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Impacting Taste: Regenerative Brands, Put To A Taste Test

Thu, October 22, 2026 (5:30 PM - 7:30 PM)

All Souls Church Unitarian
1500 Harvard Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20009
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Cost: From $35.88

Taste regenerative food and drink against conventional, blind, then meet the people who can help these brands grow.

This year Anderson-Berens Consulting scored 94 regenerative food and beverage brands on how they treat farmers, land and climate. The top 75 are revealed at a free online workshop on Thursday 15 October. A week later, we put them to a simpler test: taste.

Stations are laid out like the aisles of a grocery store: produce, protein, pantry and drinks. At each one, you'll taste a regenerative product and its conventional counterpart without knowing which is which, and score both. At the end, we share how the room voted, including anywhere conventional won.

Between tastings, a short programme:

  • Mary Purdy, MS, RDN, Advisor to the Culinary Institute of America's Menus of Change, in a recorded segment on what the evidence does and doesn't yet show about regenerative farming and nutrient density
  • Dylan Anderson-Berens, Anderson-Berens Consulting, on how the 94 brands were scored and what it takes to get them onto more shelves and menus
  • A short lesson in how sensory and consumer researchers run a taste test, and what a brand can take from one
  • More speakers to be announced

Then eat and drink what you've been tasting: a small bowl with a vegan option, plus wine and non-alcoholic drinks, from brands on the list wherever we can source them.

Who it's for: people whose decisions move these brands: chefs, sourcing managers, retail and foodservice buyers, dietitians, food writers and impact investors. Chefs and sourcing managers can email dylan@andersonberensconsulting.com for a complimentary ticket.

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