MARKETS

The nutraceutical or food supplement industry has undergone tremendous growth in recent years, calling for a high degree of innovation, swiftness, flexibility, and adaptation to the market.

At Natac, we work in close collaboration with you to develop innovative natural extracts with a robust scientific foundation. This means not only providing the natural ingredient, but also that we are able to help you with preliminary studies of both the market and your competition, the development and formulation of the final product, integrating innovative ingredients, all the way to manufacturing the final product (if necessary) or collaborating with your marketing department to define how best to position the product on the market.

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The pharmaceutical industry demands active, botanical pharmaceutical ingredients to develop plant-based medicines, as well as highly purified natural molecules for use as starting materials with which to synthesise active pharmaceutical ingredients.

At Natac, we are experts in the complex process involved in developing these kinds of products and we avail you of our expertise and the necessary technologies to provide you with customised solutions to suit your needs.

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"Let food be thy medicine"

Even as far back as 25 centuries ago, Hippocrates of Kos defined what the consumer of the 21^st century is demanding: a healthier diet adapted to the new needs characterised by a lifestyle that requires foods which provide all the nutrients necessary for a healthy life. Functional foods are rapidly filling consumers’ cupboards and refrigerators.

At Natac, we help you develop innovative, functional foods, including those that have EFSA- approved health claims if necessary, bearing in mind all the stages and areas needed to successfully develop your new functional food.

In addition to providing the functional ingredient, we can help you with market studies, high priority areas of health, the development and manufacture of new functional ingredients, incorporation of these ingredients into food matrices, stability studies, ingredient-matrix interaction, sensory analysis, documentation, preclinical and clinical studies, marketing positioning, and much more.

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The animal nutrition sector is witnessing significant changes motivated by legislation that is more oriented toward natural solutions which end users increasingly demand.

At Natac, we help you meet these new demands, thanks to a wide variety of new, natural ingredients, successfully tested in various farm animal species (monogastrics, ruminants, and aquaculture) with the aim of enhancing, not only the animal’s overall health status, but also production yields.

The benefits our ingredients provide can be listed as:

• Antimicrobial/ anti-parasitic
• Anti-stress
• Antioxidants
• Anti-inflammatory
• Aid respiratory function
• Improve meat quality
• Help joints
• Help to protect the liver
• Aid digestive health
• Promote growth
• Boost the immune system

Our division dedicated to pet food ingredients also offers a wide selection of possibilities to create functional feeds.

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The cosmetics market is another sector that is undergoing a consumer revolution, moving toward the use of natural ingredients that inspire greater confidence without missing out on the beneficial effects being sought.

At Natac, we have worked intensively on extracting and isolating families of phytochemical compounds, turning them into efficacious ingredients for use in topical, as well as nutricosmetic formulations.

Our ingredients can help to minimise cellular ageing; have firmer, more glowing skin; fight against the passage of time, bad habits, and overexposure to the sun, and recover irritated, inflamed skin. This is done by blocking lipid peroxyl-oxidation from the membranes, stimulating microcirculation and regeneration of collagen fibres. Furthermore, these extracts can fight against free radicals, slow protein oxidation, calm irritation, and reduce inflammation, and much more.

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