PepsiCo is open to a range of collaboration types, but the technology should be available for scale-up within the next 3 year.

• Taste advantaged salts (less salty than NaCl), other mineral ingredients, or blends that can mask/balance saltiness
• Encapsulation/plating technologies to reduce the perception of saltiness
• Ion exchange/ion binding to remove salty tasting anions
• Salt receptor blockers

• Clear appearance (not cloudy or containing sediment)
• Colorless
• No impact on flavor other than the requested reduction in salt perception (undetectable when tasted dissolved in water)
• Unacidified, unsweetened (no declaration of acidulants, sweeteners)

• GRAS (Generally-Regarded-As-Safe) approval

• We have already evaluated product interventions including flavor-based masking agents, cooling agents.