend to product concept — built live in the room
About the Workshop
The way Indian consumers think about food has fundamentally changed. It's no longer about just taste, or even health in a broad sense. It's about what food actively does for the body — today, specifically, for me. Protein for recovery. Gut health for immunity. Adaptogens for stress. Fibre for metabolic balance. Consumers are treating their bodies like an operating system that needs to be maintained, upgraded, and optimised through what they eat. This is what Body OS means — and it is the single biggest shift reshaping F&B product development in 2026–27.
The opportunity is real across every F&B category — food, beverage, snacking, functional formats, QSR, cafe. But the failure rate is high. Everyone is building for this consumer. Almost nobody is getting the product, the taste, and the compliance right at the same time. Products fail not because the idea was wrong — but because the brief was wrong before development even began, or because the claim couldn't survive FSSAI scrutiny after the product was already made.
Savore puts both problems in the same room. Innovation and compliance. Product and regulation. Brief and launch-readiness. Two experts, four stations, one product concept you leave with in your hand.
What Happens
Four live stations. No slides. Hands on throughout.
The Body OS Brief
You receive a real consumer insight — built around personalised function, metabolic health, gut-brain axis support, or a fast-moving beverage or snacking trend — and must build a product concept around it. Format, hero ingredient, claim, price point, target consumer. Teams present, Ritesh deconstructs what works and what doesn't.
The Mouthfeel Challenge
Reformulating for health without killing taste is the single hardest challenge in F&B NPD right now. You taste and evaluate real reformulated products — sugar-reduced, fibre-fortified, protein-enhanced, functional beverage formats. What's landing, what isn't, and how do you fix it without losing the consumer or the claim? Mouths involved. No slides.
The GLP-1 Opportunity
Weight-loss drugs are quietly rewriting what consumers want from food globally — smaller portions, higher satiety, different ingredient expectations. It is already affecting buying behaviour in markets Indian brands export to, and it is coming here faster than most people think. This station maps what it means for your existing portfolio and where the new product opportunity sits — and what you can actually claim around it under FSSAI today.
FSSAI Claims Gauntlet
Five next-generation claim territories on the table — gut-brain axis support, GLP-1 companion nutrition, adaptogen-enhanced beverages, fibre-forward metabolic health, postbiotic fermented formats. Which are permissible under FSSAI today? Which needs clinical backing? Which are coming but not cleared yet?
Subha leads this station — as one of FSSAI's own national resource persons, this is not a general overview. This is the real answer, from someone who trains the regulators.
The Closing Brief
Every attendee leaves with one thing: a one-page product brief for a product that didn't exist when they walked in — built on 2026–27 science, with a defensible FSSAI claim, a mouthfeel specification, and a target consumer who actually exists. The mentors review one live in the room.
The brief is where most F&B products die. This is where yours gets written right.
What You Leave With
A real, usable one-page product brief.
Clarity on which 2026–27 claim territories are winnable under FSSAI right now.
Direct input from two of the most experienced practitioners in Indian F&B — across innovation, product development, and regulatory compliance — in a room of under 50 people.
Who Should Be in This Room
Conducted By
Ritesh Mathur
FOUNDER
F2F FOOD AND BEVERAGE CONSULTANTS
- 20+ years in R&D, NPD, and QSR product development
- Patents and publications in functional food and beverages
- End-to-end consultancy for cafe chains and QSR brands
Focus Areas
Functional Food · NPD · Beverage Innovation · QSR
FT Subha Nishtala
FOUNDER
FOOD ADROIT
- 25 years in food safety, regulatory affairs & quality operations
- National VP, AFST(I) — trains FSSAI regulatory officers
- 400+ trainings across HACCP, ISO 22000, and FSSC 22000
Focus Areas
FSSAI Claims · Food Safety · Regulatory Compliance
One innovator. One regulator. Both in the room with you.
Workshop Details
Duration
~2 hours
Time
2:45 – 4:15 PM
Date
4 May 2026
Venue
Jio World Convention Centre, BKC
Format
4 Live Stations
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