Wellness Foods Europe

Food products that support or improve digestive health, such as probiotics and prebiotics, can play an important role in our overall health and wellbeing. Leading Dutch research organization TNO, based in the cities of Zeist and Leiden, is investigating the effects of nutrition on weight management, the immune system and intestinal barrier function. New insights in these areas will facilitate health claim substantiation and assessment.

Beta-glucan, is a valuable biopolymer and currently on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Up to now barley was merely known as brewing addition but is now grown to increase the natural level of beta-glucan. Numerous clinical trials are confirming the various positive effects of beta-glucan to human health. SANACEL betaG, a barley fibre introduced by CFF GmbH & Co KG (ca. 25 % beta-glucan), captures the european market by nutritionally and technologically improving foods.

Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals and vitamins are in every mouth – in the truest sense of the word. Regrettably a very important component of the carbohydrates are often forgotten – the dietary fibres. In the past dietary fibres were considered to be “dead weight”, hovever this dead weight of then today has mutated into an unmistakable omen for a healthy nutrition. There is hardly a global producer of foodstuffs who doesn’t have a own trade name or product line including dietary fibres. In the meantime “gut health” can be read in a considerable frequency. Thereby dietary fibres are an essential component for gut health – here company J. Rettenmaier + Söhne (JRS) from Rosenberg, Germany made a mark for themselves. The development of dietary fibres of the second – and in the meantime of the third generation as well – brought the company the reputation as a worldwide leading manufacturer. The success of the company can be returned to the isolation of dietary fibres based on cereals, vegetables and fruit. Because of the multitude of the developed products by now it is possible to accomplish a dietary fibre enrichment in nearly all areas of foodstuff production. This article is a general survey over the terminology as well as over the nutritional significance of