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ingredients<br />

Latest developments from<br />

DuPont Nutrition and Health<br />

Providing enough healthy food for people everywhere is a challenge. The mission of the DuPont<br />

Nutrition & Health business is to provide solutions that increase food production while lowering<br />

costs and promoting good health by lessening lifestyle diseases. DuPont Nutrition & Health is a<br />

premier specialty food ingredient and food safety leader. Combining our knowledge and expertise<br />

with a broad, relevant portfolio of products, services and solutions, the business delivers<br />

unparalleled food and nutrition science to customers around the world. Below are some of our<br />

latest innovations.<br />

The probiotic and<br />

synbiotic treatment<br />

groups both<br />

demonstrated reduced<br />

energy intake during<br />

the trial and reduced<br />

waist circumference<br />

Testing probiotics and fibre for<br />

control of body fat mass in<br />

overweight adults<br />

A new study published in<br />

EBioMedicine found that<br />

Bifidobacterium animalis ssp. lactis<br />

420 alone or in combination with<br />

the prebiotic fiber Litesse ® Ultra<br />

polydextrose reduced body fat<br />

mass, trunk fat mass, waist<br />

circumference and energy intake<br />

compared to placebo in those<br />

participants who adhered to the<br />

study protocol over the six-month<br />

intervention. The study, titled<br />

‘Probiotic alone and in combination<br />

with a fiber controls body fat mass<br />

associated with serum zonulin in<br />

overweight and obese adults –<br />

randomised controlled trial’, was<br />

conducted in a population of 225<br />

healthy adults.<br />

The double-blind, randomised,<br />

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