Trustees include France Jackson (Chairman) and John Stein (physiologist).
In 1984 a charity known as South Cumbria Alternative Sentencing Options was founded to investigate whether nutrition could play a role in minimising recidivism in young offenders.
The organisation became Natural Justice in 1991, and finally the Institute for Food, Brain and Behaviour in 2010.
The study commenced in January 2008 with Professor John Stein (physiologist) of Oxford University as Principal Investigator.
The institute has been carrying out a study at Robert Clack School into whether nutritional supplements can improve disadvantaged pupils' cognitive skills and behaviour.