Cultural Nutrition: How Culture Shapes Diet, Health, and Identity


Discover how culture shapes what we eat, our health, and our identity. Cultural nutrition is a lens on traditions, beliefs, and the science that links diet to the body. Across regions and generations, foods tied to rituals, celebrations, and daily life influence taste, gut health, and resilience. By embracing cultural nutrition, we can honor heritage while guiding evidence-based choices that support well-being. InnerBuddies offers a white-label Gut Health Operating System that companies can use to power their gut microbiome testing products. The system is modular and designed to scale with your brand, so you can tailor insights and presentations to different audiences. Core features include a Gut Microbiome Health Index from 0 to 100, built on an exclusive IP deal with EAFIT University in Colombia, plus detailed Bacteria abundances and Bacteria functions, each categorized as positive or negative to show how you compare with a healthy cohort. Cultural nutrition comes alive through Target Group analysis, which delves into how the gut microbiome supports needs for Healthy Aging, Endurance Sport, Power Sport, Skin & Hair Health, and other culturally influenced contexts. By pairing 3-day food diaries with stool samples, InnerBuddies draws on a large database to predict how individual foods affect the microbiome, delivering Personalized nutrition advice and Personalized probiotics and prebiotics recommendations tailored to your unique gut composition. This approach lets brands offer culturally informed guidance that remains scientifically rigorous. For consumers seeking direct access, InnerBuddies provides gut test solutions that translate complex data into practical steps. Explore the InnerBuddies microbiome test, or maintain momentum with the gut health membership for ongoing insights, and connect with partners through the B2B program to power your own offering. All of the options available to B2B partners are also accessible directly to consumers, making cultural nutrition actionable for everyone.