Vitafoods Europe 2024: NutriLeads dives into gut health and immunity benefits of precision prebiotics
31 May 2024 | Nutrileads
At Vitafoods Europe 2024, we spoke to Leilah Thiart, senior communications manager at NutriLeads, a food processing company based in Wageningen, the Netherlands. She told us about Benicaros, the company’s prebiotic fiber ingredient launched this year and how its dual mode of action makes it particularly beneficial for gut and immune health. Thiart detailed what makes the product a precision prebiotic and how that helps target the microbiome. Its low-dose formulation allows for various product applications, such as gummies, vitamin shots and dairy beverages.
Hello everybody, this is William Bradford Nichols with Nutrition Insight, and I am here live at Vita Foods Europe in Geneva, Switzerland, and today we are speaking with Leila Thiort, the senior communications manager for Nutral Leads.
Hello Leila, how are you today?
I'm fine, thanks, William, and thanks for having us.
We're excited to talk to you, and this is Nutral Lead's first experience at Vita Foods, and you've just launched in March, I believe you told me, here in Europe.
Can you tell us about what you're representing here today and what that means?
Sure, so thanks for the introduction.
As you said, we've launched this year with Benicairos, our precision prebiotic ingredient.
Benicaros is pretty unique in the fact that it has a dual mode of action, so it's it's beneficial for the, for your gut health, but also for your immune health.
It's a precision prebiotic and we say that because it.
Has a very specific structure and this structure enables it to feed only specific families, bacterial families in the gut microbiome that are present in all humans.
This ensures that the beneficial impact that it has is consistent in everybody, in every type of gut.
It doesn't matter what kind of microbiome environment it lands in.
Next to the fact that it has these precision prebiotic benefits, it is, it also trains the innate immune system to respond faster, smarter, and stronger in the event of, , an infection with a cold, , influenza virus.
We have clinical.
Evidence also proving that the symptoms are reduced significantly, significantly and that the duration of the cold is, is, shortened also significantly.
These, results are all published on our website, for anybody who wants to find out more.
We also have clinical evidence, recent clinical evidence on the gut microbiome modulation that I just spoke about, but adding to these benefits, this product really is unique in the sense that it's a fiber, but it's extremely low dose, almost unheard of in the market.
It's daily serving size is as low as 300 mg, and next to that it's also.
Meets consumer expectations because it's upcycled, it's plant-based.
We have organic formats, it's halal, kosher, you name it.
And so if it's that little, then I imagine, or if it's such a small dose that you can use, I can imagine that lends itself to many different versatility with formats and applications.
Can you tell us a little bit about its versatility.
Spotted indeed it's very versatile.
It has very favorable formulation properties, so it's also water stable, highly, water soluble, pH stable, heat stable, it can basically be applied in almost any application, you can think of from gummies to, vitamin shots to.
To dairy beverages, any kind of beverages.
We're also looking at possibilities in the protein shaker market or protein bars to enhance immunity while doing intensive training or sports.
So it's really the possibilities are very broad.
It's wonderful.
Can you tell me a little bit about what market trends this product speaks to?
I think, Benicaros as a product taps into, many different trends because at the moment, you know, gut health is a big thing because, you know, all your health starts from the gut.
So the fact that we have a product that's specifically, feeding the beneficial bacteria in your gut that help your, that really support your general health is something that's really spot on.
Next to that, another thing is obviously our immune health is also an important thing.
People are becoming more and more aware of that we need to be more proactive in managing our health, also our immune health, and this also taps into that, as I said before, trains your immune system.
To be sharper and stronger and smarter, , next to that, the, upcycled, the upcycle trend is also huge at the moment, and we also, you know, offer upcycled products, and also the fact that it's plant-based is also huge.
Everybody wants natural.
Plant-based products nowadays, so I think there's a lot of different areas that we're definitely tapping into there.
It's amazing.
So it definitely, yeah, it definitely checks a lot of the box, the trends, boxes of trends we've seen too.
Can you tell us a little bit about what we might be able to expect from neutral leads in the future?
So right now we are very focused on getting our name out here in the European market, making sure people know about this groundbreaking innovation.
So if they're looking to innovate their product portfolio, that they, that this is really the ingredient to do that.
So that's our key focus right now.
But at the same time we are also continuing our research because we do see possibilities here and there of the product enhancing health.
In other ways as , so we're, we're in the process of doing other research, so you should be able to expect some results coming up within the next period coming.
That's great stuff, Leila.
Thank you so much for talking to us today.
Thank you for having us.
Thank you for sharing your insights, and we look forward to hearing more from neutral leaders in the future.
Great, thank you.
Bye.
