Nutraceuticals

• Dietary bioactives such as polyphenols and flavonoids are important in the prevention of obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and liver disease.

• The use of bioactive compounds for functional foods is increasing in market share each year.

• Sugarcane is known to be one of the best feedstocks for the extraction of these valuable compounds.

• When bioactive compounds are extracted from Tilby generated Dermax, the purity and economics are far superiorto compounds extracted from conventional bagasse fibre.