Accelerating the
protein transition
with taste.

NECTAR empowers stakeholders across the value chain with a robust evidence-base of sensory data.

Read our Taste
of the Industry
Report 2026

The world’s largest public sensory
analysis of dairy-free products

Bite Into the Data

Why NECTAR?

Taste is a primary purchase driver for most consumers. Taste is therefore necessary for plant-based foods to achieve mainstream adoption.

By conducting large-scale sensory panels of plant-based foods and operationalizing the resulting data in a diversity of pre-competitive ways, NECTAR hopes to accelerate the mainstream adoption of plant-based foods.

Why Now?

Reducing global meat consumption is essential to ensuring planetary and public health. Despite challenging cultural & media narratives currently surrounding plant-based meats, our research tells a more optimistic story about the category’s taste potential.

NECTAR leverages data to:

Inspire product innovators to continue reaching new heights

Identify clear calls to action for stakeholders across the sustainable protein value chain
Educate eaters about delicious products in distribution

With no time to waste, NECTAR aims to accelerate the protein
transition with taste.

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Learn more about NECTAR.

Learn more about NECTAR’s vision & mission, and the pioneers bringing both to life.
Our Mission & Vision
Our Team
Explore our seminal sensory research and dive deep into category-level insights. Read here.
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