Winter Conference 2025: Satellite symposium and exhibitors

Heights is a leading UK supplement company, with over 40, 000 active subscribers across Europe, holding a 4.7 out of 5-star review rating from over 6,000 customers. Heights focuses on scientifically informed, and research backed supplements targeted at improving gut and brain health across the population. Working in collaboration with leading dietitians, neuroscientists and industry formulation experts, Heights prides itself on the efficacy of their supplements and the robustness of their product development. Employing rigorous scientific standards to a widely unregulated market ensures Heights stands out as a trusted and industry leading nutrition company. To this end, unlike many brands, Heights is not afraid of assessing the efficacy of their supplements, investing heavily in product testing by independent, third-party labs and research groups, publishing the findings in peer-reviewed journals. With a current collaborator list including academics from Kings College London, Newcastle University and University College London. Whilst also providing financial and research support to trusted nutrition groups, including the Nutrition Society, BDA, Food For the Brain and NNEdPro, Heights is dedicated to furthering our understanding of how optimising nutritional status can improve health across the lifecycle. “For better days and more tomorrows”.

Heights is always open to new academic and industry collaborations in the conduct of excellent nutritional science- https://www.yourheights.com/

Cambridge University Press is a not-for-profit publisher that dates from 1534 and is part of the University of Cambridge. Our mission is to unlock people's potential with the best learning and research solutions by combining state-of-the-art content with the highest standards of scholarship, writing and production. Visit www.cambridge.org/conferences to find out more.
 

www.nutrition.org.uk

As a nutrition charity, we want a future where everyone has a healthy, sustainable diet. That means navigating complex issues – the affordability of food, the availability of more sustainable options, and awareness of the importance of healthy eating.

We translate evidence-based nutrition science into accessible and engaging information that people across the food system including charities, community groups, health and social care professionals, think tanks, industry leaders and the general public can act upon. In all aspects of our work, we aim to communicate clearly, ensuring the information we provide is impartial, relevant and driven by our commitment to public benefit. 

Our strategic ambition is supported by 3 priorities

Educating people – focusing on those that are most vulnerable to poor nutrition, we aim  to provide information that supports people’s knowledge, skills and motivation to eat healthily.

Changing the food environment – we work with partners from across the food system including the food industry, advocating for change to make it easier to have a healthy diet and lifestyle.

Advocating science and building consensus – we translate nutrition science for a range of audiences and work collaboratively to advance the study of, and research into, nutrition for the public benefit.

Our activities include:

developing high quality nutrition resources, information and training for a range of audiences providing advice and consultancy on nutrition matters, developing and/or disseminating reviews of the evidence base; holding roundtables; performing nutritional and dietary analyses; multi-media resource development; establishing nutrient criteria for product ranges; carrying out secondary analysis of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey; reviewing nutrition websites; developing factsheets, FAQs, blogs and newsletters; and horizon scanning

- engaging with the media/social media
- delivering high quality training and events,
- publishing Nutrition Bulletin, our international peer reviewed journal
- providing www.nutrition.org.uk - a source of evidence-based nutrition information
- advancing food and nutrition education in schools via www.foodafactoflife.org.uk`
- hosting the British Nutrition Foundation Healthy Eating Week.

Danone UK & Ireland is a top 10 branded food and beverage manufacturer. Danone’s family of market-leading food and drink products supports the health of millions of consumers and patients throughout all stages of their lives. Home to household names that span across the dairy, plant-based and water industries, including Actimel, Activia, Alpro, GetPRO, evian, Volvic and Harrogate Spring Water. Danone is also a leading provider of specialised early-life nutrition products and services through its Nutricia brand, providing nutritional assistance to patients in hospital and people in the community.

Danone’s mission is to bring health through food to as many people as possible, and in the UK and Ireland, millions of people are eating or drinking one of its products every day.  

Danone Research and Innovation

Danone Research and Innovation is at the heart of Danone’s strategy. We believe that every consumer and patient deserves optimal nutritional support and we use life science, food science and technology, together with the passion, drive and expertise of over 1700 R&I employees worldwide, to pioneer nutritional solutions for both everyday and special nutritional needs.

Our key research areas include: nutrition & growth; gut health, microbiota and immunology; neurosciences; breastmilk; and muscles & mobility. We are particularly proud of our many biotic research achievements for application in health and in numerous disease conditions. We have been producing fermented foods containing probiotics for over 100 years and during this time, we have collected and preserved 4,000 strains of bacteria. In 2019 we opened our collection of 1,800 exclusive strains for research purposes, with the aim of sharing our legacy for the benefit of all. 

