Overview
The format of the symposium included invited lectures, short communications on selected abstracts, poster sessions and a panel discussion.
Setting the scene
Definitions for health, maintenance of homeostasis, how to measure benefits, methods to define causalities
Insights to food characterisation
Characterisation of complex foods, concepts in bioavailability, interactions of bioactive compounds
Markers or endpoints for health
Opportunities in non-clinical end-points, non-reductionistic approaches to markers, novel technologies
Targeting and testing benefits
Approaches to target individuals, specific consumer groups or population nutrition
Benefit communications
Drivers of consumer choice, understanding and acceptance of innovations, influencing consumer behaviour, measurements of success post-market