The market has been flooded with products claiming to help support the immune system ever since the pandemic hit this region in early 2020. But how many of these have been based on credible scientific evidence? In this edition, we’ll discuss some of the...
The NutraIngredients Awards are back for the 7th year running and this time, with five new categories ! The awards honour the best and brightest in ingredients, finished products, companies, people and initiatives in the nutrition and dietary supplements...
Interest in exercise and nutrition is growing as consumers look to support immune function. This session will debate the latest developments in this field and how nutrition can support the immune system while helping consumers and athletes stay active.
Health and beauty have long worked hand-in-hand, but as COVID-19 continues to create seismic shifts in consumer needs and expectations, the demand for personal care items – topical and ingestible – that de-stress, soothe and protect as part of wider holistic...
Due to the ongoing travel restrictions and social distancing due to COVID. The 2021 IPA World Congress + Probiota Americas will no longer take place as a physical event in Washington and will be replaced with an online digital summit on June 15th,...
Will Quorum sensing lead to a new understanding of how to manipulate the microbiome? This session will also explore how the industry can leverage advances in A.I., CRISPR, microbiome analysis to boost personalization and consumer choice?
Probiotics are the most established category for microbiome enhancement for health, but other categories are growing, including prebiotics, synbiotics and postbiotics. This session will discuss the current understand of these ingredients and the official...
From the gut-brain axis to women’s health and the skin microbiome, this session will feature presentations from leading brands, academics, and thought leaders on the exciting emerging health benefits to drive innovation with prebiotics and probiotics.
The challenges and opportunities with e-commerce, the overall changing retail landscape for dietary supplements in the United States, Amazon standards specifications; the educated consumers.
Immune health has never been more front of mind for consumers than today, and with the gut being the body’s largest immune organ it is no wonder that the microbiome is central to any discussion around how to support immune function. This session will...
The NutraIngredients-USA Awards are back for the fourth year running and this time, with two new categories ! The awards honor the best and brightest in ingredients, finished products, companies, people and initiatives in the nutrition and dietary supplements...
The NutraIngredients-Asia Awards are back for the fourth year running and this time, with two new categories giving you even more opportunities to showcase your company’s capabilities ! The awards reward true innovation and cutting edge research in functional...
In highly competitive industries, differentiation is key. The alimentary and nutraceutical sector has faced multiple challenges within the last few years, particularly, in terms of the regulation around the marketing of functional foods and their associated...
Clinical trials are an insurance policy for claims purposes. Designing good randomized clinical trials that can prove efficacy for dietary supplements is challenging. For clinicians to be convinced of the value of Dietary Supplements, they need the proof...
Building reliable scientific evidence that links nutrition and health outcomes is at the centre of our industry – and clinical trial data plays a pivotal role in establishing causality and determining relationships between supplementation and specific...
In their presentation, Steen and Ratna reveal key findings from studies that investigate the impact and benefits of HMOs, with a focus on 2’-fucosyllactose (2’-FL), the most abundant HMO found in human milk; they will also discuss the commercial potential...
This panel discussion will bring together experts in public health nutrition to discuss the strategies that best support families and early-life nutrition, garnering new insights that can help businesses achieve success in the maternal and infant market.
Nutrition during perinatal life can influence development, and may result in long-lasting adaptations of immune, metabolic and brain functions in later life, a phenomenon known as nutritional programming. The presentation will illustrate this concept...
Today, it is recognized that the first 1 000 days of early life are decisive for the development of children and their future health and, it appears, that protein intake plays and important role. Protein, nitrogen and amino acid requirements change rapidly...
This session will look at how new scientific discoveries and emerging areas of research are impacting the innovation and NPD process. From the growing commercial and academic interest in the microbiome, to the growing focus on human milk oligosaccharides...
Alongside experts from major manufacturers, and top scientists the NutraIngredients team will explore how the market is evolving and changing the game, what opportunities are being provided by scientific breakthroughs, and how new ingredients and business...
The market for active and sports nutrition products is growing at a rapid rate and leading to a more diverse consumer base for the category.
Today there is no typical sports nutrition consumer. Older consumers and groups such as weekend-warriors...
While other vitamins and nutrients have hit the headlines for their positive effect on health in recent years, it seems that the importance of vitamin K2 as a modulator or controller of many other processes has been too often overlooked.
The sports nutrition market is growing rapidly as consumers look to ‘get healthy on the go’, and maximise the benefits of their active lifestyles. Indeed, according to Mintel data, one in four people in the UK have consumed a sports nutrition product,...
Today sports nutrition is going mainstream – with personalised nutrition for an active lifestyle. The trend is now driving tailored products – and green, vegan, natural and non-GMO claims, linked to the ever-popular protein. Plant protein is full of promise...
The sports nutrition category remains one of the fastest growing areas of the whole nutrition industry. But the market is also rife negative publicity because of certain products on the market which do not comply with food labelling and/ or safety rules,...
