Discover new food sources

I need a readable brief on discovering new food sources for the R&D meeting tomorrow. Make the draft agreeable to read: cut jargon, surface the two best candidate ingredients in the first paragraph, and provide one-line rationales linking each candidate to cost, supply risk, and flavor profile.

Before I share this with the beverage technologist and the author, make it easy to approve: put the supply-risk number and estimated cost per kilo up top, make flavor descriptors findable, and flag any sourcing assumptions that would make procurement hesitate.

I just told Priya in R&D that we can source a seaweed concentrate at scale; she replied that her pilot samples didn’t match flavor claims. I’m worried procurement will commit and fail the pilot. I cannot tell Priya how fast suppliers can scale. Is the likely problem my sourcing optimism or a flawed pilot, and what is the best next move to avoid a costly procurement commitment?

We consistently lose time because new food-source proposals are rejected late by procurement for vague risk reasons. Where are we failing to make sourcing cases persuasive, and what single habit—data to gather or one paragraph to add—would get proposals accepted earlier?