NutraIngredients Awards: Finalists revealed

08-Mar-2021 - Last updated on 30-Apr-2024 at 17:40 GMT

Our panel of expert judges have scored a record breaking number of entries and the NutraIngredients' 2021 Awards finalists can now be announced.

The winners of the 2021 awards will be announced in an online awards ceremony on Wednesday 12^th May 2021.

This year, every one of our 16 award categories received ample entries meaning all finalists provided entries which really shone bright.

We are proud to announce our finalists are:

Ingredient of the Year: Beauty from Within

Atopic Dermatitis Probiotic Formulation - ADM Biopolis

Dermaval, FutureCeuticals, - Vaneeghen

Morikol - DolCas Biotech LLC

Ingredient of the Year: Cognitive Function

Affron - Pharmactive Biotech Products

Cognitaven - Anklam Extrakt GmbH

Concental - Finzelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Ingredient of the Year: Healthy Ageing

Concental - Finzelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Safr'Inside - Activ'Inside

Urox - Seipel Group Pty Ltd

Ingredient of the Year: Prebiotic

Bimuno - Clasado Biosciences

Livaux - Anagenix Ltd

Olifructine(tm) AFs - Nutriagaves de México S.A. de C.V.

Ingredient of the Year: Sports Nutrition

Creapure - AlzChem Trostberg GmbH

Enxtra - Enovate Biolife Pvt Ltd

HydroCurc - Pharmako Biotechnologies Pty Ltd

Ingredient of the Year: Weight Management

Bergacyn FF - Dolcas Biotech LLC

Liposan Ultra - Primex Iceland

SynBalance MetSyn - ROELMI HPC

Product of the Year: Botanical

CAPS cerebro featuring Rhodiolife - Nektium Pharma S.L.

Ovosicare - Caronositol Fertility - Biosearch Life

Urox - Seipen Group Pty Ltd

Product of the Year: Immune Support

Pro Immuno - IENP

Vitamin D3000 Oral Spray - BetterYou Ltd

Wild Earth Immune Support - Natures Aid Ltd

Product of the Year: Omega-3

Möller’s Cod Liver Oil - Vivamax sp. z o.o.

Tingana Beyond Omega - Ringana

UnoCardio Vegan - WHC Labs BV

Product of the Year: Probiotic

Biome Lift - Activated Probiotics

EnteroSatys - TargEDys

Sivomixx 800 - Ormendes SA

Product of the Year: Sports Nutrition

Protein Rebel Reload - Protein Rebel

Revvies Energy Strips - Revvies Energy Strips Ltd

Sports ProResolve - Azue Global Nutrition EU SL

Nutrition Research Project

BPL1 LTA MoA - ADM Biopolis

Characterization of a cohort and specialized nutritional intervention in patients suffering Long Covid with the aim of improving their quality of life. “ARACOV” - Solutex GC SL

Lactobacillus plantarum WJL, a Precibiomic(r) strain promoting capacity for protein degradation to enhance juvenile growth and host nutrition - TargEDys

Personalised Nutrition Initiative

Atlas Health food tracking app - Atlas Biomed

Qina platform - Qina Consulting unipessoal LDA

vitmedics.com - Total Health and Wellbeing Ltd

Start-up Award

Clutch Cognition ApS

KÄÄPÄ Biotech

Phytaphix

Editors Award for Functional Foods Innovation

HT Bifidobacterium lactis (HT-BPL1) postbiotic - ADM

Immunity Blend - Alianza Team USA

Nanocapsules of Proteins - Nucaps Nanotechnology, S.L.

The final award of the ceremony will go to the NutraChampion, which celebrates an individual who has dedicated themselves to, and achieved a lot for the industry.

Ewa Hudson, Director of Insights at Lumina Intelligence and lead judge of these awards, said: "Huge congratulations to those who have made it to the shortlist as a NutraIngredients 2021 Awards finalist. With a record number of award entries – your product, ingredient or research project absolutely had to have the X factor in order to make the cut.

"Your commitment to science and innovation was outstanding. Judges had a very hard time judging, as many applications were equally impressive. With such stiff competition, it really is an amazing achievement to have made it this far."

Anyone who would like to attend the online awards presentation, can do so for free - simply register here.

We give our thanks to the judges for this year's awards:

Jens Bleiel, Independent Food Innovation Consultant for Bleiel Ltd

Will Chu, Science Editor at NutraIngredients

Patrick Coppens, Director of Regulatory & Scientific Affairs at Food Supplements Europe

Kacey Culliney, Editor of CosmeticsDesign-Europe

Sandra Einerhand, PhD, Founder of Einerhand Science & Innovation BV

Mal Evans, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at KGK Science Inc.

Joerg Gruenwald, Founder & CEO for analyze & realize GmbH

Nikki Hancocks, Trends and Innovation Editor at NutraIngredients

Ewa Hudson, Director of Insights at Lumina Intelligence

James Hudson, Performance Nutritionist & Recovery Sports Scientist at Gloucester Rugby