Meet Nuritas, the bitoech using AI to identify the next generation of intelligent ingredients

As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Dr. Andy Franklyn-Miller, Chief Medical and Innovation Officer at Nuritas about intelligent ingredients, explaining peptides and proving an AI model in life science.

There is a lack of innovation within ingredients in food, many have been discovered decades ago, mostly with cost, taste and texture in mind. However as the modern global population becomes more aware of the effects of diet on health in both longevity and illness prevention and also of the environmental impact food production has, they begin to look for both innovation in protecting the environment but also in what nutrition can provide for them.

In Pharmaceutical discovery, the focus is on innovation with long timelines, patents and high costs, but in food and nutrition the costs of novel discovery are rarely balanced and as such the lack of new ingredients is apparent with a focus on small iterations are seen rather than advances.

When founding Nuritas, Dr. Nora Khaldi’s goal was to unlocking a new era of discovery using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the next generation of intelligent ingredients from plant-based source to identify ingredients which can positively affect the health of billions, using peptides, cell signalling molecules to complement and unlock benefits within food not yet realised.