Nutricia pioneers its first plant-based medical nutrition drink

 

• The variety of individuals choosing a plant-based food plan is rising: greater than 1 out of three Europeans select a flexitarian, vegetarian or vegan food plan,¹ and 16% of sufferers requiring medical vitamin search plant-based choices.²
• When optimum vitamin is troublesome on account of sickness, medical vitamin may also help deal with dietary necessities that can not be met via regular meals alone and assist affected person outcomes.
• Nutricia’s Fortimel^® PlantBased Energy is a brand new dietary resolution healthcare professionals (HCPs) can suggest to sufferers selecting vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian diets.

Today, Nutricia pronounces the launch of its first plant-based, able to drink, oral dietary complement, Fortimel^® PlantBased Energy, particularly formulated to fulfill the dietary wants of people who find themselves malnourished or liable to malnutrition on account of sickness. It is nutritionally full, with a mix of high-quality plant protein constructed from pea and soy sources,^3,4,5 and is appropriate for vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian diets in addition to for sufferers with cow’s milk protein allergy. The launch comes at a time when the variety of individuals choosing a plant-based food plan is rising: one third of Europeans have chosen a flexitarian food plan.¹

Explaining the necessity for plant-based medical vitamin choices through the ESPEN 2022 Congress Dr. Anne Holdoway, a registered dietitian from the UK, says: “Nutrition is not only concerning the vitamins. It additionally has many connotations in life, concerning the lives we lead, the interplay with different individuals, and respecting values and preferences. This is equally true in medical vitamin, the place the significance of individualized dietary care that’s in step with individuals’s life-style preferences is essential. To present this sort of individualized dietary care, plant-based choices are a welcome evolution of medical vitamin.”

With the launch of Fortimel^® PlantBased Energy, Nutricia builds on the experience of its dad or mum firm Danone in plant vitamin to broaden its Fortimel portfolio of distinctive, clinically confirmed medical vitamin options tailor-made to fulfill sufferers’ on a regular basis wants. A latest research performed within the UK amongst a bunch of sufferers residing in the neighborhood with or liable to malnutrition, demonstrated Fortimel^® PlantBased Energy considerably improved protein & power consumption, and was properly tolerated over a 4-week interval.^6,7 Furthermore, adherence to the dietary intervention over the course of the research was 94%.⁶ Ensuring good adherence to medical vitamin sufferers have been prescribed is a key think about selling improved affected person outcomes.⁸

“We consider everybody ought to really feel empowered to comply with their dietary preferences particularly in moments after they want particular medical dietary assist,” says Manuela Borella, Vice President, Global Plant Based Strategy & Business Acceleration for Nutricia’s dad or mum firm Danone. And with the rising variety of adults embracing a plant-based food plan we’re delighted to pioneer our first plant-based medical vitamin drink assembly the wants of sufferers with malnutrition and a plant-based life-style.”

Nutricia is launching Fortimel^® PlantBased Energy in two flavors – a mix of mango and keenness fruit flavors, and mocha, a mix of espresso & chocolate flavors – offering healthcare professionals with extra choices alongside the present vary of dairy-based Fortimel oral dietary dietary supplements. The new product is now out there in The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Finland and the Czech Republic. It will likely be out there in different European nations later in 2023.

Fortimel^® PlantBased Energy is a Food for Special Medical Purposes for the dietary administration of illness associated malnutrition. It should be used underneath medical supervision.

 

About Nutricia

Building on 125 years of analysis, innovation and care, Nutricia pioneers medical vitamin that helps allow life-changing and life-saving well being outcomes, so that folks can reside their life to its fullest.
Nutricia helps wholesome progress and improvement in youth and performs its half addressing a number of the world’s largest well being challenges from delivery via to outdated age. The Nutricia portfolio contains a variety of dietary options for pre-term delivery, faltering progress, meals allergy, uncommon metabolic ailments, age-related circumstances and persistent illness, akin to frailty, most cancers, stroke and early Alzheimer’s illness. 
As a part of Danone, Nutricia embraces the corporate’s “One Planet. One Health” body of motion reflecting that the well being of individuals and the well being of the planet are interconnected and due to this fact seeks to guard and nourish each.

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