|
|
|
You can get e-magazine links on WhatsApp. Click here
|
|
|
|
|
|
Botanical composition supports blood sugar balance in a chocolate delight
|
|
Thursday, 16 November, 2023, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
Food-tech start-up SolvEat brings research-supported botanical compositions to the functional foods space. The bioactive solution is designed to help maintain healthy blood sugar levels when used as part of a regular diet. It collaborated with a chocolate company to develop a chocolate bar prototype as a first proof of concept. It will introduce the new composition at Fi Europe in Frankfurt, booth no. 3.0L151.
The incentive for creating a functional chocolate was a prediabetes diagnosis received by one of the founders, Udi Peretz, CEO of SolvEat while managing herbal biotech company. Colleagues suggested an herbal approach that was effective. However, Peretz found the herbs to be incredibly bitter and needing a significant amount of effort to prepare.
The patent-pending herbal solution is a composition of eight different herbs, including golden thread (Coptis chinensis), Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa), and Hawthorn Berries (Crataegus pinnatifida) which work together to support balanced blood sugar levels.
Tal Naveh, SolvEat co-founder and director of Herbal Medicine, said, “Our botanical formula takes inspiration from the wisdom of various schools of traditional herbal medicines emanating from the East and West. We merge them into one all-encompassing bio active composition that is supported by modern science. The botanical extracts in our solution work synergistically to balance blood sugar levels through supporting various organs in the body and that’s why each is essential to the efficacy of the formula.”
The formula was developed by the company’s multidisciplinary R&D team, which includes herbal medicine specialist Tal Naveh, and Orna Levin, MD, a clinical expert specializing in herbal product development. The two worked with leading Chinese medicine and herbal experts, Professor Xia Long and Professor He Yuxin.
Zacki Nudelman, co-founder, CBO and Scientific Affairs officer of SolvEat, said, “Several herbal sets were screened using a pharmacological model to obtain the optimal composition. With the support of leading academics in the fields of natural ingredients we used the most refined scientific methods and instrumentation to identify the dominant bioactive compounds in each botanical extract, as well as their synergism of action as one formula.”
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|