Performance Nutrition: we help athletes reach their goals and push themselves further. We pack the most nourishing components into pure, natural protein solutions, while striving for better taste, experience and convenience.

Medical Nutrition: we’re committed to making a difference in the lives of patients and frail people. Dairy’s essential nutrients have an amazing power — backed by science — to support disease management, recovery and quality of life.

Early Life Nutrition: We’re trusted by customers the world over for our class-leading expertise in Early Life Nutrition, where issues such as digestion and immunity are at their most important and most complex. Our carefully balanced infant milk formulas contain most of the essential nutrients needed at this key life stage.

These are all highly regulated areas, which involves stringent compliance to international standards and laws. All our solutions and science have to be fully tried and tested before they are allowed to be marketed.

We’re now bringing all this experience and knowledge together. And applying it to the many exciting new markets that are opening up for effective Health Benefit Solutions throughout the course of life.

We use a wide range of research techniques and data sources to tap into what people are currently thinking about health, diet and nutrition. These include social listening, focus groups, online surveys, consumer testing, quantitative and qualitative market research, customer interviews and consumer trials (both our own and via our partners).

Much of this is ownable data that’s exclusive to us, giving us a nuanced understanding of where the market is now and where it’s heading. This deep insight helps us to develop concepts that answer pressing questions and fit with the lives, needs and desires of consumers.

All of which means we’re in a position to support our customers with everything they need to innovate their products and brands, so they can stay one step ahead in the rapidly growing market for effective functional food and drink.

Sustainable working

At FrieslandCampina Ingredients, we believe in a more sustainable future for the dairy industry. For over 20 years, we’ve been leading the field in sustainability through monitoring, control and transparency. Our cooperative spirit puts us in a great position to partner with others — farmers and customers — creating a better industry for a better world.

We are committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout the full value chain, and lead by example. In fact, we have an excellent track record: our farmers reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by 12% from 2015 to 2020. And we are the only dairy company in the world to provide complete and credible greenhouse gas emissions data.

100% of all the energy used in our production locations comes from renewable sources. We generate our own power too: 3,000 of our member farmers have installed solar panels or compact windmills.

Our milk has a particularly low carbon footprint — 52% lower than the world average and 13% lower than the average for Western Europe.

We’re working steadily towards a sustainable, circular dairy industry. Partnering with FrieslandCampina Ingredients can help your sustainability ambitions and benefit your business.

Science and the future

We work closely with Wageningen University, which is recognised as the world’s top Food & Agriculture University, with key academic staff holding leading scientific chairs in immunology and sustainable food production.

We also partner with NIZO, an important independent Netherlands-based contract research organisation supporting food and health customers. In addition, we conduct significant clinical trials with top universities and noted experts worldwide.

Our GOS prebiotics have been extensively trialled and tested in the context of both Early Life Nutrition and Adult Nutrition, where we’ve thoroughly investigated its potential health benefits, including gut and digestive health, and immunity.

Other areas of research where our accomplished scientists at Wageningen focus are sleep, sports nutrition research, medical nutrition, protein and muscle synthesis. Along with a wide variety of consumer and sensory studies.

16 clinical trials on the effect of FrieslandCampina GOS in adults have been published to date. 14 investigator-initiated trials with FrieslandCampina GOS are currently running in adults.

And 63 clinical trials have been published on the effect of FrieslandCampina GOS in infants/children (either on its own or combined with other prebiotics, such as fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) or Polydextrose (PDX)).

We currently have 17 collaborations on GOS R&D in progress, working together with leading academic organisations, research institutes and research consortia.