The 4^th FOP Conference was held in Lausanne, Switzerland from July 3-6, 2016 at the SwissTech Convention Centre. The theme of the conference was “Food Oral Processing through life: interplay between food structure, sensory, pleasure and nutritional needs.” This meeting was the fourth in a series of conferences aimed at the principles and mechanisms underpinning eating and sensory appreciation in order to seek fundamental understanding of food - body interactions and developing tasty, healthy foods. The conference was attended by 198 delegates from 28 countries. The next FOP conference will be held in July 2018 to be hosted by the University of Nottingham.