Nutricia

About Nutricia

Nutricia is a Dutch medical nutrition company and part of Danone. It focuses on specialized nutrition for people whose ordinary food intake is not enough or not suitable, including patients with disease-related malnutrition, children with growth or feeding challenges, and people with specific metabolic or neurological conditions.

The company positions itself around the belief that nutrition can make a positive and proven difference to health. Its website emphasizes medical nutrition as a carefully formulated dietetic product used during illness and recovery, and it presents Nutricia as a partner for both patients and healthcare professionals through products, education, and practical support.

Nutricia also highlights its long history in the Netherlands, with roots in Zoetermeer more than 120 years ago, and its role within Danone’s broader nutrition platform. That combination of clinical focus, heritage, and corporate backing shapes its market position as a specialist in therapeutic and medical nutrition.

Core Values

• Health impact: Nutricia repeatedly frames its work around improving health, recovery, and wellbeing through nutrition. Its mission language stresses helping patients and supporting better outcomes with evidence-based products.
• Scientific evidence: The company emphasizes products developed and updated in line with scientific insights, and its Academy and educational materials show a strong focus on clinical knowledge and professional training.
• Personalization: Nutricia highlights tailored nutrition for individual situations, offering a broad portfolio, multiple flavors, and support tools so care can be adapted to patient needs.
• Sustainability: The company links its work to lower-carbon operations, circular packaging, waste reduction, and more sustainable ingredient sourcing, including regenerative agriculture and plant-based nutrition options.
• Support and partnership: Nutricia presents itself as a partner to healthcare professionals, patients, and institutions, offering not only products but also education, service, and practical support.

Unique Aspects

• Part of Danone with B Corp certification: Nutricia says it is part of Danone Nederland, which is B Corp certified. It uses that status to underline commitments to social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
• Broad clinical specialization: The website shows unusually wide coverage across pediatric, adult, metabolic, neurological, and feeding-related conditions, including PKU, refractory epilepsy, dysphagia, and disease-related undernutrition.
• Strong educational platform: Nutricia’s Academy offers online trainings, e-learnings, webinars, and congress-related materials for healthcare professionals, making education a visible part of its offering rather than a side activity.
• Plant-based medical nutrition expansion: Nutricia has introduced plant-based medical nutrition options and explicitly positions them as part of a healthier and more sustainable nutrition transition.
• Operational sustainability measures: The company states that its Dutch factories use 100% renewable electricity, that its Haps site has doubled capacity while reducing CO2 emissions by 50%, and that its Zoetermeer and Haps factories are zero waste to landfill.
• Longstanding Dutch heritage: Nutricia traces its history in Zoetermeer back to 1896 and presents that heritage as part of its identity in specialized nutrition.