NPEW 2025: Euromed unveils persimmon extract for weight management
25 Mar 2025 | Euromed
At the recent Natural Products Expo West (NPEW) trade show, Andrea Zangara, Euromed’s head of scientific communication and medical affairs, detailed new scientific support for its standardized botanical extracts and active ingredients. He also highlighted Euromed’s latest innovation inspired by the Mediterranean diet, perFix, a persimmon extract with proven efficacy in weight management and body composition.
This is Yolande van Gaal from Nutrition Insight.
I'm here at Natural Products Expo West with Andreas Zangara, who is the head of scientific communication and medical affairs at Eurome.
Thank you for joining us today.
I'm really curious, what is your focus at this year's Expo West?
West is always exciting.
We are here to reconnect with our long-term customers face to face, which is very important with our key opinion leaders.
And, it's very important also because last year, exactly here, we, we were, awarded the Tyler Bra Award by the American Botanical Council for, phytochemical excellence and investment in research.
So this year, we want to really emphasize the passion we have and the commitment, to research driven gold standard clinical studies, pre-clinical studies, and also experiment.
Implementing with different technologies.
So additionally, we, this year, since last year, we published 5 clinical studies.
We have several others ongoing in the clinical, preclinical, and, we really, have, now a, commitment to the Tyler Barre work, which really impuls our company to.
Continue to give, more, more enthusiasm in research.
So that's my field and that's why I am really, really happy.
We are presenting a new extract which is persimmon, so it's our latest, addition to the Mediterranean, offering.
And, so this, this is quite relevant for us.
At the same time, we are presenting existing products, but we Additional exciting clinical data in areas that were already tested, so we are beefing that up or we are opening new new avenues.
So it's a very research oriented focus here.
Awesome, really interesting, and I'm curious what inspired the development of your latest products and what makes it unique compared to other things on the market.
Our inspiration primarily comes from the directing.
With our customers and partners because of our selling model which involves direct selling, we, we get the most of our seasoned sellers and partners that get the right message on what the market wants, what our partner wants, and, and what they want is, sustainable, evidence-based, holistic, multifunctional, and But the really important tips are in which areas, so those are top secret, of course I cannot say.
Awesome.
And of course you mentioned research already and what the role that it plays at Es.
Can you talk a little bit on some new research on the health benefits of your offerings and the findings of that?
Research, we will always use the top gold standard of clinical trials, for example, for.
Which is, by the way, the first ever persimmon fruit extract standardized for weight management.
We have a structured, process, so we sometimes we jump on the dark.
We call it the Blue horizon, but mostly we use the new product development, group that we have.
We join monthly with, all our CEO, different experts.
And we develop ideas based on mostly Mediterranean diets.
We try to go from global to local to, you know, improve the traceability, but also to ensure that the products are edible, have been eaten for millennia, and, and we try to find something specific who has guests, for example.
That a fig could, lower glycemia.
It's a super sweet fruit, or that a persimmon could help you lose a considerable amount of fat and maintain, maintain, muscle mass, which is, you know, the, the post, , GLP-1 craze, now is upgrading the weight management products.
People don't want any more products that dramatic weight loss.
They want a targeted weight loss, so beauty and health, and that's what we think we are upgrading.
Can you tell us a bit more about some research findings and product developments?
Absolutely.
This is a good question because it helped me to reveal another important trend for us, which is beauty.
So particularly hair growth, we are working hard with different clinical preclinical models to evaluate one of our most important extracts, which is the sopametal extract, probably the most important flagship of Euromed that works for supporting prostate, also works for anti-hair loss.
So we tried different approaches.
To check specific cells in the scalp where where capable under the influence of testosterone, so inducing more hair loss by then treating them with dilution of our extract where somehow recovering or let's say proliferating or.
Lowering the enzymes that are transforming the hydrotestosterone into , hair loss.
We are expanding also the tested ingredients, not only to the so palmetto, which is the obvious one, but to other ingredients and how we got to these other ingredients through bioinformatics, which is really, really interesting to shortening the.
The time to clinical and what can we expect from Euromed in the future?
In the future we are having a lot of plans, a lot of research plans, but also we never forget sustainability.
So for example, we are now very excited to be in the final stages of organizing a workshop in collaboration.
At the same time at the G8 conference in Naples in 2025.
This will be our 3rd workshop on sustainability, sustainability and, and, fraud, you know, , fraud prevention.
And we, this year we are adding an extra element which we think is gonna be, really, really important.
The weather changes because those are impacting, impacting our sector, and the more our sector is impacted, the more, the more the adulteration is rampant.
So that's, that's going to be something that we call it reverse marketing because obviously you don't sell anything, but at the same time you make sure that our our sector keeps healthy and clean.
Awesome, thank you so much.
