Nature of Business and Liquidity	9 Months Ended
Oct. 01, 2016
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Nature of Business and Liquidity	Nature of business: The Company leverages its complementary business units to discover, acquire, develop and commercialize patented and proprietary ingredient technologies that address the dietary supplement, food, beverage, skin care and pharmaceutical markets. In addition to our ingredient technologies unit, we also have business units focused on natural product fine chemicals (known as "phytochemicals"), chemistry and analytical testing services, and product regulatory and safety consulting (known as Spherix Consulting). As a result of our relationships with leading universities and research institutions, we are able to discover and license early stage, Intellectual Property-backed ingredient technologies. We then utilize our in-house chemistry, regulatory and safety consulting business units to develop commercially viable ingredients. Our ingredient portfolio is backed with clinical and scientific research, as well as extensive Intellectual Property protection. Liquidity: The Company has incurred loss from operations of approximately $122,000 and net loss of approximately $781,000 for the nine-month period ended October 1, 2016. As of October 1, 2016, the cash and cash equivalents totaled approximately $2,265,000. Subsequent to the period ended October 1, 2016, the Company entered into a business financing agreement with Western Alliance Bank, in order to establish a formula based revolving credit line up to $5.0 million. While we anticipate that our current cash, cash equivalents, cash to be generated from operations and the established $5.0 million revolving credit line will be sufficient to meet our projected operating plans through at least November 11, 2017, we may require additional funds, either through additional equity or debt financings or collaborative agreements or from other sources. We have no commitments to obtain such additional financing, and we may not be able to obtain any such additional financing on terms favorable to us, or at all. If adequate financing is not available, the Company will further delay, postpone or terminate product and service expansion and curtail certain selling, general and administrative operations. The inability to raise additional financing may have a material adverse effect on the future performance of the Company.

Nature of Business and Liquidity

9 Months Ended

Oct. 01, 2016

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Nature of business: The Company leverages its complementary business units to discover, acquire, develop and commercialize patented and proprietary ingredient technologies that address the dietary supplement, food, beverage, skin care and pharmaceutical markets. In addition to our ingredient technologies unit, we also have business units focused on natural product fine chemicals (known as "phytochemicals"), chemistry and analytical testing services, and product regulatory and safety consulting (known as Spherix Consulting). As a result of our relationships with leading universities and research institutions, we are able to discover and license early stage, Intellectual Property-backed ingredient technologies. We then utilize our in-house chemistry, regulatory and safety consulting business units to develop commercially viable ingredients. Our ingredient portfolio is backed with clinical and scientific research, as well as extensive Intellectual Property protection.

Liquidity: The Company has incurred loss from operations of approximately $122,000 and net loss of approximately $781,000 for the nine-month period ended October 1, 2016. As of October 1, 2016, the cash and cash equivalents totaled approximately $2,265,000.

Subsequent to the period ended October 1, 2016, the Company entered into a business financing agreement with Western Alliance Bank, in order to establish a formula based revolving credit line up to $5.0 million. While we anticipate that our current cash, cash equivalents, cash to be generated from operations and the established $5.0 million revolving credit line will be sufficient to meet our projected operating plans through at least November 11, 2017, we may require additional funds, either through additional equity or debt financings or collaborative agreements or from other sources. We have no commitments to obtain such additional financing, and we may not be able to obtain any such additional financing on terms favorable to us, or at all. If adequate financing is not available, the Company will further delay, postpone or terminate product and service expansion and curtail certain selling, general and administrative operations. The inability to raise additional financing may have a material adverse effect on the future performance of the Company.