For more information, please visit www.danone.co.uk www.danone.ie or  www.danoneresearch.com

The Epidemiology Unit’s Nutrition Measurement Platform

The Epidemiology Unit’s Nutrition Measurement Platform, based in Cambridge, provides expertise and capacity to support research groups conducting observational studies, clinical trials, surveys and natural experimental studies. 

The Nutrition Measurement Platform comprises four specialist areas:

- Anthropometry
- Dietary assessment
- Nutritional biomarkers
- Physical activity measurement

The Nutrition Measurement Platform maintains, develops and leads adaptation of the online 24-hour dietary assessment tool Intake24 (originally developed by Newcastle University), working in collaboration with Monash University (Australia) and/or external partners.  In the UK, Intake24.org is used for dietary data collection in the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS), for which the Epidemiology Unit is the scientific lead.  Internationally the tool has been adapted for a rage of countries including France, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Caribbean and South Asia (Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as part of the  South Asia Biobank study). Standard versions of the tool are freely available to researchers with charges applied for customisations/adaptations.

The Nutritional Biomarker Laboratory maintains high quality methods for the accurate analysis of vitamins and nutrition-related analytes in physiological and metabolic studies, randomized controlled trials and national surveys, both in the UK and globally.

The Nutrition Measurement Platform manages the NDNS Bioresource on behalf of the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities (OHID).  The NDNS Bioresource has been established to facilitate access to valuable resources held within the UK NDNS collection, for the purpose of further health-related research in the public interest.

The platform also works on the translation of novel methods into scalable, validated, quality-assured measures for routine use in a range of research purposes and settings.

Session information

Day Two - 08:00

Breakfast Session: Dietary recommendations on bioactives: From science to policy
Hosted by: Supported by Lipton Teas and Infusions
Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall

Organisation information:

At Lipton Teas and Infusions, the world’s largest tea company, we are dedicated to empowering people worldwide to consume healthier beverages as part of a balanced and healthy lifestyle. Recognizing the significant role of beverages in the diet, we are committed to advancing research on bioactives. While dietary recommendations for nutrients and micronutrients are well established to help prevent disease, eating patterns like the Mediterranean diet, which are rich in bioactives, also can contribute to positive health outcomes. Growing evidence supports the preventative health benefits of certain bioactives, particularly flavonoids. Experts recommend consuming 400-600mg of flavan-3-ols daily, a sub-group of flavonoids, to support heart health. Green and black tea are among the top sources of flavonoids in the diet.

To learn more, don’t miss out on the "Dietary Recommendations on Bioactives: From Science to Policy Recommendations" session on January 22nd at 8 am. This session will explore the science behind bioactives and their role in preventing chronic diseases. Discussions will cover methods to determine intake, the quantities needed for health benefits, approaches communicate these benefits to the public, and policy actions needed to establish governement bioactive dietary recommendations.

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Day Two - 13:00

Lunch Session: How do whole-grains influence health?
Hosted by: PepsiCo
Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall

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PepsiCo is a global leader in convenient foods and beverages with products enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.   For more than 40 years, PepsiCo has been manufacturing and supplying delicious foods and beverages in the UK, and every day reaches millions of consumers. For example, our portfolio of grains encompasses the world-famous brand of Quaker Oats.

Sustainability is at the heart of our business; from the crops we grow through to our manufacturing operations and the packaging of our products. PepsiCo Positive (pep+) is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the centre of how we will create value and growth, by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. Across our portfolio, we offer something for every occasion with our range of diverse foods and beverages with great flavours and ingredients, as well as choices which are lower in saturated fat, salt and added sugars.

PepsiCo’s Health and Nutrition Sciences (H&NS) team is part of the PepsiCo Life Sciences function, which explores the relationships between nutrition, diet, health and performance and provides one voice for PepsiCo in the interpretation, communication and translation of science, with a specific focus on nutrition science, to support innovation. The team is made up of dedicated professionals who strive to advance nutrition as part of PepsiCo’s Positive Choices agenda across our diverse portfolio.

PepsiCo Health and Nutrition Sciences website is now live! Join our professional network here: www.pepsicohealthandnutritionsciences.co.uk and stay informed on PepsiCo’s H&NS research, infographics and webinars.