ILSI Europe contributes to better health by advancing scientific understanding of nutrition and its impact across life stages. Through collaborative research and expert-driven initiatives, we address key challenges and opportunities like healthy ageing, personalized nutrition, or early-life nutrition.
Ongoing Nutrition Task Forces
Dietary Carbohydrates Task Force
The Task Force focuses on understanding the link between carbohydrates and public health, particularly regarding glycaemic control and the role of dietary fibres. To do so, identifying the types and quantities of carbohydrates that should be consumed to optimise health is key.
Early Nutrition and Long-Term Health Task Force
The Task Force aims at providing scientific evidence to support guidelines for maternal and infant nutrition to ensure life-time optimal health. It also identifies risk factors for obesity and other health consequences at the earliest stages of life.
Healthy Ageing Task Force
The primary objectives of this task force are to provide an updated understanding of the mechanisms underpinning the ageing process and to explore environmentally sustainable and nutritional strategies to counter age-related diseases.
Prebiotics Task Force
A prebiotic is a food ingredient that selectively stimulates growth and/or the activity of microbial species inhabiting the host, which may bring about health benefits. A better understanding of mechanisms of prebiotics is still needed. The task force aims at providing mechanistic insights linking prebiotics to individual health benefits.
Probiotics Task Force
Consumers, the scientific community, regulators and the food and dietary supplement industry show increasing interest in probiotics and their health benefits. The attention of the task force is thus focused on the understanding of the role of probiotics in health and disease, their mechanisms of action while increasing awareness of their direct/indirect benefits on health.
Vitamin K2 Task Force
Vitamin K2, a lesser-known but crucial nutrient, plays a vital role in bone and cardiovascular health, among other functions. Despite its significance, awareness and understanding of Vitamin K2 remain relatively low. The formation of this Task Force represents a significant step towards bridging this gap. Its primary objective is to critically review the scientific evidence supporting the various health benefits attributed to vitamin K2. Additionally, the Task Force aims to identify and evaluate potential biomarkers for monitoring vitamin K2 status, as well as conduct a comprehensive nutrition economic study to determine the potential healthcare cost savings for Europe associated with vitamin K2 supplementation.