Professionally and personally Beaulieu believes in BALANCE. Dr. John C. Beaulieu is a formally trained Horticulturist and Plant Biologist, specializing in postharvest, maturity-dependent and flavor chemistry volatiles investigations. He retired early from the Agricultural Research Service, USDA, in New Orleans LA after 25 years of R&D.Over the last decade, through re-allocations and re-tooling, he performed more like a food scientist utilizing horticulture, plant physiology and volatile-aroma experience to move into functional beverages and the value-added foods arena, including ideation for novel not-from-concentrate fruit beverages then novel sprouted brown rice beverage formulation. Nonetheless, his true love and passion still resides in horticulture, fresh-cut and postharvest plant physiology/biology. Taking the environment, ecosystems and sustainability in mind, plant-based diets and products with corporate R&D in this area are also paramount. Recent interests include vertical farming and controlled environment agriculture and alternatives to protein delivery for humanity through plant-based applications. Dr. Beaulieu recently and humbly discovered he is on Stanford University’s “World’s Top 2% Scientists” list [August 2020-2023. (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6)].