The NutraIngredients Awards is set to celebrate the best of the nutrition and dietary supplements industry as it returns to Geneva for its fifth year alongside Vitafoods Europe 2019 next May. Which of our 12 categories will you be applying for?
Start-up Onegevity officially launched this week, promising consumers one of the most ‘hyperpersonalized’ services amid the boom of at-home testing, personalized nutrition kits.
The shift from a ‘diagnose and treat’ mind-set to a ‘predict and prevent’ approach is making rapid gains in the food and nutrition industry as consumers look to innovation to make better dietary and nutritional decisions.
Men and women may taste and see food differently – but efforts to tailor food and drink products to men and women risk appearing “outdated”, one researcher argues.
Diet-related advice based on an individual’s personal gut microbiome is only a matter of time with the ‘one-size-fits-all’ concept increasingly becoming outdated.
There’s a lot of misuse of science when it comes to marketing personalized nutrition for athletic performance, according to one leading researcher in the field.
“Self care” is the big theme in health and wellness for 2019, according to the global idea-sharing app Pinterest, with eating trends that show scientific research is capturing the interest of the masses.
The UK’s Chief Medical Officer believes technologies that combine nutritional guidelines, genetic information and behavioural science can ‘nudge’ individuals to achieve personal behaviour changes.
As we boldly begin our march into 2019, it’s time for the NutraIngredients editors to get out our crystal balls and predict the hottest trends in the European health and wellness space for the year ahead. What’s in store for 2019?
Ethnicity has a consistent effect on the microbiome according to new research which fuels the debate about whether diet or genes have the most effect on the microbiome.
A European trademark to identify sports nutrition products belonging to members of the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (ESSNA) has been approved by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).
The popularity of sports and personalised nutrition at this year’s HiE has threatened to overshadow more established product sectors, which innovation-wise, has not quite captured consumer imagination.
A new ecommerce based subscription supplement brand launches today with a unique feature: a smart cap technology that will drive compliance and will help manage reordering.
PeptAIde, the world's first bioactive ingredient discovered and delivered through artificial intelligence (AI) is the culmination of a partnership between BASF and Nuritas formed back in January 2017.
US nutrition data firm Medtronic is to acquire Nutrino Health in a deal that combines both firms’ expertise in nutritional intervention to address the threat of metabolic conditions such as diabetes.
The banking and airline industry are examples of industries that have the right balance of regulation, innovation and technology that personalisation nutrition can take lessons from.
The number of health-related microbiome projects has almost doubled in the last three years, with EU funding almost twice that of non-health related gut research.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the microbiota have been identified as opportunities for the private sector to offer affordable nutrition to lower-income consumers, who are at a higher risk of malnutrition.
The importance of digital technology and machine learning as a means to provide precise, tailored nutrition took centre-stage at Probiota Asia 2018, as Danone revealed some of the pioneering research it is undertaking in Singapore.
Nuritas, a Dublin-based start-up making waves in the personalised nutrition sector, has appointed some world leading experts to its new scientific advisory board (SAB).
Despite the progress made in personalised nutrition (PN) and the development of services offered to the consumer, the sector is still considered in its infancy with a number of issues, primarily privacy and regulatory, which need to be clarified in order...
Data from 1,033 generally healthy individuals using InsideTracker shows that the automated, web-based personalized nutrition platform is capable of normalizing serum biomarker levels in healthy subjects.
Singapore-based e-commerce portal Fitlion has become the official nutrition partner of English Premier League club Burnley FC, in a deal that will focus heavily on a personalised approach for each player.
There are just two weeks to go until the region’s leading probiotic and microbiome event, Probiota Asia, gets underway in Singapore, with a stellar line-up of speakers from the likes of Blackmores, Danone, Herbalife and Life-Space set to take to the stage.
Injured athletes can slash their recovery time through diet alone, a top performance nutritionist revealed during NutraIngredients’ Sports Nutrition Congress.
A mathematician and an engineer bootstrapped a nutrition-tech company about seven years ago. Their goal was to create a platform that documents the diverse ways human bodies extract nutrition from food.
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While the sports nutrition market appears to be booming, it is important to keep reality in check. In our first ever sports nutrition survey we ask how market forces, regulations, and innovation are impacting the market. There's just three days left...
How I did it—or ‘Hiddit’—is the Belgian startup that counts double Ironman world champion Luc Van Lierde on board a venture that has a triathlete’s nutritional needs in mind, both in formulation and ease of use.
Hitachi is to launch an initiative that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to examine the nutritional make-up of hospital food left uneaten by patients.
‘Prescribed exercise’ is a distinct possibility in the future as consumers look to improve gut and overall health as part of the gradual shift towards a holistic personalised nutrition approach.
Japan's consumer genetic testing industry is booming, buoying hopes that personalised nutrition firms can tap into demands for tailored products, especially among the elderly.
A new market research report explores how the personalized nutrition space can elevate itself beyond “just recommending diets” and become an integral part of preventive health care.
NutraIngredients is on the hunt for entrepreneurial start-ups to join our session on innovation and pitch their company and ideas to a room full of top experts at this year's Sports Nutrition Congress in Brussels this September. Do you have what...
A personalized nutrition startup called Ixcela is taking a unique tack toward microbiome health by measuring metabolites in the blood that are associated with healthy gut functioning.
UK personalised nutrition firms Kafoodle, OME Health and Best in Bag are named as shortlisted finalists in John Lewis’ retail tech innovation programme, which this year followed a health and wellbeing theme.
China's omega-3 market appears to be at a tipping point, with slowly rising consumer awareness being buoyed by both the ingredient's sports nutrition potential and growing opportunities for personalised nutrition.
Scientific investment and consumer engagement is key to staying ahead in nutrigenomics and it's a space becoming primed for mainstream, says the CEO of Prenetics International – owner of DNAFit.
BASF's human nutrition brand Newtrition has gained exclusive distribution rights to market Aussie consumer healthcare firm Xerion's omega-3 test kits, thanks to a new three-year agreement between the two companies.
Nutrigenomics is gaining plenty of attention but it remains extremely complex and unadapted to direct-to-consumer models, says the MD of Nordic Group – owner of DNA Life and more recently AthGene.
NutraIngredients-Asia is delighted to announce that the second Asia edition of the global probiotics and prebiotics summit, Probiota, will be held in Singapore in October.
Agricultural commodities giant Archer Daniels Midland Co. has expanded its reach into the microbiome space with the acquisition of UK-based manufacturer Probiotics International Ltd. in a cash deal worth $243.5 million (£185 million).
The promise of personalised nutrition has been cooled somewhat by the issues surrounding the use of sensitive personal health data, given by the consumer in order to utilise personalised nutrition services.
DSM has underlined personalised nutrition as a major focus under its new strategy, and stated it would continue to seek acquisitions to strengthen its nutrition offerings.
The best way to answer questions about complex ecosystems is to collect as much data as possible—and that’s what uBiome wants to do to improve the understanding of the human microbiome.
