Nutrition
Nutrition
Rising obesity levels, an aging population, specific dietary requirements, the increase in the incidences of certain diseases and a general trend towards healthy lifestyles continue to drive demand for more varied, tasty, functional, convenient and nutritious food and beverage products.
At Kerry Dairy Ingredients we have in excess of thirty years experience developing innovative nutritional dairy solutions for infant & medical nutrition, sports & lifestyle nutrition as well as mainstream food and beverage markets the world over.
Our technological expertise, innovative flair and extensive market insights ensure that we are ideally positioned and aligned to address the needs of these dynamic markets. Our product development teams work closely with nutrition companies and food and beverage manufacturers to ensure their specific functional and nutritional requirements are being addressed.
Performance protiens, enhanced texture, improved stability, specific dietary needs, superior flavour and mouthfeel whatever your requirements we are confident we have the essential ingredients to help you succeed in your sector.
Infant Nutrition
Many significant changes have taken place in the infant nutrition sector over the past number of years. Of particular note is the evolution of a more sophisticated infant milk formula. Through the inclusion of ingredients such as LCPUFA’s, protein fractions and hydrolysed proteins many infant formula producers have carved a unique niche for themselves in the market place.
Representing over half of the total market in volume terms, Asia is by far the largest and fastest growing market for infant milk formula. The infant milk formula sector in Asia is a very dynamic market offering significant opportunities for ingredient manufacturers and infant nutrition companies alike. China represents the lion share of this market and has emerged as the unparalleled leader in growth terms. Stable economic growth, the one child policy, an increase in the number of working mothers and rising disposable income levels are among the factors contributing to growth.
Two key innovation drivers underpin development within the infant milk formula sector; proximity to human breast milk and enhanced nutrition. The primary development platforms for the sector include visual and brain development, reduced allergenicity, improved digestibility and intestinal development.
Medical Nutrition
Nutritional status is a very important factor in the recovery process from all kinds of surgical interventions. Nutrition also has a well-recognised role to play in fighting disease. Many of today’s most chronic conditions require long-term use of sip feed products. When a patient needs to consume a sip feed for months or even years, then it becomes critically important to enhance product acceptability in terms of palatability, flavour, texture, viscosity, variety and service.
The link between obesity chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, strokes, diabetes and metabolic disorders are well documented. According to the WHO an estimated 17 million people die of cardiovascular disease, particularly heart disease and strokes, every year. This is equivalent to almost 1/3 of all deaths globally. By 2020 heart disease and stroke will become the leading cause of both death and disability worldwide with the number of fatalities set to reach over 20 million per year and in excess of 24 million by 2030.
Sports & Lifestyle Nutrition
The face of sports nutrition has changed in recent years from being a niche sector of specialist sports products to meeting mass-market demand. The traditional sports nutrition consumer accepted that sports nutrition products were purely functional to assist in performance and development and issues such as taste, texture and convenience held little relevance. The introduction of mainstream consumers to this market and a demand for everyday lifestyle nutrition has put greater emphasis on priorities such as convenient tasteful offerings and more nutritious variants of everyday products
Nutrition bars, currently worth in excess of US$2 billion market in the US, are still at development stages in Europe and gaining market share rapidly. Due to the benefits bars offer in terms of convenience and taste they are the fastest growing sector within the sports nutrition arena. Outside of nutrition bars, health and ‘better for you’ options are driving growth in the snack bar market also. In general, consumers are looking for alternative healthier, indulgent on the go options. The demand for more convenient offerings in the sports nutrition market has also spurred an increase in demand for ready to drink nutrition shakes and meal replacement beverages. Taste is of paramount importance in this sector due to the high protein contents of these applications.
Product Offering
Ultranor™ – Performance milk proteins
The Ultranor™ range of performance milk proteins includes ultrafiltered milk protein isolates and concentrates as well as milk proteins with enhanced functional and nutritional properties. The entire Ultranor™ range is derived from fresh skim milk.
Profile™ Demineralised whey ingredients
The Profile™ Demineralised whey portfolio includes a comprehensive range of selectively and partially demineralised products to suit a wide array of applications. Profile Demineralised whey is internally produced and manufactured at source.
Profile™ GOS enriched whey
Profile™ GOS is a galacto-oligosaccharide enriched whey powder specifically produced to meet the nutritional and functional needs of infant and medical nutrition markets. The prebiotic benefits of GOS are widely acclaimed including: promotion of beneficial bacteria, humanisation of infant formula and enhanced mineral absorption.
Hyprol™ Hydrolysed proteins
The Hyprol™ range offers complete nutrition and texture solutions for infant, sports, enteral and dietary drink sectors. Our technological competencies in dairy, coupled with enzyme research and production expertise within Kerry Bio-Science, ensures that we are at the forefront of developments within the milk protein hydrolysate category.
San-A-Creme™ Nutritional lipid bases
San-A-Crème™ Nutritional lipid bases include co-dried milk proteins with nutritional lipids high in Omega 3 and Omega 6. Outside of our standard product portfolio we work closely with our key customers to offer semi-finished base formula solutions.
Beatreme™ Dairy and cultured milk ingredients
Under the Beatreme™ umbrella we offer an unrivalled range of high-quality, all-natural, spray-dried dairy and cultured milk powders with distinctive flavour and functional characteristics.
Applications
INFANT
- Infant & Toddler Milks
- Starter Formula
- Follow-on Formula
- Growing up Milks
- Baby Foods:
- Prepared Meals
- Juice
- Cereals
- Desserts
MEDICAL
- Nutritional Beverages
- Enteral Feeds – Sip/Tube
- General
- Disease Specific
- Recovery / Convalescence products
- Modified texture products
SPORTS & LIFESTYLE
- Nutritional Bars
- Nutritional Beverages
- Wellness/Cereal Bars
- Ice-cream and fermented dairy