Crests of rooster and articular health

The Barcelonan company Bioibérica will commercialise under the mark Mobilee an extract of crests of rooster, that will be able to incorporate to dairy products of daily consumption like the milk, the yoghourt or the cool cheese. It treats of a world-wide innovation put that it is the first beneficial ingredient to preserve the health of the articulations. Besides, as they explain to Interempresas Daniel Martínez, director of R&D of the area of Human Health of Bioibérica, and Ignasi Papell, Cluster Manager of the Innovative Business Association of Nutrition and Health (Ains), is the first Novel Food approved in Spain.

The European Commission finishes to authorise the commercialisation of the extract of crest of rooster like new alimentary ingredient. The request so that it approved was requested by Bioibérica inside his strategy to develop a functional ingredient for the articular health. As they explain from the own company, this permission is the positive culmination of an administrative process of almost three years, that began in February of 2011 and that achieved the definite backrest in September of the 2013, when obtaining the favourable opinion of the European Authority of Alimentary hygiene. In December of 2013, published the final decision of the Commission in the Official Bulletin of the European Union.

The approval by part of the European Commission has like aim guarantee the hygiene of the new ingredient. For this requires a battery of studies in animal models and in humans to show that the consumption of the ingredient does not generate any risk for the health of the consumer.

Simultaneously, a signpost of independent experts Americans determined also that it is sure incorporate the extract of crest of rooster to a wide range of foods and drunk and awarded him the status of Gras (Generally Recognized ace Safe).

The studies that have realizar show that the consumption of the extract of crests of rooster improves the mobility of people with articular annoyances. As it explains Daniel Martínez, director of R&D of the area of Human Health of Bioibérica, like pharmaceutical company, Bioibérica already contributes solutions for the patients with artrosis, but did not exist any destined product to the people that do not have artrosis but that suffer some type of restriction of movement that reduces them the quality of life. “The approval of the extract of crests of rooster culminates a project of investigation that gestó does more than five years and in which they have collaborated universities and centres of investigation so much national like international”, aims.

The consumer has today to his scope dairy foods enriched with diverse healthy ingredients like the omega 3, the calcium or the fitoesteroles vegetal. However, it does not exist any destined food to take care the health of the articulations. The introduction of the extract of crests in a yoghourt pretends to facilitate the access of the product to the consumer, because it treats of a food of common use that historically has been used like vehicle of healthy ingredients.

But, will perceive his presence? According to the experts, no; no from a point of view organoléptico, since the extract does not contribute neither flavour, neither aroma neither colour to the final product. “The only that will perceive will be the improvements in the mobility of the people that consummate it of form continued”, argue.

The company will distribute the ingredient to alimentary companies potentially interested in incorporating in his dairy products the extract. As it explains Martínez, from five years ago, Bioibérica has realizar studies of efficiency, stability, hygiene and toxicity with the extract of crest of rich —rooster in acid hialurónico—, in collaboration with several universities, hospitals and centres of Spanish and international investigation, between them the Technological Centre of Nutrition and Health, the University Rovira i Virgili and the Hospital Sant Joan of Reus, all linked to the Clúster of Nutrition and Health Ains.

Safe and stable

In Reus carried out a study of random nutritional intervention, double blind, controlled with placebo, to value the efficiency and the hygiene of a yoghourt desnatado suplementado with Mobilee compared with a yoghourt desnatado no suplementado, on the articular function, evolution ecográfica and quality of life of adults with gonalgia of low intensity. They participated 80 volunteers from among 20 and 70 years of age, and the results of the study formed part of the scientific evidence presented by the company in the application of his Novel Food. The results, sustains Papell, determine that it is a safe and stable product, that no alternating neither the smell neither the flavour of the food to the cual incorporates and that it can be beneficial to preserve the health of the articulations.

To the hour to value his potential market, calculates that in Europe there is more than 15 million people from among 40 and 65 years of age, active, that suffer articular pains; in United States, the calculations arrive to the 19 million people that could benefit of products that contain this ingredient.

This collaboration between companies and centres of knowledge for innovar in new products is a good example of the dynamics that promote inside the clústeres like Ains, the Clúster of Nutrition and Health. “It looks for promote and contribute to the competitiveness and to the innovation of the sector agroalimentario Spanish in the field of the functional foods, and increase the competitiveness through strategies that generate flows of knowledge and innovation”, explains Ignasi Papell, Cluster Manager of Ains.