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Last chance saloon: NutraIngredients Awards 2020 deadline extended

20-Jan-2020 By Nathan Gray

The submission deadline for the NutraIngredients Awards 2020 has been extended until Friday 7th February due to high demand. There is still time to submit your ingredients, finished products, research and innovations to one of our 12 categories.

NutraIngredients Awards 2020

How to make your award entry stand out: Top tips from the judges

17-Jan-2020 By Nathan Gray

With the deadline for applications to the NutraIngredients Awards fast approaching, our panel of expert judges share some of their top tips and hints of what makes a winning entry.

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NutraIngredients Awards 2020: A video guide to the categories and criteria

16-Jan-2020 By Nathan Gray

With the deadline for applications to the NutraIngredients Awards fast approaching, it's vital that you get your applications in soon. But which award should you apply for, and what are the key criteria for the categories? Our helpful video will...

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NutraIngredients Awards 2020: You've got to be in it to win it!

13-Jan-2020 By Nathan Gray

The NutraIngredients Awards is set to celebrate the best of the nutrition and dietary supplements industry as it returns to Geneva for its sixth year alongside Vitafoods Europe 2020 in May. With just three weeks to go before applications and nominations...

Competition winners announced: Startups get golden tickets to Probiota 2020

10-Jan-2020 By Nikki Hancocks

Three trailblazing microbiome-focused startups will get to showcase their business ideas to hundreds of industry experts at Probiota 2020 next month after winning NutraIngredients' Probiota Pioneers competition.

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Carbiotix to partner with Italian university on neuroinflammation project

23-Dec-2019 By Nathan Gray

Swedish gut analysis and microbiome therapeutics player Carbiotix will partner with the University of Verona on neuroinflammation research using its Microbiome Modular Therapeutics (MMT) platform.

Christmas dinner risk? Could a visit to the in-laws trigger microbiome changes linked to stress and depression?

23-Dec-2019 By Nikki Hancocks and Nathan Gray

Christmas dinner with the in-laws may have a detrimental impact your microbiome health, according to new research that links changes in people to psychological stress.

Two apples a day may lower cholesterol levels, study concludes

17-Dec-2019 By Will Chu

The polyphenols and fibre contained within apples appear to have a mild cholesterol-lowering effect, according to a UK-based research team, which also point to the fruit’s vascular benefits.

DuPont-IFF merger will create €40 billion nutrition and flavour business

16-Dec-2019 By Nathan Gray

A mega-merger between International Flavors & Fragrances Inc (IFF) and DuPont nutrition & biosciences unit will create a new industry giant worth more than $45 billion (€40.4 billion), say those involved in the deal.

Probiota Asia 2019

Centenarians and their microbiota: Metabolites and personalisation ripe for further exploration

11-Dec-2019 By Guan Yu Lim

The crucial role of microbiota metabolites, and the potential for new technology to create personalised solutions based on scientists understanding of them, has been highlighted by a leading academic from Japan.

Pre-term supplementation does not raise developmental risks, review finds

06-Dec-2019 By Will Chu

Nutrient supplementation in small babies does not raise the risk of developmental and metabolic conditions in later life, a review concludes.

Editor's Spotlight: Startup Focus

VIDEO: Gut Health Doctor’s startup puts microbiome science on the breakfast table

02-Dec-2019 By Nikki Hancocks

A dietitian and researcher specialising in gut health has co-founded a granola brand offering an easy way to meet two crucial gut health goals – increased fibre and whole food variety.

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Nutrition science under fire: Diet trials lack of ‘rigour’ slammed by researchers

29-Nov-2019 By Nathan Gray

Clinical trials involving diet are severely under-funded and more difficult to complete than drugs studies, say researchers who warn that nutrition studies are prone to bias, are often too small and of too short duration and regularly change outcome...

Dublin calling: World-class speakers come together for Probiota 2020

26-Nov-2019 By Nathan Gray

A world-class line up of international experts in the microbiome, probiotics and prebiotics will take centre stage in Dublin this February as Probiota 2020 bridges the science and industry divide.

Probiota Frontiers sessions deadline is today!

LAST CHANCE! Calling all probiotic, prebiotic and microbiome focused researchers

22-Nov-2019 By Nathan Gray

Are you a researcher with compelling new data on the microbiome? Do you have exciting probiotic or prebiotic science to share? Would you like to present your findings at the leading microbiome-focused event? If so, today is the last day to submit your...