Provided are food compositions configured to promote neurodevelopment in developing subjects. Food compositions of the present disclosure may make available to a subject those nutrients that are required by or otherwise positively influence developing brain regions, and the neurons thereof, during specific windows of neurodevelopment. Also provided are kits and systems that relate to the subject food compositions as well as methods, such as methods of formulating the described food compositions.

The present invention provides compositions and methods for enhancing the health of a subject by, for example, restoring the subjects gut microbiome, increasing water and electrolyte absorption in the digestive tract, and/or providing a therapeutic substance to the subject. In certain specific embodiments, the present invention can be used for ameliorating the adverse physiological effects that can result from the presence of one or more detrimental microorganisms in a subjects gut. In certain specific embodiments, the present invention can also be used as an enhanced mode of hydration or re-hydration, particularly for subjects suffering from, for example, a condition that causes vomiting and/or diarrhea.

The present invention provides compositions and methods for enhancing the health of a subject by, for example, restoring the subjects gut microbiome, increasing water and electrolyte absorption in the digestive tract, and/or providing a therapeutic substance to the subject. In certain specific embodiments, the present invention can be used for ameliorating the adverse physiological effects that can result from the presence of one or more detrimental microorganisms in a subjects gut. In certain specific embodiments, the present invention can also be used as an enhanced mode of hydration or re-hydration, particularly for subjects suffering from, for example, a condition that causes vomiting and/or diarrhea.

A new means of creating a standardized honey that can be used for a variety of uses. One example is a honey product that protects the stomach and inhibits H. pylori. This product has a consistent minimal antimicrobial effect. The honey may be standardized to pH, organic acid level, mineral levels, aldehyde levels, and polyphenol levels. Molasses or natural syrup may be substituted for honey. Other variations are honey that is supplemented with molasses, natural syrup, standardized molasses and/or standardized natural syrup.

A new means of creating a standardized honey that can be used for a variety of uses. One example is a honey product that protects the stomach and inhibits H. pylori. This product has a consistent minimal antimicrobial effect. The honey may be standardized to pH, organic acid level, mineral levels, aldehyde levels, and polyphenol levels. Molasses or natural syrup may be substituted for honey. Other variations are honey that is supplemented with molasses, natural syrup, standardized molasses and/or standardized natural syrup.

Novel products formulated for use as nutritional supplements are designed to enhance oral health and immune function in mammals. An exemplary composition can be customized by adding nutritional or therapeutic ingredients according to a health condition or medical requirement. Oral formulations are described which can be used as dietary supplements on a daily basis to effectively prevent plaque formation in the oral cavity in addition to providing immune protection mediated by enhancing saliva secretions.

Novel products formulated for use as nutritional supplements are designed to enhance oral health and immune function in mammals. An exemplary composition can be customized by adding nutritional or therapeutic ingredients according to a health condition or medical requirement. Oral formulations are described which can be used as dietary supplements on a daily basis to effectively prevent plaque formation in the oral cavity in addition to providing immune protection mediated by enhancing saliva secretions.

Provided herein are a cosmetic composition, a health functional food composition, a pharmaceutical composition, and a quasi-drug composition that include ionone or a salt thereof as an active ingredient and have an effect of enhancing skin moisturizing, exfoliating skin, improving skin elasticity, inhibiting erythema, improving skin wrinkles, or alleviating skin photoaging. The ionone or the salt thereof has an activity of enhancing skin moisture content, reducing skin moisture evaporation, increasing procollagen secretion, promoting collagen biosynthesis, suppressing collagen fiber damage, suppressing collagen fiber decomposition, inhibiting erythema, and suppressing the thickening of a skin epidermis layer, and thus may be usefully used as a material of functional cosmetics, health functional foods, pharmaceuticals, quasi-drugs, or the like that provide an effect of enhancing skin moisturizing, exfoliating skin, improving skin elasticity, inhibiting erythema, improving skin wrinkles, and/or alleviating skin photoaging.

Provided herein are a cosmetic composition, a health functional food composition, a pharmaceutical composition, and a quasi-drug composition that include ionone or a salt thereof as an active ingredient and have an effect of enhancing skin moisturizing, exfoliating skin, improving skin elasticity, inhibiting erythema, improving skin wrinkles, or alleviating skin photoaging. The ionone or the salt thereof has an activity of enhancing skin moisture content, reducing skin moisture evaporation, increasing procollagen secretion, promoting collagen biosynthesis, suppressing collagen fiber damage, suppressing collagen fiber decomposition, inhibiting erythema, and suppressing the thickening of a skin epidermis layer, and thus may be usefully used as a material of functional cosmetics, health functional foods, pharmaceuticals, quasi-drugs, or the like that provide an effect of enhancing skin moisturizing, exfoliating skin, improving skin elasticity, inhibiting erythema, improving skin wrinkles, and/or alleviating skin photoaging.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to ingredients, formulations, methods of manufacture and use of an oral rehydration solution (“ORS”) in the prevention and treatment of dehydration in humans. More specifically, invention embodiments relate to flavored electrolyte drink mixtures that relieve the dehydrating effects caused by travel, exercise, over-indulgence of toxic substances, and various illnesses in individual subjects. An ORS embodiment of the present invention restores fluid and electrolyte balance in humans as fast and as effectively as IV therapy, and thereby reduces the incidence of dehydration in human populations as well as rehydrating individuals in circumstances where IV therapy is not practical or wanted. The disclosed ORS therapies and packs may be used in conjunction with IV therapy as a multi-part strategy to allow hospitals to lower patient re-admission rates, lower staffing needs, give outpatient self-therapy to treatments prescribed outside of the hospital environment, and thus lower treatment and process costs while not reducing system or treatment efficacy.