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Vitafoods Europe 2025 live: Lonza CHI on trending dosage formats, vegan capsules and pet care

Vitafoods Europe 2025 live: Lonza CHI on trending dosage formats, vegan capsules and pet care

Lonza Capsules & Health Ingredients (CHI) is presenting dosage form solutions, vegan capsules, and joint health ingredients at Vitafoods Europe in Barcelona, Spain (May 20–22). The health and capsules provider is also offering innovation services to help customers develop supplements for various niches, such as mobility and women’s health.On the show floor, Nutrition Insight meets Catherine Lehmann, the company’s director and head of marketing EMEA, to learn about the product concepts, consumer demands, and sustainability initiatives at the Center for Applied Sustainability.
Post-workout power: Key supplements and trends boosting sports nutrition recovery
Post-workout power: Key supplements and trends boosting sports nutrition recovery
With growing demand for personalized, holistic solutions, active gym users are rethinking their workout routines with smarter and cleaner nutrition plans. Speaking to Nutrition Insight, sports nutrition experts from Gencor, Tirlán, and Valio reveal the top post-workout supplements powering recovery — from fast-acting whey protein to curcumin and palmitoylethanolamide (PEA). 
Boosting Asian nutrition must target caste, gender and rural disparities, finds ADBI analysis
Boosting Asian nutrition must target caste, gender and rural disparities, finds ADBI analysis
The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) has analyzed nutrition issues across Asia, suggesting policy interventions that address deeper regional socio-political issues based on specific diets, demographics, population, and culture. With its authors, Nutrition Insight discusses ADBI’s new book, revealing insights to help boost Asian nutrition security and health. Divided into two parts, the book explores the intersections of food security, well-being, and inequality, alongside the role of agricultural policies in shaping nutritional choices and outcomes. 
The Editor Presents: The Ready Meals Edition
The Editor Presents: The Ready Meals Edition
Join The World of Food Ingredients’ deputy editor, Elizabeth Green, for a rundown of the ready meals edition, bringing insights into trends shaping convenience foods and on-the-go nutrition. High-protein positioned foods are evolving to meet the needs of conscious consumers, while dinner times diversify and new opportunities are evident across ready meal development. Other highlights include challenges in vanilla, palm oil and cocoa production, while oats and olive flour ingredients are rising in the bakery market. We also explore gene-editing in animal agriculture and what might be in store for the US pork industry.
Vitafoods Europe 2025 live: Novonesis shines light on HMOs and biotics for stronger gut-brain axis
Vitafoods Europe 2025 live: Novonesis shines light on HMOs and biotics for stronger gut-brain axis
Live on the showroom floor at Vitafoods Europe in Barcelona, Spain, we sit down with Jacob Dalmose Rasmussen, the VP of strategy, portfolio, and marketing at Novonesis, and Karin Oedum, the company’s director of strategic marketing and branding, to discuss its latest microbiome innovations and science-first approach for integrating probiotics, postbiotics, and human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) to target gut, immune, and mental health. Novonesis also spotlighted psychobiotics for stress relief, pediatric probiotics, and gut-brain axis solutions that address the rising consumer demand for holistic, multifunctional health products and gave us some sneak peeks into the company’s future plans for expanding its global nutrition and health impact.
2025 Vitafoods Europe preview: Spotlight on nutraceutical innovations and targeted solutions
2025 Vitafoods Europe preview: Spotlight on nutraceutical innovations and targeted solutions
For the first time in Barcelona, Spain, the nutraceutical industry will showcase its latest innovations in ingredients and finished products at Vitafoods Europe (May 20–22). Companies are gearing up to showcase their solutions in women’s health, beauty-from-within, healthy aging, pet nutrition, cognition, active nutrition, and gut health. Sustainability, scientific research, and innovation continue as key themes in nutrition and supplements, underpinned by the trade show’s New Product and New Ingredients zones.

