Abstract

Today’s society puts us up with increasing levels of emotional and mental stress. Information flow, work loadincrease, and the balance between work and private life is under pressure. Decreasing physical activity and deterioratingfood habits take us out of balance even more, resulting in steeply increasing numbers of burned-out and depressedpeople. Therefore, it is no surprise that research on functional food ingredients have started to focus increasingly onemotional and mental health and wellbeing. This paper reviews the development of a protein-based brain food ingredient.The ingredient supports the brain with the crucial amino acids, in order to enable a balanced neurotransmitter synthesis,and thus contributes to a balanced brain functioning.