Nutrient systems
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Nutrient Systems (nutrient premixes) integrate functional ingredients from vitamins, minerals, amino acids, nucleotides and nutraceuticals. These mixes are very cost-saving and beneficial to manufacturers, researchers and developers in the food and pharmaceutical industries worldwide. This is a booming business and is part of the multi-billion dollar nutrition industry worldwide.
Nutrient Premixes, or "nutrient systems" are custom designed premixed blends containing any of a wide variety of nutrients associated with health and wellness – used in the fortification of food, drinks and pharmaceutical products.
Premixes are complex blends of ingredients. There is a science to developing the optimum premix for food or drink applications – identifying and achieving desired specifications, selecting proper market forms, ensuring quality and consistency… all without compromising taste or texture in the end product.
Many everyday foods and pharmaceuticals are derived from nutrient premixes.
This problem is modeled as a classic model in Dynamic Programming and is known as Blending Problem or Cutting Stock Problem. recently it has taken much attention in other fields of optimization such as Optimum Design, Supply Chain and other industrial applications dealing with Non-Diterministic Dynamic demand of customers.
[edit] See also
- Compound feed
- Feed mill
- Animal feed
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