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Introducing Brightseed Bio Gut Fiber, the only upcycled hemp fiber for functional food and beverages with two unique bioactives to support gut health. Emerging preclinical research demonstrates that NCT & NFT show promise to support healthy gut barrier function. Bio Gut Fiber helps elevate functional foods and beverages delivering consumers an efficient and unique source of dietary fiber and support for gut health benefits, powered by bioactives.
Bio Gut Fiber is an ingredient that is sold to product manufacturers and is not available for personal use. If you are a manufacturer and interested in learning more, please contact us below.
*Pre-clinical data from human primary intestinal epithelial cells demonstrates improvement in impaired gut barrier function.
Going Beyond Gut Regularity
Two Novel Bioactives
Upcycled Certified Whole Food Ingredient
Effective Fiber Source
Manitoba Harvest, the global leader in hemp foods, partnered with Brightseed to revolutionize the functional fiber market. Brightseed® Bio Gut Fiber is one of the key ingredients in Manitoba Harvest’s new product – find it at your local Whole Foods Market and online at Manitoba Harvest.
From snack and granola bars to nutrition bars, Bio Gut Fiber adds fiber content & gut health benefits without causing bar dry out.
Bio Gut Fiber is easily incorporated into clusters, granolas, and extruded cereals.
Offering excellent extrudability – Bio Gut Fiber can replace starch in extruded applications and maintain crunch and texture.
Bio Gut Fiber is heat stable and does not dry the finished application during baking.
Bio Gut Fiber can optimize the nutritional profile of ready-to-mix-beverages and supplements with added fiber content.
Of consumers state gut health is important.
Of Americans don’t meet the daily fiber intake recommendation.
Of consumers are interested in increasing their intake of bioactives.
The Power of Bioactives
We identified gut health as a health benefit with strong consumer need and pointed Forager® to nature to find new solutions, first defining HNF4⍺ as target receptor for gut health.
Forager identified NCT & NFT as effective in acting upon HNF4⍺ for gut permeability and gut barrier function.
We surveyed hundreds of plant sources and identified hemp hulls as the most abundant source of NCT & NFT, along with their significant source of insoluble dietary fiber.
Next, we analyzed more than 20 common fibers and none were found to have detectable amounts of NCT & NFT.
We confirmed the health effect of NCT & NFT on gut barrier through preclinical studies and currently fielding human clinicals to further validate the health effect of these bioactives.
