High-Value Nutrition – Science for Business

Martin Kussmann, PhD

Professor, The Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland

Chief Scientist HVN

What I am going to tell you…

• HVN health themes

• Science push – business pull

• Asian consumers and NZ food

• Where do we stand today ?

• Where do we go tomorrow ?

HVN Themes & Leading Institutions

1. Asian Consumers

2. Food Science

3. Gastrointestinal Health

4. Immune Health

5. Metabolic Health

6. Infant Health

7. Mobility

HVN Projects, Leaders & Partners

• Who are our Asian consumers ? Roger Harker 1:50 pm Consumer

• Protect and deliver food bioactives Harjinder Singh Food

• Assess IP, retail and regulatory Harjinder Singh 1:10 pm Context

• Prevent diabetes and manage weight – Sally Poppitt

• Lipids from grass-fed beef – Emma Bermingham

• Kiwifruit bioactives – John Monro Metabolism

• Defence against influenza and pollution – Elizabeth Forbes-Blom

• Natural milk to prevent allergy – Alison Hodgkinson Immunity

• Gastrointestinal health, comfort and wellbeing – Nicole Roy

• Milk with special casein for GI comfort – M. Barnett Gut

• Green-shell mussel bioactives – Matthew Miller

• Combined proteins – Simon Loveday Mobility

• Fibres for better baby sleep – Gerald Tannock Infants

NZ Foods

Business

Science

Asian Consumers

Food Bioactives

Fibres for Sleep

Combined Proteins

IP Retail Regulatory

Where do we stand today ?

• “Elite Gut” cohort of the “Worried Well”.

Food for (GI) health, wellbeing, performance.

Characterisation of recruited consumers with digestive problems ongoing.

Methods being developed for clinical characterization of these consumers.

• …against cold/influenza and pollution-caused airway inflammation.

Clinical study designed to link gut microbiota with influenza vaccine response.

Establishment of pre-clinical models for food-health relationships.

• Prevent diabetes and manage weight.

Clinical study designed with young Asians at risk for diabetes (TOFI).

Methods being developed for clinical characterization of these consumers.

GI Comfort

Immune Defence

Metabolic Health

Where do we stand today ?

• Consumer insights from literature + pre-competitive knowledge

from: NZ F&B companies, NZ gov’t agencies, Asian academics.

• Protect and deliver bioactives from farm to fork.

Identifying key bioactives, designing processes, timing release in the body.

• Reports on markets, products and IP delivered.

• …for optimal uptake, digestion and

muscle maintenance in Chinese seniors.

• …because they can deliver sustained energy during the night.

Premium weaning food for evening.

Asian Consumers

Food Bioactives

Fibres for Sleep

Combined Proteins

IP Retail Regulatory

Where do we stand today ?

• for better glucose tolerance in Asians. Cohort being recruited.

• Less processed, yet safe milk for enhanced GI comfort.

Validation of animal models ongoing.

• …with only A2 b-casein for better GI comfort.

Milk samples provided. PhD hired to clarify establish A2 b-casein benefits.

• …may improve cholesterol control.

Lipid analysis of beef ongoing.

• …with bioactives that can promote joint and bone health.

Method for mussel analysis being developed.

Special Casein Milk

Grass-fed beef lipids

Green-shell mussels

Kiwifruits

Natural Milk

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Where do we go tomorrow ?

• Complete phase 1 research 2015 – 2019.

• Strengthen science focus and define science plan 2016 – 2019.

• Support product claims and commercialisation in business-led projects.

• Initiate further HVN – industry co-investments.

• Further develop HVN national and international profile.

What I have told you…

• HVN health themes

• Science push – business pull

• Asian consumers and NZ food

• Where we stand today

• Where we want to go

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