DSM’s tensVida wins award in Europe

DSM’s lactotripeptide blood pressure management ingredient, tensVidaTM1, has received a win at this year’s European Outsourcing Awards in the Outstanding Application in Nutraceuticals category.

tensVida received multiple international industry recognitions such as the NutrAward for most innovative, evidence-based health and nutrition ingredient at Nutracon 2009, the Gold Award for the best innovation in health ingredients at HiE 2008, and two finalist positions at Drinktec 2009.

The ingredient contains specific, naturally-occurring dairy peptides called lactotripeptides that have been shown to help control blood pressure in multiple clinical studies.

The active peptide responsible for lowering blood pressure is lactotripeptide Isoleucine-Proline-Proline (IPP).

Although lactotripeptides are present in normal dairy products, they are inactive within the original milk protein.

DSM has therefore developed innovative enzymatic technology to release and activate the peptides.