Muscle Health

A healthy nutritious diet is an essential part of enabling people to live an active life and perform at their best.

Overview

Muscle makes up about 40% of the body, making it essential for everyday physical activity.

With age, people tend to lose muscle. There are however ways to combat this loss, exercise being one, and especially weight training.

Maintaining a good diet is also essential, and protein is a key component of that. Protein supports muscle mass by providing amino acids which the body uses to make new proteins and new muscle. Consuming quality protein, spread across the day, is a proven way to help maintain muscle mass as we age, allowing people to keep active and mobile.

A quality diet is proven to promote optimal physical performance and maximise recovery post exercise.

Everyone wants to achieve the most out of their active lifestyle, whilst at the same time maintaining good all round health. To ensure the right adaptations and the greatest performance gains, promoting recovery is essential. Recovery covers many areas, such as rehydration, repair and immunity, and high-quality dairy nutrition can help with all three.

Dairy is full of ingredients that support energy, bone and muscle health and immunity, to help people keep performing at their best and feeling great.

Muscle growth helps improve sports performance, strength gain, and helps people look and feel better.

Gaining more muscle is an effective means to getting strong, and a major component of muscle strength is its size. The larger size is driven by increases in the protein components in the muscle that enable contraction. The more contractile tissue, the greater strength.

By consuming high-quality dairy protein after training, you can help stimulate muscle protein synthesis, actively producing new muscle tissue, that adds up over time to more muscle, greater strength and increased performance.

Applications

Ready to Drink

We have concepts to support ready to drink beverage applications, and functional proteins to overcome common beverage manufacturing challenges and meet consumer needs.

Nutrition Bars

We can help you target a range of specific consumer benefits from energy bars, supporting muscle recovery post-workout; a low-calorie meal replacement bar, a stress-buster bar or something that delivers healthy indulgence.

Ready to Mix Beverages

We have a range of instantized protein powders which are suitable for ready to mix beverages, from fast-digesting whey proteins, delicious milky proteins, and slow-digesting caseins.

Supplements

Whether you are looking to make capsules, tablets, sachets or formulated powders, our speciality ingredients are ideal for a range of different supplement formats.

Foods and Snacks

We have a wide range of dairy proteins suitable for fortifying food and snacking products. Our functional ingredients and extensive SureProtein™ portfolio allow for high-protein versions of a wide range of popular applications.

Interested in one of these applications?

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Resources

Whitepaper: Boost the Benefits of Nutrition

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Infographic: Why Your Muscles Need Protein

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