Sports performance and recovery

Sports nutrition is evolving beyond muscle building toward whole-body performance, where gut health, cellular resilience and recovery are becoming as important as protein intake.

1. Trend

   Clean-label proteins for muscle recovery

   Sports nutrition is expanding beyond traditional dairy-based formats toward complete, highly digestible plant proteins that fit clean-label and recovery-focused product concepts.

2. Benexia solution

   Explore XIA Protein for clean-label, recovery-focused formulations.

3. Trend

   Gut health for performance

   Athletes and sports nutrition brands are increasingly interested in the relationship between gut health, performance, recovery, and immune function, driving demand for fiber ingredients that can be incorporated without compromising product functionality.

4. Benexia solution

   XIA Fiber helps formulators increase dietary fiber in sports nutrition products designed for gut-health and microbiome-focused positioning.

5. Trend

   Omega-3 for cellular performance

   Sports nutrition is expanding beyond recovery to optimize anti-inflammatory response, cellular resilience, metabolic flexibility and endurance, increasing interest in omega-3 ingredients for active lifestyles products.

6. Benexia solution

   Rich in plant-based ALA omega-3, XIA Oil and ALA Powder provide concentrated ingredient options for sports nutrition products positioned around active lifestyles and recovery routines.