R&D Internship -Fat Crystallization & Nut Fillings

R&D Internship
-Fat Crystallization & Nut Fillings

Date: 27 Aug 2026

Country:
Netherlands

Location:

Amsterdam, NL

Function:
Innovation, Quality & Food Safety

About Us

As a leading provider of high-quality food and beverage ingredients, we work with farming communities across the globe to grow, source and produce ingredients that are good for consumers, farmers, and the world around us. We supply household food brands and manufacturers worldwide with cocoa, coffee, dairy, nuts and spices ingredients which are often grown on our own farms and estates and sourced from hundreds of thousands of farmers across ~50 countries.

Along with our diverse manufacturing and innovation capabilities, this means we can provide ingredients for a range of products, from a plant-based latte mix to an almond based snack bar or a dairy-free ice cream. Making a positive impact on people and planet is a core component of our Purpose, to be the change for good food and a healthy future.

With a deep-rooted presence in the countries where our ingredients are grown, we are closer to farmers, enabling better quality, and more reliable, traceable, and transparent supply. And whoever we’re with, whatever we’re doing, we always make it real.

Product Information

Food & Beverage Solutions

We have launched a new platform called Food and Beverage solutions, part of our ingredients and solutions reporting unit. This platform consolidates our current category solutions capabilities and innovation infrastructure. We support customers in developing new consumer concepts and application solutions at our four customer solution centers in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Chicago, and Singapore. Food and Beverage solutions leverages the strengths of our five product platforms, including their global and sustainable supply chain capabilities, a complementary portfolio of high-quality food and ingredients, and extensive ingredient expertise.

This enables us to address a diverse range of customer requirements in the rapidly evolving Food and Beverage industry. Built on deep consumer, category, and application understanding, we are enhancing our application and R&D capabilities to provide an end-to-end integrated customer experience. This opens up more on-trend and inspired product ideation opportunities. Together, we can co-create product innovations that delight consumers and make your ambitions a reality.

We are offering an in‑depth R&D Internship focused on understanding the effect of fat system crystallization on the functionality and stability of nut fillings. In this role, you will study how different fat systems behave during processing and storage, and how this impacts product performance in specific applications.

The objective of this internship is to evaluate fat crystallization behaviour, compatibility, and long‑term stability under various storage conditions. You will work closely with R&D, Application, and Sensory teams to generate practical insights for formulation and product development.

During your internship, you will be involved in the full experimental and analytical workflow, including:

• Preparing nut fillings at lab scale using different fat systems and measuring key parameters after production.
• Evaluating the effect of crystallizers in selected formulations and comparing results with reference samples under identical conditions.
• Supporting application testing and performance evaluation in collaboration with the Application team.
• Designing and validating shelf‑life protocols, including ambient, accelerated, and cold storage conditions, with day/night temperature cycling where relevant.
• Preparing, storing, and systematically tracking samples across all test conditions.
• Sensory analysis (with guidance from a…