Health ingredients (Hi) Europe & Natural ingredients (Ni) provides a complete overview of the nutrition and wellness industries. International leaders in nutritional food and beverage innovation meet biennially to share and showcase their latest solutions, and network.
Hi Europe highlights ingredients and solutions for food and drink formulation and reformulation, dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, organics, packaging and processing, and more, for a fully integrated view of the industry.
Over three days, the Hi Europe modular conference will address the biggest challenges and hottest trends in the food industry over 18 highly focused modules.
Discover the latest innovations
Join a guided tour led by the experts at Nutrimarketing on one of many themes. Meet the exhibitors that are responding to the latest trends in health and nutrition through innovation, and hear from the companies themselves about their new products. Learn about the different applications to see how they could benefit you and your business.
Sports nutrition tour
Consumers are becoming more interested in sport and physical activity as a way to improve their health and lifestyle. Sport nutrition includes products and drinks that prepare the body, enhance performance or help to recover after an intense training session. This tour will focus on ingredients for muscle growth, joints, bones or heart health, but also ingredients for hydration or long-lasting energy.
Life stages
The 1,000 days between a woman’s pregnancy and her child’s second birthday has a huge impact on its health later on in life. A lot of scientific studies have pointed out the importance of nutrition early in life to enjoy healthier ageing. At the other end of the spectrum, the ageing population are focused on staying active for longer and the food industry is developing products to meet this need. The life stages tour will focus on new ingredients for nutrition during pregnancy (in-utero nutrition) and infant nutrition, right through to products for healthy ageing.
Plant ingredients: greens are the new black
Superfoods, superfruits, forgotten vegetables, pulses, ancient grains and algae are just a few of the ingredients
and foods benefitting from the green-food trend. This tour will showcase the latest innovation and product development, and give visitors inspiration on how they can expand their portfolios.
With increasing health and sustainability concerns around animal-based products, an increasing number of consumers are seeking viable plant-based alternatives for meat and dairy products. As the global meat-substitute market is estimated to grow by 6.4% CAGR between 2015 and 2020, and the global dairy-alternative market is expected to grow by 15.5% each year until 2020, it is no wonder that the industry is increasingly taking note of this global and lucrative trend.
Gut health
Known as our ‘second brain’, our gut is the centre of our digestive and immune systems. This tour will focus on digestive heath with popular ingredients such as probiotics, prebiotics, fibres and digestive enzymes, but also immune health with ingredients that enhance our natural defences (vitamins, minerals or plants).
Country pavilions
As a truly international event, Hi Europe & Ni offers visitors pavilions from all over the world. Explore country pavilions on the show floor, showcasing a huge international base of suppliers including the US, Canada, France, Switzerland, Kyrgyzstan and Tunisia, Finland, China, Peru, Belgium, the Netherlands, Nepal (Import Promotion Desk) and Malaysia.
More on offer
Conscious nutrition nowadays is a huge trend in the US, Europe and especially in Germany. Consumers are increasingly conscious of what they eat, and are looking for healthy, natural and functional foods, making it impossible to imagine German supermarkets without terms like ‘free from’, ‘made with natural ingredients’ or ‘vegan’, for example. In addition to expressing a personal lifestyle, foods offer solutions for common diseases such as diabetes, obesity, food intolerances and malnutrition later in life. Also, societal problems such as large-scale livestock farming can be reduced with the consumption of meat-substitute products.
UBM, the world’s largest event organiser of food ingredients shows, has announced that it will be hosting the Health & Nutrition Week in Frankfurt from 28 November to 2 December with the support of Messe Frankfurt. This week-long festival will feature a series of activities such as 465-plus of exhibition, meetings, lectures, panel discussions and other events, and will bring together the global health and nutrition community including world-leading experts.
Topics of the Health and Nutrition Week 2016 include:
- health, nutrition and wellness
- organic products
- clean label and food labelling
- food science, research and development
- food safety and regulatory affairs
- food production and retail sales
- sports nutrition and science
- technology, and the future of the health and food industry
- food and finance, ‘agri-banking’.
“Health & Nutrition Week is a fantastic example of our mission to provide visitors and exhibitors with real value,” says Richard Joyce of UBM. “[It] will be a real highlight in the calendar of all health and nutrition professionals worldwide. With inspiration, information and networking outside of the normal event format, this festival will be a unique display for the future of nutrition.
Health & Nutrition Week begins on Monday 2 November with a pair of one-day conferences on ‘The Future of Nutrition’ organised by UBM and ‘Innovation and Opportunity in Sports Nutrition’ organised by the nutrition industry’s leading news media, NutraIngredients.com.
“We are delighted to help UBM kick-start Health & Nutrition Week, and give the industry an opportunity to learn and engage on the latest opportunities in the fast-growing sports-nutrition category,” says Graham Twyford, brand director at NutraIngredients.com. “Our diverse panel of expert speakers will make for an informative and lively conference with plenty of networking opportunities. Our conference associate ESSNA [European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance] will also add significant regulatory insight to proceedings.”
Grant Westbrook, global marketing director at Mintel, adds: “We’re excited about being UBM’s Market Intelligence partner for Health & Nutrition Week. We look forward to discussing many of the top trends impacting this important area.”
