About Us

Who We Are

Nutrasource Diagnostics Inc. (NDI) is a third-party corporation dedicated to discovering and commercializing the health benefits of nutrition through evidence-based science and innovation.

Located in the world-renowned University of Guelph Research Park, NDI has one of the largest non-university brain trusts of nutritional scientists focused exclusively on ingredient- and food-health relationships.

What We Do

As a hub for nutritional research activity, NDI provides full scientific solutions to the natural health product, food and beverage, agriculture, raw material and cosmetic industries as well as research organizations, academia, health care practitioners and consumers.

Our Strategy

Consumer interest in health, wellness and nutrition has grown substantially over the past decade, leading to increased market demand for novel products with added health benefits.

Whether the product in question is a natural health product or dietary supplement, food or beverage, agricultural product or cosmetic, NDI has the resources, infrastructure and expertise to assist industry at all points along the complex pathway from concept to claim and introduction to the marketplace.


	Summary of NDI’s concept to claim strategy for the investigation of food-health relationships and the commercialization of products.

As part of this systematic process, NDI offers a wide range of product and service offerings including:

Regulatory consultations
Health claim strategy and assessment
Food health claim applications
Research gap analyses
Systematic scientific literature reviews
Jurisdictional regulatory assessments
Theoretical product formulation development
Product analysis and testing
Human clinical trials
Preparation of publication-ready manuscripts
Health Canada applications for natural health products
Product labelling services
Novel food applications
Provision of marketing collateral material

Why choose NDI?

NDI has established a $7.1 million research infrastructure program to support innovative solutions to advance health-driven products from concept to claim;
NDI has a strong track record in successful concept-to-claim outcomes, with approximately 250 health claims approved by Health Canada;
NDI is the only privately held, Canadian-owned contract research organization exclusively focused on the agri-food and natural health product industries for human clinical trials – we focus solely on non-pharmaceuticals and never conduct in-house animal studies;
To date, NDI scientists have...
- Completed 5 of the 6 systematic literature reviews ever commissioned for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in support of food-health claim relationships;
- Completed over 50 human clinical feeding trials;
- Completed 5 human clinical trials that require Health Canada Natural Health Products Directorate approval;
- Been directly involved in over 300 approved product regulatory filings;
- Published more than 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals;
- Completed the Pulses and Cardiovascular Health expert panel review, hosted by the University of Toronto’s Program in Food Safety, Nutrition and Regulatory Affairs on behalf of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Health Canada.

Our Divisions

NDI consists of four divisions—the Clinical Trials Division, the Nutrition and Nutraceutical Research Division, the Human Diagnostics Division and the Product Analytics Division—which work together to advance products from concept to claim.

To learn about each division and explore the products and services offered by each, visit the links below:

Did you know? NDI also has branches in Guadalajara, Mexico and Munich, Germany!

Our Affiliations

NDI is also a proud member of the following organizations:

Guelph Chamber of Commerce
Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce
Guelph Food Technology Centre (GFTC)
Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA)
Canadian Nutrition Society (CNS)
Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3 (GOED)
Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB)