Nutrition is proving skin deep

PATCHES designed to deliver nutrition through the skin have proved a winning formula for Dublin start-up Nutriband.

This month it has won €20,000 and the Young Entrepreneur award from South Dublin Local Enterprise Office as well as Product Start-Up of the Year and Young Entrepreneur Start-Up in the Bank of Ireland Start-Up awards.

The company was founded two years ago by Gareth Sheridan who realised that the patch technology used to deliver pain relief, nicotine, and HRT medication through the skin could be adapted to deliver minerals and nutrition.