A naturall cell protector: SpermidineEvo® wheatgerm concentrate © GoodMills Innovation

Healthy ageing: a topic that is becoming increasingly important for more and more consumers. The population is getting older: 25% of the European population is already over 60 years old, and the trend is rising¹. With a higher life expectancy in general, many people no longer just want to “grow old”. Nowadays it is about healthy ageing, a high quality of life into old age is strived for. Consumers are taking a proactive approach and are more aware than ever of the connection between ageing, health and nutrition. Stimulating autophagy with the right food can be a delicious way contribute to healthy aging.

What is “Healthy Ageing”?

Slowing down the ageing process and thus preserving people’s health and quality of life – that is the goal of Healthy Ageing. In addition to to genetic predisposition, factors that can be influenced by the individual play a role here. Nutrition is one of them. For this reason, using food to stay healthy longer has become a trend in all age segments, from Gen Z to the best agers.²

SpermidineEvo® influences the factors that increase the quality of life. © GoodMills Innovation

Functional Foods & Spermidine

Functional foods, meaning foods that can positively affect health due to specific nutrients, are receiving more and more attention in this context. Spermidine, as a natural cell protector and natural autophagy-promoting polyamine, is one of these nutrients. Hence, spermidine-containing functional foods have also seen a significant increase in new product launches in recent years.³

The autophagy process © GoodMills Innovation

What is the autophagy

The autophagy process is some kind of “cell recycling”. Stimulating this cell regeneration process – e.g. through spermidine in high concentrations – can lead to health-protecting and life-prolonging effects. And: spermidine is the only endogenous substance that has a positive effect on autophagy for SpermidineEvo^® we use wheat germ because it has the highest spermidine concentration of all foods – higher than soybeans, buckwheat or rice.

Wheatgerm has the highest spermidine concentration in foods © AdobeStock

SpermidineEVO^® wheatgerm concentrate

You can use SpermidineEvo^® as the main functional ingredient of hard capsules, tablets, instant powder drinks (sachets), and new nutraceutical applications such as gummy bears and chewing gum. It can also be added as a supplement to muesli bars, protein bars, smoothies, muesli, wheatgerm milk, and bread.
We deliver the wheatgerm concentrate in different forms to suit the final product: as stabilized raw germ for manufacturer extraction, as ground powder, or as micronized powder for better solubility.

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SpermidineEvo^® brochure (en)

Sources

1) https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-projected-reach-98-billion-2050-and-112-billion-2100
2) Innova Health & Nutrition Survey 2021
3) Innova Database New Product Launches 2022