Bringing Health to Everyday Life

Danisco has an extensive knowledge of the digestive system and its content of probiotic bacteria that reduces the symptoms associated with certain health conditions and contributes to some natural functions.

23/10/07 Never before have there been so many opportunities to enhance digestive health with the aid of convenient food products. The newest wave of application concepts from Danisco reconfirms the value of probiotic and prebiotic ingredients in strengthening what industrialised nations today broadly recognise as the only real defence against lifestyle-related health conditions - the diet.

With widespread consumer awareness a key driver of the growing health and wellness food sector, food manufacturers are being increasingly called upon to take their share of the responsibility for consumer health.

Although digestive health is one of many health-related issues influenced by the diet, the impact of our gastrointestinal tract on everyday wellbeing is not to be underestimated. Some eight metres long and with a surface area equivalent to the size of a football field, it is responsible for the digestion and absorption of nutrients and contributes to the excretion of waste products. It is also the body’s largest immune organ, accounting for 80% of the body’s production of antibodies.

Maintaining the balance

Danisco has an extensive knowledge of the digestive system and its content of probiotic bacteria that reduces the symptoms associated with certain health conditions and contributes to some natural functions. The company’s premium probiotic culture range - HOWARU - brings a documented response to the need to maintain and restore the gut balance, which may be disrupted by stress, antibiotics, inadequate nutrition, travel, surgery, disease or ageing. Complementing HOWARU Premium Probiotics, Danisco also produces the dietary fibres FIBREX and Litesse polydextrose, the latter a documented prebiotic proven to provide probiotic bacteria with vital nourishment.

This expertise and these ingredients have resulted in the development of new concepts that will form part of Danisco’s health and nutrition showcase at this year’s Food Ingredients Europe exhibition in London. Delicious and nutritious, the concepts are designed to demonstrate just how easy it is to put health into a convenient and tasty format just right for a busy lifestyle.

A low-fat, reduced-sugar fruit yoghurt breakfast snack shows how HOWARU Protect, a new patented formulation of probiotic cultures to reduce cold-associated symptoms, can be combined with pectin, sweeteners and flavours in the fruit-prep to secure the mild, creamy texture and well-rounded flavour to a healthy daily dose product. FIBREX features in the yoghurt’s cereal topping. Another possibility is a refreshing fruit smoothie enriched with HOWARU Bifido, known to abound in the intestines where they support the immune system. More inspiration in the form of a mango lassi and fortified snack bar, both containing Litesse Ultra, reinforces the diversity of the opportunities to benefit health through the diet.

Experience the potential

Ingredient technology for the health and nutrition food sector has reached an exciting stage. As a leading ingredients supplier, Danisco is an ongoing contributor to this process. Food Ingredients Europe in London from 30 October to 1 November promises to be the place for catching up with the healthy possibilities the latest food ingredient technology has to offer.