This review article examines how modern food science innovations are transforming sports nutrition, especially for endurance and high-performance athletes. The paper bridges laboratory-based discoveries with real-world sports practice, emphasizing how emerging technologies—including microencapsulation, nanotechnology, metabolomics, probiotics, and precision nutrition—are reshaping the development, delivery, and effectiveness of sports nutritional supplements.
The authors explain that traditional sports supplementation is evolving toward a more personalized and mechanistic approach driven by molecular biology, omics technologies, and artificial intelligence. The review highlights how sports nutrition products are increasingly designed to optimize endurance, recovery, muscle repair, energy metabolism, immune health, and injury prevention through targeted biological pathways.