Clasado has been named a finalist in the prestigious NutraIngredients USA Awards 2025, with its prebiotic ingredient Bimuno® GOS shortlisted in the Sports Nutrition Ingredient of the Year category.
The recognition highlights the growing importance of gut microbiome support in sports nutrition applications, with studies demonstrating Bimuno GOS’s efficacy in addressing key challenges faced by athletes and sports nutrition enthusiasts alike, including gastrointestinal discomfort during high-intensity exercise and immune function support.
Winners will be announced in Chicago, Illinois, on 14th July 2025, bringing together industry leaders from across the nutritional ingredients sector.
Per Rehné, CEO at Clasado, commented: “We’re delighted that Bimuno GOS has been recognised as a finalist in the Sports Nutrition category, due in no small part to the strong scientific portfolio that we are developing in this field. This acknowledgement reflects the significant advances in our understanding of how gut microbiome is a prerequisite for athletic performance beyond traditional sports nutrition approaches.
“Evidence points towards prebiotics as an exciting avenue of exploration in sports health. Studies with elite rugby players and footballers have demonstrated that Bimuno GOS can reduce upper respiratory symptom duration by 24% and help maintain gut barrier integrity during intense exercise in challenging environments – directly addressing two major factors that affect availability for training and competition.”
The nomination follows research highlighting Bimuno GOS’s sports-specific benefits, including a 24-week study published in the European Journal of Sport Science, and pre-publication research with soccer players, both demonstrating improvements relating to exercise-induced gastrointestinal symptoms, immune health and gut barrier integrity.
Backed by over 125 scientific publications including more than 20 clinical trials, Bimuno GOS is the most studied prebiotic GOS. Its low daily and clinically proven dose, starting from 1.37g active GOS, makes it particularly suitable for sports nutrition applications, where formulation space is often at a premium.
The NutraIngredients USA Awards celebrate the best ingredients, products, companies, and initiatives in the nutrition and supplement industry, with winners selected by a panel of independent judges.
To learn more about Bimuno GOS and its role in sport health applications, click here.
