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Natraceutical group is composed of different natural ingredients businesses, including Swiss fruit and vegetable powders firm Obipektin, colours and yeast company Overseal and the Spanish healthy and functional ingredients Natraceutical.
Natraceutical is a multinational group whose organisational structure encompasses the activities of a global commercial network.
NATRACEUTICAL: Natraceutical has specialised in the research and development of nutraceuticals and healthy ingredients for sixty years. Natraceutical uses only natural ingredients and manufactures natural products for formulation into nutraceuticals and functional foods - aimed at preventing disease and improving quality of life.
At Natraceutical we transform ideas into well-being realities, providing concrete solutions to our clients' needs and taking responsibility for every phase of the manufacturing process.
Product Line: Healthy Cocoa Derivatives, Mediterranean diet ingredients, Natural Antioxidants, Natural extracts, Contract Research and Development, Clinical validation services
OVERSEAL: Overseal Natural Ingredients Ltd are leading manufacturers and suppliers of natural ingredients to the food, beverage, nutraceutical and supplement industries. Our product portfolio consists of naturally derived colours, colouring foodstuffs, inactive dried yeast, Talin® (Thaumatin), a multi functional ingredient which offers flavour enhancement, sweetness and bitterness masking benefits and natural Hinotes® FTNF top-note flavour extracts.
Product Line: Natural colours, inactive dried yeast, Flavour enhancement, ingredients (Talin®), top-note flavour extracts
OBIPEKTIN: Swiss-based food company producing the world's finest quality fruit and vegetable powders (including high quality tomato powders) and pectins.
Product Line: Fruit Powders, Vegetable Powders, Pectins
07-Dec-2007 - In an ongoing legal battle over polyphenol enriched cocoa extracts, Natraceutical Group has filed counterclaims alleging Mars' patents are invalid and unenforceable.
05-Sep-2007 - Mars has announced it is adding more patents to its suit against Natraceutical so as to both strengthen its case and protect cocoa flavanol technology.
28-Aug-2007 - Natraceutical Group said it has been notified that food giant Mars has withdrawn its request for a preliminary injunction filed against the Spanish ingredient maker over the US sale of its CocaonOX products.
03-May-2007 - Scientists in Spain are reporting development of a new process to make cocoa powder with eight times the levels of some flavonoids linked to chocolate's beneficial effects.
02-Aug-2006 - Natraceutical Group is purchasing French supplement maker Laboratoires Forté Pharma - a move that propels it into the lucrative finished production section and that is expected to boost its turnover by more than 50 per cent.
31-Mar-2006 - Spain's Natraceutical Group has developed a new alkalization process to make its soluble cocoa fiber suitable for use in functional milk products, an area it has identified as offering strong opportunities in the functional sector.
27-Feb-2006 - Spanish biotech firm Natraceutical's acquisition of Obipektin and Overseal has helped the company double its income from €26m in 2004 to €53m in 2005.