International Rendezvous on
Health Food and Ingredients
November 2025, 5-6
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
You can now register for the 7th edition of BÉNÉFIQ, the international Rendezvous for health food and ingredients, to be held on November 5 and 6, 2025 at the Port of Québec Cruise Terminal, Canada. Take advantage of early bird rates by registering before May 20, 2025!
Students, registration will open in a few weeks.
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A festive edition
This festive edition, which simultaneously marks the 15th anniversary of BÉNÉFIQ and the 25th anniversary of INAF, will highlight the strength of partnerships and future prospects at the opening and closing panels. Parallel sessions will be organized around three main themes, divided into three complementary sessions:
- Food quality
– Contaminants in food: challenges and strategies to guarantee their safety
– Nutritional quality of foods
– Complementarity and diversification of protein sources - Personalizing nutrition
– Aging well and maintaining health at all ages: perspectives and innovative approaches
– Harnessing the intestinal microbiota to design health-promoting foods and ingredients
– Brain, satiety and Ozempic: a new era of weight management, threat or opportunity? - Consumer trends and behavior
– Food purchasing behaviors: tensions, values and strategies
– Food communication: what solutions to misinformation?
– Food affordability: how to reduce economic inequalities?
The Innovation Show will be back this year, with several new features. There will also be a Next Generation Show, featuring a number of activities throughout the program.
Call for abstracts: April 2025
For this 7th edition of BÉNÉFIQ, the poster session will take on a whole new look. Stay tuned for the abstract submission date!
Become a partner of this edition
The scope of our International Rendezvous on Health Food and Ingredients is far-reaching. It attracts nearly 600 people from around the world, from both the research and food sectors.
We invite you to take a look at the attached document, and to write to us at direction@inaf.ulaval.ca so that we can discuss it together.
Become an exhibitor
This year’s edition will give you greater visibility with a dynamic and lively Innovation Show. Time will be devoted exclusively to our exhibitors in the program, and tasting and sales will be permitted.
To reserve your space, you must register for the Rendez-vous. We invite you to write to us for more information or to be put on our reservation list at: communications@inaf.ulaval.ca.