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Comet Bio: Exploring Arrabina’s fiber credentials, flavor diversity & microbiome impact
Comet Bio: Exploring Arrabina’s fiber credentials, flavor diversity & microbiome impact
Today’s consumers consistently seek foods and beverages that deliver not only great taste and texture but also functional benefits. According to Comet Bio, a food tech company specializing in producing prebiotic dietary fiber using proprietary upcycling technology, brands can strengthen and differentiate their product appeal by focusing on gut health claims. Promoting fiber is a prime opportunity, as it promotes digestive health and satiety, which is of high interest to consumers looking to manage their weight. Fiber’s functional benefits today extend far beyond interest in gut health, which has historically been a core focus. 
Beyond infant nutrition: HMOs extend into healthy aging, nootropics & disease prevention
Beyond infant nutrition: HMOs extend into healthy aging, nootropics & disease prevention
While predominantly linked to infant formula, human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are moving into adult nutrition as research connects them to gut, metabolic, and healthy-aging benefits, with further opportunities in sports and medical nutrition.Experts from Cabio, dsm-firmenich, and Novonesis tell Nutrition Insight how HMOs complement lifestyle-related disease prevention, while FrieslandCampina Ingredients highlights how pairing galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) with HMOs broadens oligosaccharide diversity for infants.
FiE 2025: Jungbunzlauer unlocks mineral formulations for gummy supplements
FiE 2025: Jungbunzlauer unlocks mineral formulations for gummy supplements
At the recent Food ingredients Europe (FiE) 2025 trade show in Paris, France, Jungbunzlauer highlighted its latest mineral innovations, enabling their use in ever-popular gummy supplements. These solutions aim to help brands deliver formulations with an optimal mineral absorption without impacting taste or texture. At the trade show floor, Nutrition Insight met with Dr. Sabrina Weiher, product manager at Jungbunzlauer, to discuss how the company’s solutions address mineral formulation challenges. 
Quatrefolic® Proven to Boost Skin Protection and Regeneration
Quatrefolic® Proven to Boost Skin Protection and Regeneration
Discover how Quatrefolic® can elevate your next formulation. New research confirms its ability to reduce oxidative stress, enhance cellular repair, and improve fibroblast activity—delivering measurable, science-backed benefits for skin health. As demand for effective nutricosmetic solutions grows, Quatrefolic® stands out as a premium, reliable ingredient supported by proven performance.

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Active menopausal women: new clinical evidence in joint health
Active menopausal women: new clinical evidence in joint health
Unlock the opportunities within the market of active women with Chondractiv™ Move. Join Symrise market insights and scientific experts, as they unveil trends and exciting new clinical study results about the 4-in-1 mobility solution. By attending the webinar, you will discover how Chondractiv™ Move can help you formulate natural, innovative, and science-backed nutraceutical products supporting physical exercise and active lifestyle, targeting menopausal women.
Lallemand Health Solutions: Probiotics for pregnancy, PMS and healthy aging
Lallemand Health Solutions: Probiotics for pregnancy, PMS and healthy aging

Bérengère Feuz, marketing director at Lallemand Health Solutions, discusses new research on the company’s Prenatis prenatal probiotic. Studies show it reduces maternal infections and improves newborn gut health, while also alleviating PMS symptoms like bloating. Feuz previews findings on the effects of its Cerenity probiotic in older adults, revealing positive results for mobility and the gut-muscle axis, highlighting Lallemand’s commitment to lifespan health.