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Brightseed launches gut barrier-boosting two-in-one bioactive developed with AI
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Brightseed has launched Bio Gut Core, which has been shown to strengthen the gut barrier and reduce bloating and abdominal pain in a new human clinical trial. Nutrition Insight speaks to the biotechnology company to understand how AI was used to find bioactive compounds and the study’s significance. The company reveals that 88% of consumers seek products that restore gut barrier function, according to a representative survey of 2,000 American adults. The National Institutes of Health reports that approximately 60 to 70 million Americans suffer from digestive issues. 
Vitafoods Europe 2025 live: ACG’s custom-formulated capsule tech aids personalized nutrition
ACG booth at Vitafoods 2025
At Vitafoods Europe 2025, Nutrition Insight caught up with Rohit Myri, ACG’s sales manager for the UK and Scandinavia, to discuss the company’s new personalized capsule technology. At the show, ACG introduced its world-first Personalized Capsule Machine (PCM) — a patented technology that creates custom-formulated supplement capsules tailored to individual needs on demand.
Nestlé Switzerland ditches Nutri-Score and opts for QR codes on select brands
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Nestlé has decided to gradually remove the Nutri-Score from its brands Cailler, Thomy, Leisi, Incarom, Chokito, Henniez, Nestea, and Romanette, which are sold exclusively in Switzerland. All other Nestlé brands sold in Switzerland will continue to carry the Nutri-Score. The FMCG giant says the low adoption of the Nutri-Score in Switzerland due to declining political support in the country signals that the Nutri-Score can no longer fulfill its function of enabling comparability between similar products.
Vitafoods Europe 2025 live: Nektium showcases botanical stress relief and cognition boosters
Nektium at Vitafoods 2025
Nektium is demonstrating how its new Vanizem ingredient meets the growing consumer demand for natural stress relief and sleep support at the ongoing Vitafoods Europe 2025 trade fair in Barcelona, Spain (May 20–22). The nutraceutical provider is also showcasing its brain-boosting Zynamite in a new flavor. Named a finalist in the Vitafoods 2025 awards, Vanizem is a fast-acting botanical that promotes a feeling of calm without causing drowsiness by influencing modulating receptors and enzymes within the endocannabinoid system.
Silent emergency: Aid collapse in Somalia puts children’s lives on the line
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Somali children are facing a ticking clock of illness and death, Save the Children warns. The drop in foreign aid is reportedly forcing 121 nutrition centers to shut down by June. Nutrition Insight speaks to the NGO about how this crisis reflects on the global aid system, while addressing questions of responsibility and what reforms are required to prevent poverty and hunger from echoing across generations. 
Social media “super-spreaders” push harmful diet fads to millions, new report warns
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Up to 24 million people could face serious health consequences from following extreme diet advice on social media, according to new research exposing a wave of influential accounts peddling misinformation for profit.A joint analysis by the Rooted Research Collective (RRC) and the Freedom Food Alliance (FFA) has identified 53 high-profile “super-spreaders” on Instagram who routinely share what they deem harmful nutrition guidance. Most have no health-related qualifications, yet their posts directly contradict global public health advice. 
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Key to skin’s beauty by boosting collagen

The demand for clean, natural ingredients in nutraceuticals is on the rise. Discover DracoBelle™ Nu, a science-backed and clinically proven collagen booster derived from Moldavian dragonhead. It rejuvenates the skin by improving skin hydration and dermis thickness. Download our technical paper to learn more.This Technical Paper is brought to you by Mibelle Group Biochemistry.

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Closing the fiber gap: Industry ramps up fortification with new prebiotic solutions

The WHO recommends a dietary fiber intake of at least 25 grams daily, but research indicates many people don’t reach that goal. We examine this dietary fiber gap in the global population and opportunities for fortified foods to improve public health with Tate & Lyle, COMET, Alland & Robert, and Sensus. Abigail Storms, SVP of Fiber and Sweetener Platform at Tate & Lyle, tells Nutrition Insight: “Our modeling studies show that it is possible to meaningfully increase intakes, getting more people closer to that recommended intake, with minimal behavior change required.” 

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Women’s health trendsMay2025

Innova Market Insights data shows a 12% growth in women’s health supplement and sports nutrition launches from 2020 to 2024. This growth is driven by increasing consumer interest, with 36% of global f...

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Post-workout recovery May 2025

Innova Market Insights data shows that 34% of consumers globally use sports and functional nutrition after workouts, presenting a key opportunity for innovation in post-workout products. As demand for recovery aids grows, there’s significant potential to develop functional ingredients supporting muscle repair and overall well-being, helping athletes optimize performance and recovery in one solution.

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Prebiotic proliferationMay 2025

Innova Market Insights data indicates a 10% compound annual growth in supplement launches featuring prebiotics from 2020 to 2024. Top health claims included digestive/liver health, immune health, and energy and stamina. GLP-1-friendly claims are on the rise, showing a remarkable 78% CAGR. Inulin emerged as the leading prebiotic ingredient used in these launches.

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