Our story

OUR PURPOSE is to improve health through nutrition.

NUCAPS is an international biotechnology company based in Navarra, Spain, that develops and produces a new kind of functional ingredients: Protein microencapsulated bioactives and probiotics with improved functionalities in terms of nutrition, costs and taste, to get a real impact on human health. We are part of the new society and a positive social impact.

NUCAPS improves people’s Nutrition & Health as we help to produce better food, supplements and drugs by making nutritional ingredients stable, easy to absorb, healthy and natural.

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NUCAPS is a technology company  founded in 2017 to commercialize proprietary protein-based microencapsulation technology developed by CNTA (National Center for Food Technology and Safety), Universidad de Navarra, and ARDENA.

We solve one of the key challenges in nutrition and health: enabling the effective oral delivery of bioactive ingredients and probiotics. Many of these compounds have proven health benefits but suffer from low stability, poor bioavailability, degradation, or unpleasant taste, limiting their real impact on health.

Our patented protein coating technology protects active ingredients and allows controlled release and full absorption, increasing bioavailability by up to 30×, reducing costs by up to 70%, and extending shelf life from days to months. Using only food proteins, NUCAPS enables a clean-label, sustainable, and industrially scalable solution.

NUCAPS operates as a B2B partner for manufacturers of functional foods, nutraceuticals, and ingredients, delivering superior performance in health impact, taste, stability, and cost.

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Innovation awards

NUCAPS technology has received various international recognitions and awards in food and nutraceuticals, such as “FutureFood” by Iparlat 2024, “Greatest Projection” (Alimentaria Hub 2024), “FoodTech Startup with the Greatest International Projection” 2023 (Food4Future), “Scale the Impact” 2023 (Social Nest–Danone), “Best Deep Science Startup” 2022 (Foro Transfiere), “Innovation Award” 2021 (Food4Future), NutraIngredients Awards 2021 (Vitafoods), Ingenia Award 2019 (FIAB–Food4Life), “Best Technological Solution” 2019 (Smart Agrifood Summit), and the recommendation as “The Future of Nutrition” 2019 (FI Innovations Awards), among others.

Our team

NUCAPS has a strong team of 14 fully dedicated employees. On the lead of our technical team, 7 experienced female doctors, really involved in improving health through nutrition.

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    FÉLIX RECARTE Scientific Advisor