Cornell University Opens Food Innovation Lab

The Food Innovation Lab officially opened on July 25 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Cornell leadership and public officials.

A new research and test kitchen for food entrepreneurs has opened at Cornell AgriTech, further enriching a robust ecosystem designed to help grow New York’s food and agriculture industries. The Food Innovation Lab (FIL) is a collaboration between the New York State Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture (CoE) and the Cornell Food Venture Center (CFVC).

The test kitchen is a natural accompaniment to the CFVC Pilot Plant, a state-of-the-art 10,000-square-foot processing facility focused on product development and scaling up new food products.