Khalifa Fund announces the F&B innovation lab 2.0 outcomes with a new UAE product going to market

Khalifa Fund announces the F&B innovation lab 2.0 outcomes with a new UAE product going to market

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Khalifa Fund and the F&B Manufacturers Business Group (FBMG) have announced the final results of the ‘F&B Innovation Lab 2.0’ - a programme aimed at discovering, guiding, and mentoring the UAE’s up-and-coming innovators within the F&B ecosystem. This year’s edition of the F&B Innovation Lab will see a new UAE product go to market, which is a Ghaf Tree drink, set to go to market in the run-up to the UAE’s National Day. The drinks were conceptualised by Salma Alzaabi, an F&B Innovation Lab 2.0 incubate, and will be manufactured by UAE-based Barakat.

The latest edition of the F&B Innovation Lab was launched in partnership with Mintel, the programme’s knowledge partner, Tate & Lyle, its technical partner, Federal Youth Authority, the youth partner, and Advoc, Al Ain Farms, Al Islami, Al Barakah Dates, Barakat, Emirates Macaroni Factory, Essa Al-Ghurair, Hunter Foods, Global Food Industries, International Beverage Filing Industries, Nutridor, PureFood, NFI, and Grainvelocity as the manufacturing partners.

For F&B Innovation Lab 2.0, a total of 172 innovators applied to the coveted programme and the 42 selected candidates received over 50 hours of rigorous mentoring and coaching. By the end of the programme, a total of 6 new