SR&ED for food & beverage.
Food and beverage companies routinely do SR&ED without realizing it. New formulations, shelf-life work, and scaling a recipe to a production line all involve experimentation the credit is designed to reward.
What qualifies in Agri-food & Food Processing?
Eligibility comes down to one test: did your team work through genuine technical uncertainty? In agri-food & food processing, that usually looks like this.
- Developing new formulations or recipes that hold up at scale
- Extending shelf-life or improving product stability
- Scaling a lab or test-kitchen process to a production line
- Reducing waste or energy use in processing
- Solving food-safety challenges through experimentation
What a claim looks like
A dairy processor reformulated a product to remove an additive while keeping the same texture.
A bakery scaled a small-batch recipe to a continuous line and had to re-solve proofing and moisture.
A beverage maker developed a pasteurization profile that preserved flavour without cutting shelf-life.
How Chrono builds your claim
Chrono reconstructs defensible, evidence-linked timesheets and technical narratives from the records you already keep. No manual time tracking required.
- Batch and production records
- R&D and test-kitchen logs
- QA data
- Recipe and formulation revisions
Agri-food & Food Processing, answered
We're a food plant, not a lab. Do we qualify?
Yes. Process development, formulation work, and scale-up are among the most common SR&ED claims in the sector. You don't need a formal R&D department.
We have no lab software or dev tools. Now what?
That's normal here. Chrono reconstructs your year from your batch records, production logs, and QA data, fully attested, so no dev tools are required.
See what your Agri-food & Food Processing claim is worth.
Estimate your credit in two minutes, then let Chrono build the claim from the data you already have.