Nutraceuticals

Nutraceuticals represent a burgeoning area of the health food sector that may have significant impact on community health.

Nutraceuticals are naturally occurring substances (including proteins) or part thereof (e.g. peptides) that are present in raw and processed foods (e.g. milk and dairy products) that display biological activities of health benefit. Such activities have been identified from a variety of plant and animal sources.

• • The global nutraceuticals market grew from $38.2 billion in 1999 to $46.7 billion in 2002, at nearly 7% per annum.
  • This market is expected to grow by 9.9% annually, reaching $74.7 billion by 2007. (Business Communications Company, magazine 2003)

HealthLinx’ proprietary Cryptomics™ platform represents a powerful, cost-effective and rapid process for the discovery of nutraceuticals and has broad application in the primary industry sector in the development of functional foods and in the identification of bioactive peptides for the development of traditional therapeutics.