--- title: "The Meal Companion" description: "The meal companion for modern food: SiPore® creates a third place to act — locally, during digestion, with the meal. The meal arrives. Reach for SiPore®. Have your meal." url: "https://sipore.com/why-sipore/meal-companion" canonical: "https://sipore.com/why-sipore/meal-companion" markdown_url: "https://sipore.com/why-sipore/meal-companion.md" site: "SiPore" publisher: "SiPore Technologies (Sigrid Therapeutics AB)" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-02" --- # The Meal Companion > The meal companion for modern food: SiPore® creates a third place to act — locally, during digestion, with the meal. The meal arrives. Reach for SiPore®. Have your meal. *WHY SIPORE® / THE MEAL COMPANION* ## The meal companion for modern food. Healthy eating matters. But real life includes restaurants, rushed lunches, travel, family dinners, convenience and meals that are not nutritionally perfect. SiPore® was designed around that reality. Instead of asking people only to change what they eat, SiPore® creates another place to act: > **With the meal. During digestion.** The idea is simple. > **The meal arrives. Reach for SiPore®. Have your meal.** SiPore® is a meal-companion technology designed to reduce the impact of modern meals at the level of digestion. *A NEW WAY TO THINK ABOUT THE MEAL* ### A third place to act. Traditionally, metabolic-health approaches focus primarily on two places. SiPore® introduces a third. > **Not instead of better food. Not instead of appropriate healthcare. Another place to act.** - 01 — CHANGE THE FOOD — Change what goes into the meal. Eat differently. Improve meal composition. Restrict or avoid certain foods. - 02 — CHANGE THE BODY — Act through systemic biological pathways in the body. - 03 — CHANGE HOW THE MEAL IS PROCESSED — Act during digestion. SiPore® works locally in the gut while carbohydrates and fats from the meal are being broken down. *BUILT AROUND EATING ITSELF* ### Why the meal? The meal is not an arbitrary moment. SiPore®'s role is connected directly to how the technology works. Carbohydrates and fats enter the digestive system with the meal. Digestive enzymes begin breaking them down. SiPore® works locally during this process, slowing the breakdown of carbohydrates and fats so energy from the meal enters the system more gradually. That makes the meal the natural moment for SiPore®. Not hours before. Not as an unrelated morning wellness ritual. Not simply because it is easy to remember. > **Because digestion is when the technology has its role.** - Breakfast - Work lunch - Restaurant - Dinner *THE CATEGORY* ### What is a meal companion? A meal companion is a technology designed to accompany eating because its function takes place while the meal is being processed. For SiPore®, that creates a simple connection between biology, behavior and category. - It works during digestion. — SiPore® works locally in the gut, slowing the breakdown of carbohydrates and fats. - It belongs with the meal. — The intended behavior is simple: Meal + SiPore®. - The role is bigger than any single format. — The way SiPore® is delivered may change. The meal-companion role remains the same. *REAL MEALS. REAL LIFE.* ### Designed for real life. Metabolic health cannot depend on every meal being perfect. People do not choose food based on nutrition alone. Meals are also shaped by time, taste, convenience, family, culture, work, travel and social life. Research on eating behavior shows that contextual cues and the food environment can strongly influence food choices and consumption, often without deliberate awareness. [1] The SiPore® audience is people who want to live well in the modern food environment without having to optimize every meal perfectly. That does not make food quality unimportant. It means a realistic metabolic-health strategy should acknowledge the meals people actually eat. > **Modern food is the context. SiPore® is designed to work within it.** *FOOD-POSITIVE BY DESIGN* ### SiPore® is not another set of food rules. SiPore® is not built around guilt. It is not about labeling a meal as a failure. And it is not designed to make nutrition irrelevant. > **Make modern meals work better for you.** *WHY SIPORE® BELONGS WITH THE MEAL* ### The science makes the category possible. SiPore® is a patented technology based on precisely engineered porous silica particles. It works locally in the gastrointestinal tract and does not enter the bloodstream. During digestion, its engineered pores entrap a portion of digestive enzymes involved in breaking down carbohydrates and fats. This slows the breakdown of the meal so energy enters the system more gradually. - EAT — Carbohydrates and fats enter digestion. - ENTRAP + SLOW — SiPore® entraps a portion of digestive enzymes. - MORE GRADUAL — Breakdown and energy delivery become more gradual. [Explore how SiPore® works →](https://sipore.com/technology#how-it-works) *FROM THE FIRST MEAL* ### No loading period is required for the mechanism to begin. SiPore®'s local mechanical mode of action begins during digestion of the first meal with which it is used. That means its role is connected directly to the meal from the start. > **“Works from the first meal” describes the onset of the local mechanism.