ILSI Europe Report Series. 2009:1-20.
Traditionally, nutrition research has dealt with providing nutrients to nourish populations. Nowadays, it focuses on understanding and improving health of individuals through diet. Modern molecular nutritional research is aiming at health promotion and disease prevention and at performance improvement.
Many bioactive food ingredients are claimed to either reduce disease risk factors or to improve life quality by optimising and maintaining body functions. These claims have to be based on a scientific substantiation. New technologies are now used in nutrition research such as one giving access to holistic discovery of efficacy biomarkers namely genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics. Moreover, imaging technologies are also routinely used for clinical diagnostics and it is conceivable to use them to demonstrate efficacy of food ingredients.
The ILSI Europe Emerging Technologies for Efficacy Demonstration Task Force organised a workshop to summarise the advancements of these new technologies and to discuss their roles in food product development and claim substantiation.
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