Human Nutrition

As more people recognise the importance of good nutrition for leading healthy and active lives, the demand for ingredients that promote health and well-being continues to grow.
With a long history of developing products for human nutrition, we combine a scientific approach, while harnessing our technical and application expertise to create superior food ingredients and formulations that tackle the current and future challenges of human nutrition.
We believe that the right nutrition, combined with being active at every life stage, is fundamental to a healthier lifestyle and supports the prevention of non-communicable diseases.
Market segments

Infant and maternal nutrition
We offer ingredients with health benefits, based on the most solid scientific foundations. Our human nutrition experts support you from consultation to implementation, letting you react quickly to changes in the market. Our human nutrition labs around the world combine global expert knowledge with a deep understanding of local needs, preferences and habits. We support our customers and partners with technical application service and development as well as tailor-made training in our human nutrition labs.

Medical nutrition
Medical nutrition refers to a group of medical food products used under the supervision of health practitioners for the nutritional management of a condition or disease. Medical nutrition products address a distinct nutritional requirement and provide adequate amounts of nutrients to the specific patient group. Medical nutrition products are available as enteral formulas ingested both orally (e.g., as beverages, foods or supplement-like formats), and via intubation.

Food
We provide a wide portfolio of performance and health ingredients to design food that looks and tastes good and has a pleasant feel as well.

Dietary supplements
Our high-quality health ingredients are based on the most solid scientific foundations, and can be used in a broad range of application forms.

Functional nutrition
Functional nutrition products are a convenient way for consumers to incorporate this healthy extra into their daily nutrition habits. As part of BASF, we have a 150-year tradition of innovation, which, together with our advanced knowledge and expertise in human nutrition, assure our customers get consistently high-quality food ingredients. We offer a wide range of ingredients with health benefits, based on the most solid scientific foundations.

Beverages
We provide a wide range of functional ingredients, colours and filtration aids for the beverage industry – from juices and energy drinks to beer and wine.
Life stages
Find out how some of our health ingredients support the health and nutritional needs of consumers across life stages.
Receiving all the required nutrients during the first stage of life is crucial for physical growth, intellectual development and the prevention of future diseases. In order to promote healthy child development, we provide nutrients for an age-appropriate, tailor-made diet from the prenatal period up to the adolescent years.
Products: Omega-3 Bursts, Omega Oils, Lucarotin Beta-Carotene, Covitol and Dry n-3

We offer ingredients with health benefits, based on the most solid scientific foundations. Our human nutrition experts support you from consultation to implementation, letting you react quickly to changes in the market. Our human nutrition labs around the world combine global expert knowledge with a deep understanding of local needs, preferences and habits. We support our customers and partners with technical application service and development as well as tailor-made training in our human nutrition labs.
Medical nutrition refers to a group of medical food products used under the supervision of health practitioners for the nutritional management of a condition or disease. Medical nutrition products address a distinct nutritional requirement and provide adequate amounts of nutrients to the specific patient group. Medical nutrition products are available as enteral formulas ingested both orally (e.g., as beverages, foods or supplement-like formats), and via intubation.
We provide a wide portfolio of performance and health ingredients to design food that looks and tastes good and has a pleasant feel as well.
Dietary supplements
Our high-quality health ingredients are based on the most solid scientific foundations, and can be used in a broad range of application forms.
Functional nutrition
Functional nutrition products are a convenient way for consumers to incorporate this healthy extra into their daily nutrition habits. As part of BASF, we have a 150-year tradition of innovation, which, together with our advanced knowledge and expertise in human nutrition, assure our customers get consistently high-quality food ingredients. We offer a wide range of ingredients with health benefits, based on the most solid scientific foundations.
Adults often lead a busy life, and, therefore, have a special need to stay fit and healthy. As a provider of nutrients for the growing number of people in the ‘rush hour’ part of life, we offer relevant solutions for formulators, designing supplements for (young) adults, nest-building couples and the 50+ generation.
Products: Vitamin E, Vitamin K1, Xangold Lutein, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B and Vitamin D3

As life expectancies increase, preventing age-related diseases and, thus, staying healthy longer is becoming more and more important. It is our objective to help customers offer products with essential nutrients that can support the elderly in living their lives to the fullest and staying independent as long as possible.
Products: Covitol, Beta-Carotene and Dry n-3

The five human nutrition fitness disciplines
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