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Gut metabolite linked to choline found to restore insulin sensitivity
Gut metabolite linked to choline found to restore insulin sensitivity
International scientists have discovered a gut microbial metabolite that helps fight insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Trimethylamine (TMA) processes dietary choline and plays a key role in restoring insulin sensitivity. 
Carbyne Equity Partners acquires Suanfarma’s SuanNutra, entering nutraceutical...
Carbyne Equity Partners acquires Suanfarma’s SuanNutra, entering nutraceutical market
Carbyne Equity Partners has acquired Suanfarma’s nutraceutical ingredients business, marking the private equity firm’s entry into a new sector. The move enables Carbyne’s further R&D-driven business with robust management teams.
Rousselot and PB Leiner consolidate collagen and gelatin production
Rousselot and PB Leiner consolidate collagen and gelatin production
Darling Ingredients and Tessenderlo Group have signed a definitive agreement to combine the collagen and gelatin segments of their companies, Rousselot and PB Leiner, into a new, collagen-based nutrition company. With the move, which was first announced last May, the companies aim to capitalize on global collagen growth. They note that no cash or initial investment is required from either company. 
“Familiar flavors”: Danone calls for patient-centric medical nutrition to...
“Familiar flavors”: Danone calls for patient-centric medical nutrition to improve adherence
Danone underscores the importance of personalized medical nutrition with familiar flavors to help patients adhere to their prescribed plans and support their recovery. The company’s specialized nutrition brand, Nutricia, recently launched its first savory-flavored solution in the Fortimel PlantBased range. Clinical evidence indicates that the product improves nutritional status after four weeks, when used as prescribed. The high-protein, high-energy medical nutrition drink supports patients with malnutrition due to medical conditions or illness, bringing flavors and formats that “feel more connected to patients’ routines and preferences.” 
Nerve-gut axis found to regulate intestinal barrier, lowering allergy risk
Nerve-gut axis found to regulate intestinal barrier, lowering allergy risk
A new study has discovered that the intestinal nervous system regulates the intestinal barrier, which, when disrupted, can lead to allergies.
EU agrees deforestation regulation delay as review clause leaves industry in...
EU agrees deforestation regulation delay as review clause leaves industry in compliance limbo

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The European Council and Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on a one-year postponement of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), but a mandated simplification review before the new deadline creates fresh uncertainty for F&B supply chains already navigating the balance between compliance costs and competitive advantage. 
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FiE 2025: Nutrition innovations for longevity, metabolic...
At the recent Food ingredients Europe (FiE) trade show in Paris, France, nutrition companies showcased their innovations to support healthy aging, weight management, mental well-being, metabolic health, and skin longevity. On the show floor, Nutrition Insight met with ADM, Arla Foods Ingredients, Monteloeder by SuanNutra, and PB Leiner to discuss how their science-backed biotics, protein, botanicals, and collagen can be incorporated into everyday foods and beverages. At FiE, ADM won the Health Innovation award for its Lactobacillus gasseri CP2305 postbiotic, which supports stress, mood, and sleep. Marie-Bénédicte Charpentier, marketing director for EMEA at ADM, told us this ingredient is a “new star” in functional postbiotics. 
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“Reboot the system”: WHO’s new GLP-1 guidance urges...
The WHO warns that the current production levels of GLP-1 therapies are insufficient to equitably provide care for the billion people suffering from obesity. While advocating the long-term use of these medications, it calls for health care systems to focus on person-centered care with fair access to treatments. As the WHO approves the long-term use of GLP-1 (over six months), it also suggests combining it with intensive behavioral therapy (IBT). This involves creating structured goals for exercise and diet, restricting energy intake, receiving weekly counseling, and conducting routine progress assessments. 
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“Feeding Healthy Tomorrows”: How Univar Solutions supports...
As consumer interest in wellness, healthy aging, and performance nutrition continues to grow, ingredient suppliers are adjusting their portfolios and development strategies to meet new demands. Addressing this, Ingredients + Specialties from Univar Solutions is innovating around GLP-1-related dietary changes, rising expectations around protein quality and functionality, and increasing attention to sustainability in formulation.

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Active agingDec2025

Innova Market Insights data show growth in active nutrition launches with a healthy aging claim from October 2020 to September 2023. Additionally, 75% of consumers worldwide consider healthy aging to ...

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Trends in supplements for men’s healthDec 2025

Innova Market Insights data shows that 58% of male consumers globally take multivitamins and minerals to age healthily. This has fueled the increase in men’s health supplements, with a +5% year-over-year growth from October 2023 to September 2025. Zinc and vitamin B were the leading ingredients in men’s health supplement launches, while cassia is an exciting new ingredient showing growth.

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Lallemand Health Solutions: Probiotics for pregnancy, PMS and healthy aging

Bérengère Feuz, marketing director at Lallemand Health Solutions, discusses new research on the company’s Prenatis prenatal probiotic. Studies show it reduces maternal infections and improves newborn gut health, while also alleviating PMS symptoms like bloating. Feuz previews findings on the...

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