The sports nutrition market has been steadily rising and new formulas need to be created to stand out. To respond to the needs of nutraceutical professionals for development issues, Natural Origins has set up Botanical Studio®. This applications laboratory accompanies you in the sourcing, producing custom-made ingredients and in creating finished product concepts.

The goal of this article is to provide you with a concrete example of a sports nutrition finished product created by Botanical Studio® and to illustrate our field of expertise. One of the examples of our latest developments is ULTRAMEL, an exertion gel for athletes.

Specifications

The objective of this project was to formulate a gel to be used to optimise the performance of athletes. An innovative product, synonymous with pain free well-being and progression.

As consumers today are demanding, professionals must adapt and propose balanced products: practical, healthy and flavourful.

The specifications are as follows:

• A natural 100% organic product
• Appropriate design
• Appealing taste
• Effective and active high nutritional value
• Product consumed during physical exertion (easily and quickly consumed), portable format

Project workflow

As the project manager, our team outfits the supply chain, coordinates the different stages and each department successively takes over in view of creating the project you have imagined.

In the case of our ULTRAMEL exertion gel, our sourcing team has sought quality, standardised and organic raw materials.

Our ingredients developers then created an easily integrated active in the desired format for the finished product. Our ingredient called Exten(d) is derived from an exclusive mixture of organic plant powders and has been the subject of clinical trials* to prove its effectiveness.

Our product formulators designed an exertion gel in a 30g portable « tube », small, light and active high nutritional density value format.

Our sales and marketing team has finalised the product design to meet  market expectations (labeling, brochures and all other visuals)

Every step has obviously been checked by our quality and regulatory team in order to ensure quality and compliance prior to putting the product on the market.

ULTRAMEL, an innovative and effective product

The outcome has been successful as this project has given rise to a trendy « tube » format, 100% natural and organic product with a proven effective principle active*.

ULTRAMEL is 100% natural, made from an exclusive mixture of plant powders and acacia honey. All the ingredients are organic, minimally processed, standardised and residual solvent  and additive and admixture free.

Every dose of 30g of ULTRAMEL provides enough sugar for 30 minutes of physical effort and supplies 2g of our active Exten(d), for our daily needs to ensure its effectiveness for sports performances*.

Based on its clinically tested Exten(d) active*, ULTRAMEL optimises racing performance and technique by reducing knee joint discomfort related to inflammation.

Developing a new sports nutrition product takes time and resources. Our objective is to accompany you by making available our expertise, our knowledge of raw materials and formulations in view of helping you to QUICKLY develop a product suited to your needs.

Our experts at Botanical Studio® are available to help you to develop your sports nutrition product.

*randomised clinical studies: double blind, highlighting the significant difference between the placebo and the actives.