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Nutraceuticals is the use of vitamins and nutritious products to improve human health. The nutraceutical business is developing active ingredients for the following market segments:
- Dietary Supplements - e.g. vitamin capsules & tablets;
- Personal Care - e.g. skin care products; and
- Functional Foods and Beverages - e.g. nutritionally enhanced foods.
Phosphagenics’ nutraceutical business is a revenue-generating growth business.
The first commercial product is Phospha E®, a novel patented derivative of vitamin E, and is available as:
- A Personal Care ingredient (Vital ET™) – globally
Phosphagenics is collaborating with Nestlé Nutrition to develop Phospha E® for use in nutritional products that target the prevention and treatment of metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome is characterised by a group of metabolic risk factors – abdominal obesity and elevated blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides and blood glucose. The root causes of metabolic syndrome are overweight/obesity, physical inactivity, and genetic factors.
Nutraceutical Product Portfolio
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Functional Foods - Metabolic Syndrome |
The route to market for Phosphagenics’ nutraceutical products is through partnering with companies that have established distribution networks within the relevant market segments. Phosphagenics does not intend to become a direct marketer of products to consumers, and aims to manufacture and supply the active ingredients to its partners or distributors where commercially feasible. |