Sharp Ingrained Functional Foods Inc.

Dr. Arun Nagpurkar

Dr Arun Nagpurkar has a Ph.D in Carbohydrate Chemistry from University of London, England, and a twenty year research background in biochemical sciences in Canada. While at the University of Guelph working with Dr Bruce Holub, a renowned lipid scientist with a strong interest in OMEGA 3 fatty acids in human nutrition, the concept originated for making the two OMEGA 3 fatty acids DHA and EPA normally associated with marine source, available in every day foods. Research showed that seeds and grains when exposed to these OMEGA 3 fatty acids were actively metabolized and the EPA and DHA were transported from the seed to the leaves and stem of the plant.

This novel finding gave us an opportunity to ingrain EPA and DHA into a variety of seeds and grains, thus making these marine derived OMEGA 3 fatty acids available in foods not normally associated with marine EPA and DHA. This gives SIFF and Everspring farms an opportunity to provide EPA and DHA into foods in an efficient and safe manner. The importance of EPA and DHA, through good scientific research, is now well accepted for cardiovascular health, brain and neuronal development and in several other chronic human health conditions. It is especially important for children and to-be mothers whose intake of EPA and DHA is very poor.