"Designed and tested by neuroscientists." It is on our bottles. It is the first thing people ask about. And it is the one line we are most careful to earn.

Because anyone can put the word "brain" on a label. Proving it is the hard part.

The person behind the science.

Professor Andrew Scholey, our Chief Science Officer.

Our Chief Science Officer is Professor Andrew Scholey. He is one of the world's leading researchers in how nutrition affects the brain, with three decades in the field.

More than 300 published papers. Cited over 13,000 times. More than 100 studies in people. When Andrew backs something, it is because the evidence says so, not because it would sell.

The research never stops.

Ārepa has six published studies, with more underway, each one leading us further down the path of sarmentosin, the compound at the heart of everything we make. Two patents protect that work.

We do the science alongside the Bioeconomy Science Institute, the New Zealand research body that now brings together organisations including Callaghan and Plant & Food Research. That partnership keeps us honest, and it keeps the research moving.

Everyone says they put blood, sweat and tears into their business. Our founders mean the blood part literally. They were in the first human study of sarmentosin, rolling up their sleeves and giving their own blood for the research. We test what we make on ourselves, before anyone else.

Recognised for the science, not the marketing.

We have won the NutraIngredients Asia award twice, in 2020 and 2022, and were a finalist again in 2024. We were named in the Deloitte Fast 50. And this year we won the Asia Pacific FoodTech World Cup and finished runner-up in the global final. More than 10 million servings later, Ārepa is the number one brain health brand in New Zealand, on shelves in more than 2,000 stores across New Zealand and Australia.

None of that came from a clever campaign. It came from the work.

Why it matters.

We are not a drinks company that borrowed some science. We are a science company that happens to make things you can drink. Every product we make is really just a way to get the research off the page and into your day.

And it is why the next thing we build has to clear exactly the same bar.

Sip some neuroscience.