About us

Biotis® is an exciting new brand from FrieslandCampina Ingredients, which represents a whole new era of ingredient science.

We’re opening up new opportunities for our customers by tapping into our world-leading experience in infant, performance and medical nutrition to create fresh, innovative Health Benefit Solutions that work with the body’s natural processes throughout the human lifecycle.

Heritage & expertise

Biotis® is brought to you by FrieslandCampina Ingredients, part of one of the world’s leading dairy co-operatives, with roots dating back to the 19th century.

We’re pioneers of food science, trusted by customers the world over for our class-leading expertise in Early Life Nutrition, Performance Nutrition solutions for athletes, and Medical Nutrition.

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

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.

Listening, learning, leading

Biotis® works closely with food manufacturers, nutritionists and health scientists to develop sophisticated new products to help people lead healthy, fulfilling lives. But most importantly, we keep fully in tune with what consumers want by using a wide range of research techniques.

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.

Partnerships

We work closely with specialist universities and scientific centres, as well as influential associations like the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP).

   

And, of course, we collaborate directly with our customers, connecting them with research partners and third-party manufacturers, advising them all the way from concept to prototype to full product launch – total solutions.

Sustainable working

For over 20 years, we’ve been leading the field in sustainability through monitoring, control and transparency.

We are committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout the full value chain. In 2018, our farmers cut their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 5%, more than any of our dairy competitors.

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

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

FrieslandCampina Ingredients has a major, state-of-the-art research and innovation centre based in Wageningen in the Netherlands (NL), with test labs and kitchens in all regions of the world. Our NL facilities include a full pilot plant; a sensory department; and a dedicated team of nutritionists. We work closely with leading universities, research centres and consortia all over the world on clinical trials and R&D programmes.

We’re proud that our GOS (galacto-oligosaccharide) prebiotics are the most researched in the world.

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.

Our benefits

Biotis Gut health

Ingredients that help support a healthy gut microbiome and a healthy digestive system.

Biotis Brain health

From sleep and mood enhancement, to improving mental focus, clarity and agility, to healthy ageing and resilience, Biotis® Brain health offers a spectrum of solutions.

Biotis Immune health

Our nutritional solutions provide high-quality bioactive protein and prebiotics. These may have anti-microbial and anti-viral effects, as well as modulating immune cell function and enhancing intestinal barrier function.

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