Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc.

Gastrointestinal Nutrition Solutions from Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition

Formulation Expertise in GI Health

Contact the GI Nutrition Experts at Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition

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Meeting the Demand for Formulation Expertise

When their GI function is compromised, patients face significant challenges absorbing the essential nutrients required to maintain muscle mass, support tissue repair, and recover effectively. Achieving optimal health and quality of life for individuals with specialized dietary needs, such as GI issues, food allergies, complex medical conditions, and inherited metabolic disorders, requires highly customized nutritional strategies that conventional foods and beverages cannot provide alone.

Developing specialized solutions requires deep expertise in medical nutrition, ingredient science, formulation, and regulatory requirements. Healthcare providers, caregivers, and patients depend on clinically appropriate nutrition products that are safe, palatable, nutritionally complete, and designed to support long-term compliance.

For formulators and manufacturers, developing effective GI nutrition products comes with many challenges. It is essential that formulations fulfill nutritional requirements while remaining easily digestible, well-tolerated, and stable across both processing stages and shelf life.

As an ingredient provider, Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition collaborates with formulators to help meet these critical product goals by providing evidence-based ingredient solutions and formulation expertise.

Addressing Your Most Important Considerations for Gastrointestinal Nutrition

Through Cambrooke Therapeutics and Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition, we bring together decades of expertise in medical nutrition and a commitment to scientific innovation to support people with specialized dietary needs. By developing evidence-based nutrition solutions for a wide range of conditions, we help patients achieve better health outcomes while enhancing their quality of life. Utilizing our expertise in “AminoScience,” we address formulators’ most pressing challenges.

Ingredient Compatibility

Helping amino acids integrate effectively with protein systems, carbohydrates, lipids, fibers, and micronutrients while supporting nutritional goals and maintaining formulation stability and functionality.

Processing Performance

Assessing how ingredients perform during manufacturing processes to ensure heat stability, solubility, shelf-life stability, and scalability for consistent production.

Sensory Performance

Optimizing taste, mouthfeel, and flavor profiles to improve patient compliance and boost acceptance of GI nutrition products.

Gastrointestinal Nutrition Ingredient Portfolio from Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition

ENU Nutritional Shakes

High-protein oral nutritional shakes that help support individuals at risk of malnutrition or unintended weight loss.

Essential Care Jr.™

Amino acid-based pediatric formula for children with severe protein allergies and gastrointestinal conditions.

EquaCare Jr.

Amino acid-based pediatric formula designed to support children with severe protein allergies and GI disorders.

Homactin™ AA Plus Powder 15

Specialized amino acid medical food for the dietary management of Homocystinuria (HCU).

Isovactin™ AA Plus Powder 15

Specialized amino acid medical food for the dietary management of Isovaleric Acidemia (IVA).

Phenactin™ AA Plus Berry

Specialized amino acid medical food for the dietary management of Phenylketonuria (PKU).

Promactin™ AA Plus Berry

Specialized amino acid medical food for the dietary management of Methylmalonic Acidemia (MMA) and Propionic Acidemia (PA).

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Applications and Use Cases

Our “AminoScience” ingredients are designed to address a range of GI health and nutritional formulation challenges:

  • Enteral Nutrition: Tube feeding formulations, digestibility considerations, and ingredient compatibility.
  • Oral Nutritional Supplements: High-protein beverages, ready-to-drink products, powders, and medical foods.
  • Clinical Nutrition Products: Hospital nutrition, post-surgical nutrition, recovery formulations, and specialized nutritional support.
  • Functional Nutrition Products: GI wellness products, digestive health beverages, and specialized protein products.

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