Vitafoods Europe 2026: Lallemand Bio-Ingredients drives functional, clean label innovation in F&B
21 May 2026 | Lallemand Bio-Ingredients
Annemarie Halter, VP Health Ingredients at Lallemand Bio-Ingredients, explores how fermentation-derived probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics enable clean label, functional benefits in mainstream F&B — making immune support, digestive health, and scalable innovation accessible in snacks, beverages, and meal replacements.
Food ingredients first reported from Vita Foods Europe 2026 in Barcelona.
We're at the Alaman Bar ingredients booth with Anne-Marie Helter, who is the VP for health ingredients.
Welcome to you.
So consumers are increasingly looking for functional benefits like immune support and digestive health in everyday food products.
How are Lanneman's ingredients helping manufacturers to deliver these benefits in more accessible formats like snacks, beverages, and meal replacements?
Yeah, we definitely see a trend towards the functional food and beverages and that people are looking for health benefits in them.
So our products that are mainly geared towards dietary supplements also have an application in the broader sense.
It's extremely important that it follows with some application work so that we can support.
The food and beverage manufacturers.
OK, so how do you balance the growing consumer demand for clean label natural ingredients with the need for scientifically backed functional benefits, and what role does fermentation play in this process for mainstream products?
Fermentation is generally considered as a natural process, and all our ingredients are fermentation derived.
So we have a very good fit with the clean label ingredients, but we also can offer some enhanced health benefits.
Yeah.
OK, and as more F&B companies move to incorporating probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics into their products, how is Vladimir ensuring that these ingredients are scalable and cost effective for use in larger volume mainstream products?
So we have invested in our product development and production sides, but our products always come with clinical studies or health claims, so that's extremely important, and that comes at a certain premium, but I think that's important to have.
Products that are seek for by their customers.
OK, so as fermentation derived ingredients continue to gain traction for these more mainstream applications, what do you see as the next frontier for these ingredients, and how is Gladiman innovating for the future?
So we're looking at the trends in the industry.
The gut microbiome is for sure a huge trend, and we're looking at developing new products that fit in that arena.
