Nutriventia showcases innovative ingredient delivery at SupplySide West 2024

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During SupplySide West, held in Las Vegas, Nevada from October 29-31, 2024, Nutritional Outlook spoke with Jennifer Clancy, Nutriventia’s head of global marketing, on the technology platforms for five ingredients: Melotime, Prolanza, C-Fence, CaffXtend, and TurmXTRA.

At this event, Nutriventia focused on showcasing the Art of Delivery, their philosophy of combining ingredients, technology, and innovation to deliver health solutions. “Our ingredients are obviously science-backed, but without these unique delivery solutions, it really is leaving the consumer or formulators out there unable to move to the next stage,” explained Clancy. “Our cutting-edge delivery platforms solve formulation challenges, ensuring products are easy to absorb, taste great, and deliver results.”

“Consumers just want to step away from the traditional capsules,” she added. “I think they're inconvenienced. You need water, they’re hard to swallow, and they are quite large, so everyone is really looking for alternatives. What we're highlighting here is our ingredients designed for gummy format, sustained or modified release. We're truly one of the only ones that are able to provide sustained release in the gummy format, dispersible solution, ensuring efficient absorption and maximum bioavailability.” Clancy also noted that there is no sugar added to the gummies and natural flavor is added in.

Melotime, a melatonin ingredient, is one of the time-released ingredients that comes in a gummy format, as well as tablets, capsules, stick packs (powder). It is designed to support 8-hour, restorative sleep and mimic the body’s natural sleep pattern. The release profile ensures up to 50% release in the first hour with a periodic release in a 6-hour interval for maintenance. Clancy also highlighted Nutriventia’s taste masking technology, their solution to melatonin’s bitter taste. Melotime was nominated for the 2024 Nutra Ingredients Awards.

Additionally, the Prolanza ingredient, also known as ashwanova, is an ashwagandha root extract designed for stress management. “It’s sustained release, so over time it's giving you that all-day stress support,” Clancy explained. Practical applications for Prolanza include capsules and stick packs (powder). The ingredient was rebranded as ashwanova and trademarked in New Zealand and Australia to offer better name recognition with regard to ashwagandha. The company is also working on global trademarks to rebrand the ingredient in multiple other jurisdictions.

Their C-Fence ingredient, a direct compressible granular system, is another example of sustained release technology. “It provides 24-hour immune protection and antioxidant support with 12-hour sustained release for vitamin C. Nutriventia is the only one that is able to provide the sustained release of vitamin C,” Clancy stated. The findings were supported in a pharmacokinetic study, and other health benefits include brain health, cardiovascular health, and skin health.

Nutriventia’s CaffXtend product offers a solution to the diminished effects of caffeine due to its quick absorption in the body, plus caffeine tolerance effects from repeated dosing, known as ‘caffeine crash.’ The one-a-day single dose CaffXtend comes in stick packs (powder), hard capsules, chocolates, with gummies under consideration. CaffXtend is designed to last up to 12 hours, and is reported to reduce consumers’ perception of tiredness, fatigue, and jitters, according to a 2023 clinical study.

TurmXTRA, low dose curcuminoids for supporting joint and muscle health, is a 250mg one-a-day dose with a versatile range of applications, including powdered beverages, stick packs, capsules, tablets, gummies and chews, shots, and RTDs. “That's really what makes us different than the industry, that it’s not 500mg, it's 250mg,” explained Clancy. “You'll see TurmXTRA in a lot of ready to drink sports and active nutrition.” The ingredient also won NIE New Ingredient Award in 2023 in the Sports Nutrition category and was a finalist for 2023 NutraIngredients USA Awards in the Sports Nutrition category.

A recently published study found that TurmXTRA at 250 mg taken once per day had better absorption compared to a turmeric extract capsules with 500 mg curcuminoids and 5 mg of piperine taken three times per day for a 500 mg daily dosage. The comparison is apt because piperine is often used in combination with curcuminoids to support absorption.

“The heartbeat of our group this year is all around our innovation lab,” Clancy stated. “So we're really able to showcase our ingredients, but in various application formulas to be able to take it one step further and not just be a supplier of ingredients, but really to show at SupplySide West that we can take it one step further and offer concepts and solutions beyond just the brand of ingredient.”

Reference

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