Whereas food ingredients or pharmaceutical may act locally in the gastrointestinal tract, absorption from the gut and systemic circulation of the active compound is in many cases essential for their impact on human health. Similarly, digested food metabolites, such as simple sugars, peptides and lipids are typically removed from the intestinal tract by absorptive processes.
To include such absorptive processes in its technology platform, ProDigest has developed a number of absorption models. Depending on the specific interest, ProDigest uses dialysis modules, ultrafiltration setups or cell culture-based absorption models.