Nutraceuticals: The Road Ahead

86 Pages·2017·1.67 MB·English

Nutraceuticals:
The Road Ahead
Dr.Paranjothy Kanni
Director – Technical
Phytotech Extracts (P) Ltd
Bengaluru
Nutraceuticals
“Nutraceuticals are defined as “Any substance that is
food or part of food that provides Medical and/or Health
benefits including prevention and treatment of disease”
Dr. Steve De Felice “Foundation for innovation in
Medicine -US ” in 1989
.
Success
Success will not come to you.
You have to go after it
Nutraceuticals
“Let food be the medicine and medicine be the food” -
Hippocrates – 400 BC
Who also said “Leave your drug in the chemist’s
pot if you can heal the patient with food”.
Back to the nature and Back to the Future
Back to Nature
Back to the nature to back our future
Naturals
Natural Solutions
“ Doing good is the
essence of Natural
products”
Go Natural
Cowcium for calcium (Milk Calcium)
GSX for Grape seed extract (Proanthocyanidins)
Gamma oryzanol from Rice bran oil (Ferulic acid
and Phyto sterols)
Stevia as a natural sweetener ( Stevioside)
Lycopene from Tomatoes ( antioxidant)
Soy isoflavones from Soya ( Soy milk - SILK)
Herbals are respectable
Nutraceuticals
“Everything old is new again” –A traditional
medicinal point of view
Nutraceuticals are emerging from our old
thoughts from the naturals more scientifically