Just Food: How AI Is Shaping New Food Product Development
Sam Stark shares how AI can help food companies accelerate product development while improving sustainability and emissions insights.
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JustFood published an article on May 26th, 2026 entitled "The use of AI in food NPD is changing." In it, JustFood writer Laura Syrett consulted with various experts on different ways that food manufacturers are using AI in their New Food Development (NPD) processes in order to achieve a competitive advantage.
Green Project CEO and Founder Sam Stark was among the experts consulted:
Stark... says the technology is helping connect decisions that were historically made separately, such as procurement, product quality and marketing and emissions reductions.
“AI is becoming the common layer” helping staff work from the same data simultaneously... “When you can model the carbon implications of a formulation change or a supplier switch before you commit to it, sustainability stops being a constraint on product decisions and starts being an input to them."
About the author
Sam Stark
CEO & Founder
Sam Stark is the CEO and Founder of Green Project Technologies, an AI climate management platform helping businesses of all sizes measure, manage, and reduce emissions across complex global value chains.