Unlocking nature’s secrets? How Nuritas harnesses AI to uncover hidden health-boosting ingredients

Biotech company Nuritas speeds up ingredient discovery in nutrition through AI, using techniques from the pharmaceutical industry where innovation and investment rates are much higher. Through its bioactive peptide finder, Magnifier NπΦ, the company can boast a clinical trial success rate of 80%.

Development of an ingredient goes through three phases, from discovery to preclinical biology testing and clinical trials.

“People focus on AI being something that it’s not – it’s math. It’s not a decision-making tool on its own. It needs scientific rigor and input to make it valid,” Dr. Andrew Franklyn-Miller, chief medical and innovation officer at Nuritas, tells NutritionInsight.

He adds that in nutrition, many ingredients used are hundreds of years old.

“Partly because the discovery process is so long and success rates are so low, investment in those areas is pretty patchy and certainly risky. Also, often with ingredients, the patentability of that ingredient doesn’t balance against the potential cost.”

The company offers two main products identified through its AI platform, PeptiStrong for muscle health and PeptiYouth with anti-aging properties.