Human nutrition for a natural and healthy lifestyle
Food products should enhance performance by lowering sugar and fat, boosting dietary fiber, and offering dairy alternatives without sacrificing taste. They must also cater to the fast-paced lifestyle of today’s consumers, who seek convenient and easy-to-prepare options while expecting diverse nutritional benefits.

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Today’s Nutrition benefits
Consumers increasingly expect food to support their overall wellbeing, from better digestion and immunity to steady, lasting energy, while manufacturers face rising demands for reduced sugar, cleaner labels and improved nutritional profiles without sacrificing taste or texture. This shift creates both pressure and opportunity, making functional, science-backed ingredients essential for brands that want to meet modern expectations and stay competitive.
More consumers now see how their food choices impact both their energy and overall wellbeing.
Strengthen your immune system with prebiotic chicory fibres.
For many years, experts have promoted the importance of a fiber-rich diet and taking care of gut health.
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From beverages to baby food, from livestock to humans and even pharma applications. We have you covered.
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Our ingredients
How Beneo helps you innovate in nutrition with our ingredients
We focus on a defined product portfolio. This enables us to offer you a comprehensive and relevant range of functional ingredients. That way, we can guarantee superior quality and make our products competitive in every sense.
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Functional Fibres
Many consumers actively ask for convenient food and drinks including dietary fibres.
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Functional Carbohydrates
Today’s consumers expect food to contribute to their general fitness. The qualities of BENEO’s functional carbohydrates make them highly suitable in support of weight and energy management.
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Specialty Rice Ingredients
BENEO is an expert in researching and transforming rice varieties into highly digestible protein.
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Functional Proteins
Demand for plant protein is strongly rising, a tendency driven by an increased interest in proteins thanks to their nutritional profile.
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Meatless®
Meatless® ingredients are sustainable by design, with the production processes achieving a low carbon footprint.
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How BENEO answers today´s human nutrition challenges
BENEO is a global leader in ingredient research. All our ingredients are backed by solid scientific evidence, and we continuously invest in research and development to support better nutrition worldwide.
Our ingredients offer two key advantages:
- Nutritional & sensory benefits: they help make final products healthier, tastier or improve texture.
- Technical benefits: they can extend shelf life, improve stability and support efficient product formulation
But we offer much more than ingredients alone.
Our customers also benefit from BENEO’s broad expertise:
- Market and consumer insights
- Deep knowledge of physiology and nutrition science
- Guidance on legislation and regulatory topics
- Support with application and formulation challenges
This combination of science, guidance and hands-on know-how helps you create products that meet today’s trends and tomorrow’s expectations.
In short: BENEO is your global partner in better nutrition and health, with local experts available worldwide to support you wherever you are.
Nature continues to inspire us, which is why we’re always exploring new ways to make nutrition better and healthier.
All our advanced nutrients come from natural sources such as chicory root, sugar beet, rice and wheat.
- This approach has led to successful ingredients like inulin, oligofructose, isomalt, Palatinose™, rice starches, rice flours and mor
- All part of our key product groups in functional fibres and carbohydrates, specialty rice ingredients and functional proteins
- By combining these ingredients with our interdisciplinary insights, we develop smart food concepts that meet today’s market needs and anticipate tomorrow’s trends
In short: BENEO is your global partner in better nutrition and health, with local experts available worldwide to support you wherever you are.
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