We’re a team driven to making a difference to food, beverages, supplements, humans, pets, and
more. From small startups to global corporations, we’ve helped
businesses expand and thrive by sourcing them the right ingredients.
Bringing over 100 combined years of experience in the dietary supplements, food, and beverage industries, our team is committed to providing you with the highest quality ingredients, focusing on sustainability and innovation.
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Lily Ruan is the founder and President of NURA. She has more than ten years of experience in the dietary supplement, food, and beverage ingredients industry. Lily leads the NURA team to be strong innovative, and passionate. She believes that having a growth mindset is the key to her team’s success. Lily also believes that consumer goods that contain healthy and clean ingredients can make for a better and long-term life. Furthermore, she holds a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and lives in California with her husband and two boys. She is always here to listen and help when you need it.
Melissa graduated with honors from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Food Science & Human Nutrition in 2000. She continued her education at UF until completing her Master of Science in Food Science one year later.
Melissa quickly entered the Consumer Goods industry at ACH Foods. She worked directly with pan spray release applications, liquid fats and oils, shortenings, corn starch, corn syrup, and salad dressings. After three years at ACH, Melissa left, contributing to the current domestic and international patent used for the Weber Grill brand, non-flammable grill spray formula, on the shelves today.
Moving to King & Prince Seafood, Melissa expanded her fats & oils knowledge to include developing and onsite manufacturing battered & breaded seafood items, cream-based dips, and other frozen food applications. After three years, Melissa transitioned to Tate & Lyle. For five years, she worked within the Technical Service team, developing out-of-box concepts, formulation and processing troubleshooting, and innovative ingredient technology collaboration on various applications. Melissa assumed the role of Head of Innovation & Technical Services at Batory Foods, where she developed Batory Sweet Essentials, the new line of five FDA-GRAS sweetener blends, as an easy replacement for sucrose for use across all food and beverage applications.
Melissa now resides in Southern California, working for NURA USA as the Director of Research & Development. Her team is responsible for the best-in-class technical support for functional ingredient recommendations, troubleshooting manufacturing processes, and innovative concept & ingredient development.
