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Volunteers sought to receive personalised nutrition and healthy lifestyle tips using an app

2022-07-25T16:49:51+02:00April 14th, 2021|Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

The Eurecat Reus technology centre has appealed for volunteers to help test a new app which will provide them with personalised nutrition and healthy lifestyle tips tailored to each person’s physical and behavioural traits and their preferences, physical condition and metabolism. This research is part of the European Preventomics (Empowering consumers to PREVENT diet-related diseases through OMICS sciences) project. It [...]

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Volunteers sought to demonstrate the efficacy of the Mediterranean diet in attaining a healthy weight and habits

2022-07-25T17:30:30+02:00February 19th, 2021|Food, Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre’s Reus site has announced a call to find 80 teenagers who would like to take part in the MED4Youthresearch project. It is designed to demonstrate that a Mediterranean diet featuring produce such as pomegranates, chickpeas, hummus, nuts and sourdough bread is effective in helping young people to attain a healthy weight and healthy [...]

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TecnomiFood Network to invest €4 million in optimising the industrial development and innovation of functional foods and nutraceuticals using omic technologies

2021-01-28T15:55:14+01:00September 25th, 2020|Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes, Health|

Over the next three years the TecnomiFood Network consortium is to spend nearly €4 million on a coordinated strategy to optimise the industrial development of foods, functional ingredients and nutraceuticals using omic technologies, which encompass research areas with enormous potential in personalised nutrition. The TecnomiFood Network is an accredited Cervera Centre of Excellence and led [...]

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Weight management ingredient wins NutraIngredients Award

2020-10-19T09:01:16+02:00July 6th, 2020|Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

A probiotic ingredient for weight control, developed by ADM Biopolis and supported by scientific evidence from studies conducted by the Eurecat technology centre, has been recognised as the Ingredient of the Year at the international NutraIngredients Award in the weight management category. Called Bifidobacterium lactis BPL1, this probiotic shows efficacy in reducing waist circumference and body fat in the stomach [...]

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Eurecat leads a study about Mediterranean diet’s beneficial effects on reducing youth obesity

2020-06-10T11:52:57+02:00May 27th, 2020|Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre leads a European-level clinical study whose main purpose is to demonstrate that an energy-restricted Mediterranean diet enriched with products typical of the Mediterranean, such as pomegranate, chickpeas, nuts and sourdough bread, is more effective in reducing weight and cardiovascular risk factors associated with youth obesity than a conventional energy-restricted low-fat diet. [...]

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Technological innovation will enable the development of personalized and healthier nutrition

2019-04-24T13:50:03+02:00April 5th, 2019|Nutrition and Health, Press Notes, Health|

“Personalization is at the cutting edge of the food industry and will enable the creation, over the next few years, of functional foods and beverages” that offer specific health-oriented benefits to particular groups of consumers based on genetic, metabolic, lifestyle-related and other factors, according to Francesc Puiggròs, the scientific director of the Biotechnology Department at [...]

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Embotits Salgot and Eurecat look to develop pork-based products that are more heart-healthy

2019-02-19T15:52:20+01:00January 28th, 2019|Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

Embotits Salgot, a company operating in the food industry, and the Eurecat technology centre, a member of Tecnio, will look to develop a functional strategy aimed at improving the nutritional profile of pork-based products (specifically sausages and hamburgers) as part of the global trend towards the consumption of food that offers health-related benefits. To achieve [...]

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The PREVENTOMICS European project will develop a biomarker-based system to send personalized advice on dietary and lifestyle habits

2019-01-15T13:38:32+01:00December 18th, 2018|Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

The PREVENTOMICS European project will develop, from this November and for 3 years, personalized plans for nutrition and lifestyle habits to improve the health of people, based on individual traits such as physical and behavioural traits, lifestyle, genotype, preferences and physical condition. The personal health plans, which will consider consumers’ needs and requirements, will reach [...]

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