** It does not mean longer-term outcomes such as changes in weight, body composition, A1C or cholesterol occur after a single meal. Those outcomes must be understood within the relevant evidence and timeframe. [How SiPore® works from the first meal →](https://sipore.com/technology#first-meal) *A TECHNOLOGY, NOT A FORMAT* ### One role. Different formats. SiPore® is the technology. A capsule, powder, gel or future format is simply a way of delivering that technology. Likewise, dietary supplement, medical food and other commercial or regulatory routes describe particular products. They do not define the SiPore® category. > **The format can change. The role stays the same: SiPore® accompanies the meal.** This allows the meal-companion concept to extend across different products, brands, channels and future applications without changing what SiPore® fundamentally means. *SIPORE® IN THE MARKET* ### One technology. Multiple expressions. SiPore® Technology can be expressed through different brands and channels while retaining the same technology-level role. - Consumer products powered by SiPore® Technology. - Practitioner-facing SiPore® products and professional resources. - Technology partnerships that bring SiPore® to new products, brands and markets. *THE BEHAVIORAL AMBITION* ### From a technology to a behavior. The science can be sophisticated. The behavior should not be. Habit research shows that repeating a simple behavior in a consistent context can strengthen automaticity over time, and broader habit research describes recurring contextual cues as important triggers of repeated behavior. [2][3][4] For SiPore®, the meal itself provides a recurring context. The intended association is simple: > **The meal arrives. Reach for SiPore®. Have your meal.** This is a behavioral design principle, not a claim that SiPore® has demonstrated superior adherence or habit formation in clinical studies. > **Meal + SiPore®.** *THE WHY SIPORE® STORY* ### The three ideas come together. - Modern food can create a different digestive challenge because carbohydrates and fats can be broken down quickly. - It is not only what you eat. How quickly the meal is processed matters too. - SiPore® creates another place to act: locally, during digestion, with the meal. ### The meal companion for modern food. Modern food delivers energy fast. SiPore® slows it down. **Designed to reduce the impact of modern meals at the level of digestion.** [Explore the technology →](https://sipore.com/technology) [See the science →](https://sipore.com/science) *WHY SIPORE®* ### Explore the Why SiPore® story. - 01 — Modern Food — Why today’s food environment creates a different meal-level challenge. - 02 — Why Digestion Speed Matters — Why the rate at which food is broken down deserves more attention. - 03 — The Meal Companion — Why SiPore® introduces a new place to act: with the meal, during digestion. *REFERENCES* - doi:10.1111/j.1467-789X.2012.01001.x **Cohen DA, Babey SH. Contextual Influences on Eating Behaviors: Heuristic Processing and Dietary Choices. Obesity Reviews. 2012;13(9):766-779.** [Open source](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2012.01001.x) - doi:10.1002/ejsp.674 **Lally P, van Jaarsveld CHM, Potts HWW, Wardle J. How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world. European Journal of Social Psychology. 2010;40(6):998-1009.** [Open source](https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.674) - doi:10.3399/bjgp12X659466 **Gardner B, Lally P, Wardle J. Making health habitual: the psychology of habit-formation and general practice. British Journal of General Practice. 2012;62(605):664-666.** [Open source](https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp12X659466) - doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-122414-033417 **Wood W, Rünger D. Psychology of Habit. Annual Review of Psychology. 2016;67:289-314.** [Open source](https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-122414-033417) ## How to cite SiPore Technologies (Sigrid Therapeutics AB). “The Meal Companion”. SiPore, 2026-10-02. https://sipore.com/why-sipore/meal-companion (accessed ). Use the trademarks as written: SiPore®, Carb Fence™. For the SHINE trial, cite the peer-reviewed publication in *eClinicalMedicine* (The Lancet Discovery Science, 2026) rather than this page. ## Company & contact - **Company:** SiPore Technologies — legal entity Sigrid Therapeutics AB (Swedish org.nr [556958-3023](https://www.allabolag.se/foretag/sigrid-therapeutics-ab/sundbyberg/forskning/2K3ZHRJI5YE3M)) - **Stockholm headquarters:** Vasagatan 14A, 172 61 Sundbyberg, Sweden ([map](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Vasagatan%2014A%2C%20172%2061%20Sundbyberg%2C%20Sweden)) - **General enquiries:** [contact@sipore.com](mailto:contact@sipore.com) - **Partnerships & licensing:** [partnerships@sipore.com](mailto:partnerships@sipore.com) - **Origin:** Founded in Stockholm, Sweden - **Taglines:** “The meal companion for modern food.” · “Same meal. Less impact.” · “Scandinavian science. Global impact.” · “Precision science for the modern meal.” - **About:** SiPore® is a patented meal-companion technology designed to reduce the impact of modern meals at the level of digestion. **Our sites** — all sites owned and operated by Sigrid Therapeutics AB: - [SiPore.com](https://www.sipore.com/): Technology, science & partnerships - [SiPorePro.com](https://www.siporepro.com/): Practitioner products & professional resources - [SigridLife.com](https://sigridlife.com/): SIGRID consumer products - [SigridStabiliser.se](https://sigridstabiliser.se/): SIGRID Sweden --- [View on site](https://sipore.com/why-sipore/meal-companion) · [Site index for agents (llms.txt)](https://sipore.com/llms.txt)