Marrying omega 3 with probiotics
28 Jan 2020 | Sirio Pharma
Dr. Dominique Baum, Managing Director of Ayanda, a European based member of Sirio Group, highlighted the innovation corner at the Sirio stand at CPhI Wordwide 2019. This includes a probiotic and omega 3 soft gel that contains bifidobacterium animalis subsp Lactis, EPA, DHA and vitamin D. In its R&D efforts, the company developed a method to make soft gel capsules at very low temperatures, in an effort not to kill the probiotic bacteria. The resulting capsule marries the advantages of probiotics and omega 3, which can provide health benefits to mothers, children and elderly people.
This is Lakshmi Hague reporting from CPHI Worldwide in Frankfurt.
I'm here in the Serio Farmer booth with managing director Dominique Baumer.
The Theo are highlighting the innovation corner here at the show, and Miss Baum will detail these up a little bit more for us.
Yes, our innovation corner here at our booth of cereal meets a lot of interest from customers.
We are highlighting here our capabilities in doing special dosage forms, with probiotics.
One of our highlights is a probiotic soft shell combined with omega 3 for which we have, received a patent, a European patent, beginning of the year.
It actually marries the advantages of omega 3 and bifidobacteria, which allows to provide health benefits to mothers with a child, to elderly people and to young people, protecting heart, helping brain development, and having also the beneficial effects of the probiotics.
Another part which is also for us really interesting is.
Our capability to manufacture gummies, we are highlighting here a probiotic gummy which is very, very difficult to make which delivers probiotics in a delightful way.
We know that many customers really like the taste of the gummy, and we have here really tasting gummies, and the feedback which we received from our visitors was really, really very encouraging.
The third thing, we also try to think about problems which our customers may have or end customers, for instance, children.
Children very often suffer from constipation, and we actually attacked this problem by developing a chewable tablet having high content of probacteria, probiotics, but with a really good taste, and , we even went further to reach.
Show that this works with children, that it improves their digestion, that it relieves pain.
Syria was also running clinical trials in small children aged 4 to 12 years old.
So we're going beyond actually to just be a CMO, just waiting for customers to ask us what to do.
We know the trends.
We're delivering products actually answering to.
The demand in the market, which helps us also to consult and give ideas to our customers.
That's pretty interesting.
Thank you.
I can see in the probiotic space how really tapping into a lot of market demands.
I was wondering, you mentioned that it's difficult to marry omega and probiotics, for example, how did you overcome that in the R&D space?
How did you get there?
So this is a development of 10 years to be able to do that.
And the point is if you're encapsulating, you need normally high temperature which may kill the bacteria, so we developed a method to make soft gel capsules with oil at very, very low temperature to increase the survival rate of the bacteria.
And then we also developed a solution for storage that enables a high CFU, so a high.
Survival rate of bacteria up to 24 months.
Brilliant.
Thank you.
And another market demand we're seeing that I know you're responding to as is the vegetarian demand.
So what offerings do you have in this space?
We actually was one of the first companies that was able to do vegetarian soft gels.
It's one of the most advanced companies offering vegetarian-made soft gels from tapioca and carroinan sauce, but At the same time also we offer vegetarian gummies made out of pectin, so we have a really wide range of looking at increasing our offerings of vegetarian products which demand is increasing from the market.
Of course, and I have one last question for you.
If you look back over 2019, what do you think were the biggest trends in the supplement?
The biggest trend was.
More sustainable products, the biggest trend is trying to achieve less with more, which is, for instance, the probiotic soft gels by combining both, and a big trend is really taste.
Delight of the customer, to which also the cereal Group is answering by offering different formulations which have a very delicious taste.
Enjoyable dosage for you.
Thank you very, very much.
Thank you.
