Everyday Stress and Immunity: Why Precision Prebiotics Matter

Everyday stress may weaken the body’s natural defences by disrupting the gut microbiome, a key player in immune resilience. Benicaros®, a patented, upcycled precision prebiotic fibre, offers a clinically validated approach to everyday immune and gut support, delivering consistent and robust benefits compared to traditional broad‑spectrum fibres. Precision prebiotics matter because they’re designed to work effectively across different gut microbiome types, helping ensure reliable outcomes.

Benicaros® trains the innate immune system for smarter, faster and stronger responses, while supporting beneficial gut bacteria and their metabolites across diverse gut ecosystems. A study showed that it accelerated innate immune and antiviral responses to a common cold infection after eight weeks.¹

Further research demonstrated up to a 33% reduction in symptom severity and up to a three‑day shorter duration², highlighting the valuable support Benicaros® can provide during everyday immune challenges

Further research³ demonstrates that Benicaros® supports improved microbiota balance and metabolic activity, even when dietary fibre intake is already high. A study has shown increases in beneficial bacteria such as Bifidobacteria, alongside elevated production of key metabolites including indole‑3‑propionic acid (IPA) and short‑chain fatty acids (SCFAs)³, which are important for gut microbiome and immune support.

Stress, gut health and immunity are known to be closely connected. Elevated stress hormones may negatively affect gut balance, reducing microbial diversity and the production of beneficial metabolites that help regulate immune activity. Because so much of the immune system is located in the gut, these changes may weaken immune readiness. Supporting the gut microbiome is therefore an important way to help maintain strong immune defences during everyday stress.

Benicaros® is a sustainable, award-winning, natural, neutral in taste, clean‑label ingredient offering good solubility for innovative food supplement solutions. Its clinically supported dual action on immune resilience and gut microbiota makes Benicaros® an ideal choice for innovative formulations targeting everyday stress, immunity and gut health.

For more information, download our Benicaros® Product Profile Sheet here or contact us.

_{References
(1) Lutter et al. The Dietary Intake of Carrot‐Derived Rhamnogalacturonan‐I Accelerates and Augments the Innate Immune and Anti‐Viral Interferon Response to Rhinovirus Infection and Reduces Duration and Severity of Symptoms in Humans in a Randomized Trial: doi:10.3390/nu13124395. Pub Dec 2021
(2) McKay et al. Effects of Dietary Supplementation with Carrot-Derived Rhamnogalacturonan-I (cRG-I) on Accelerated Protective Immune Responses and Quality of Life in Healthy Volunteers Challenged with Rhinovirus in a Randomized Trial: doi:10.3390/nu14204258. Pub Oct 2022
(3) Van den Abbeele et al. A Novel Non-Digestible, Carrot-Derived Polysaccharide (cRG-I) Selectively Modulates the Human Gut Microbiota while Promoting Gut Barrier Integrity: An Integrated in Vitro Approach: doi:10.3390/nu12071917. Pub Jun 2020}