Supporting science

The NutriLeads team brings a diverse range of cross-disciplinary experience. The team is driven by a shared goal to develop large-scale food technologies that cost-effectively deliver scientifically substantiated, natural, innovative health ingredients to address top consumer health demands.

Dietary chicory rhamnogalacturonan-I modulates gut microbiota and immune responses in healthy adults (Kerezoudi et al, 2026), Microbiome Research Reports

Temporal Nasal Epithelial Gene Expression Patterns in Healthy Individuals Infected With Rhinovirus-16, and Its Modulation by Carrot Rhamnogalacturonan-I, (Mol et al, 2026) - Journal of Medical Virology

Carrot Rhamnogalacturonan-I Supplementation Shapes Gut Microbiota and Immune Responses: A Randomised Trial in Healthy Adults (Kerezoudi, et al 2025) - Microorganisms

cRG-I – microbial metabolites and health (Mckay, et al 2024) - Agro FOOD Industry Hi-Tech

Effects of cRG-I Prebiotic Treatment on Gut Microbiota Composition and Metabolic Activity in Dogs In Vitro (McKay, et al 2025) - Microorganisms

Safety of rhamnogalacturonan-I enriched carrot fibre (cRG-I) asa novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283

Carrot-Derived Rhamnogalacturonan-I Consistently Increases the Microbial Production of Health-Promoting Indole-3-Propionic Acid Ex Vivo (Mercenier, et al 2024) - Metabolites

Associating structural characteristics to immunomodulating properties of carrot rhamnogalacturonan-I fractions (Desai, et al 2024) - Carbohydrate Polymers

cRG-I the precision prebiotic (Mckay, et al 2024) - Agro FOOD Industry Hi-Tech

The impact of daily supplementation with rhamnogalacturonan-I on the gut microbiota in healthy adults: A randomized controlled trial (Jian et al., 2024) - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Structure dependent fermentation kinetics of dietary carrot rhamnogalacturonan-I in an in vitro gut model (Desai, et al 2024) - Food Hydrocolloids

Carrot RG-I Reduces Interindividual Differences between 24 Adults through Consistent Effects on Gut Microbiota Composition and Function Ex Vivo. (Van den Abbeele, et al 2023) - Nutrients

Effects of Dietary Supplementation with Carrot-Derived Rhamnogalacturonan-I (cRG-I) on Accelerated Protective Immune Responses and Quality of Life in Healthy Volunteers Challenged with Rhinovirus in a Randomized Trial (Mckay et al, 2022) - Nutrients

Nutrition and immunomodulation – Focus on the dietary fiber RG-I Rhamnogalacturonan-I trains the immune system and accelarates immune responses. (McKay, et al 2022) - Agro FOOD Industry Hi-Tech

Ingestion, Immunity and Infection: Nutrition and Viral Respiratory Tract Infections (Govers et al., 2022) - Frontiers in Immunology

Dietary Intake of Carrot-Derived RG-I Accelerates and Augments the Innate Immune and Anti-Viral Interferon Response to Rhinovirus Infection and Reduces Duration and Severity of Symptoms in Humans in a Randomized Trial (Lutter et al, 2021) - Nutrients

Consistent Prebiotic Effects of Carrot RG-I on the Gut Microbiota of Four Human Adult Donors in the SHIME® Model despite Baseline Individual Variability (van den Abbeele et al. 2021) - Microorganisms

Development of an affordable, sustainable and efficacious plant-based immunomodulatory food ingredient based on bell pepper or carrot RG-I pectic polysaccharides (McKay et al., 2021) - Nutrients

cRG-I selectively modulates human gut microbiota while promoting gut barrier integrity (van den Abbeele et al., 2020) - Nutrients

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