Grape extract for cognitive health
07 Jan 2019 | Bionap
Italian-based nutraceutical ingredient supplier Bionap utilizes Mediterranean land to unravel a wide range of unique and very rich plants. Bionap’s researchers develop natural ingredients, striving for better health and wellness conditions of people world wide. Bionap offers Cognigrape, a natural solution to help improve and protect cognitive and brain function. Andrea Bonina discusses the potential for this health ingredient.
At the HAE in Frankfurt.
I'm here with Andrea Bonina from Bayerap.
Andrea, and the big trend towards kind of cognitive and health and cognitive health products, you offer Cogni rape.
What is cognit grape and how does it meet today's trends?
Yes, thank you.
Thank you so much for this time and hello to everyone.
Cogni grape is a specific botanical extract come from grape extract from peel and juice, standard.
Protocanidines and anthocyanidines is very able to counteract the brain aging and to reduce the oxative stress at the brain level.
In this way we can improving the neuronal connection and a clinical study proved that after 12 weeks of treatment with 250 mg of Cognitive rate we can improve the cognitive function such as memory, long term, short term, but we can also improve learning, focus, and the speech.
What type of consumers is this aimed towards and what type of applications are possible?
Because the application that is possible for sure that is prevent the brain aging in a healthy old.
Subject volunteers in a specific healthy older subject and in the meantime also counteract the degeneration of the brain because it's normally that in an older subjects we have some of degeneration and we can counteract and improve the cognitive function in healthy volunteers.
What type of applications can you use it in then?
We, you can use in tablets, in, , liquid beverage, you can use in associate.
The product is, total pesticide-free, come from 100% vertical integration, come from also organic raw material that is a very important plus for us, and, and the product they have is a powder form, water soluble and is a very, very bright and.
Nice violet purple color.
Where do you get your supply from and can you briefly explain the extraction technology behind it?
Yes, destruction technology is the know-how, particular know-how of vine up.
We use a different process.
It depends on the territory and also the regulatory territory by territory to enrich these compounds, this particular fraction, these particular compounds, and we have some.
Technology like filtration or chromatography for a rich these compounds.
What else is in your development pipeline?
What else are you working on in this moment?
We are working for a product for weight management but to cover a different sides.
Now we have a product to counteract the fat accumulation, but we're working on a fiber is a very innovative fiber to counteract the appetite suppressant.
Andrea, thank you very much.
Take.
