
Areas of research interest include studying functional ingredients that help with joint pain and stiffness as well as exercise-related joint degradation.

Jennifer Grebow is the former editor-in-chief of Nutritional Outlook, an award-winning media-content provider in the dietary supplement and natural products market. Nutritional Outlook, an MJH Life Sciences brand, provides insights and industry updates critical to manufacturers of dietary supplements, healthy foods, and nutritious beverages. Nutritional Outlook keeps industry abreast of current market trends, research updates, news, and regulatory developments. Nutritional Outlook goes beyond the 24-hour news cycle and provides in-depth analysis to help industry players navigate the challenges and changes in the near- and long-term. Nutritional Outlook is a brand of MJH Life Sciences, the largest privately held, independent, full-service medical media company in North America, dedicated to delivering trusted health care news across multiple channels.

Areas of research interest include studying functional ingredients that help with joint pain and stiffness as well as exercise-related joint degradation.

Made from U.S.-grown and processed yellow peas, Simpleat ingredients are non-GMO and allergen free.

Counterfeiting is a worsening problem in the dietary supplements industry. What can be done about it?

Gadot Biochemicals is strengthening focus on its Gadomag K ingredient for boosting the level of magnesium in plant-based and dairy milks.

Biosearch’s ingredients will be folded into Kerry’s global ProActive Health ingredient portfolio.

There’s a lot of white space and opportunity in plant-based yogurts and desserts. Heading into IFT’s FIRST virtual event, Beneo explains why rice starch will advance the state of the plant-based market.

Researchers enrolled 309 adult COVID-19 outpatients in Turkey to receive either the mixture of the metabolic activators or a placebo twice daily for 14 days.

Probi will manufacture Blis’s bacterial strains and sell them to Probi customers. The two companies will also collaborate on research and development.

Up to 80% of LifyWheat’s fiber content is resistant starch, which not only helps fulfill fiber intake but also offers such health benefits as controlling postprandial glycemic response to maintain healthy blood sugar levels, helping maintain a healthy microbiome, and improving intestinal immunity and digestion.

Ingredients supplier Bioiberica has revamped the brand identity for its healthcare ingredients portfolio as part of the company’s long-term growth strategy.

Steve Dillingham has been named senior vice president, global ingredient sales. Cofounder and executive chairman David Wiley now serves as CEO of the organization’s Wiley Ingredients operating company.

More than 14,000 consumers across 18 countries in North America, Europe, and Latin America were surveyed.

American River Nutrition’s GG-Gold ingredient containing geranylgeraniol (GG) has been self-determined to be Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) for food and beverage use.

ROC certification promotes holistic agriculture practices, including increasing soil organic matter and sequestering carbon, improving animal welfare, and providing economic stability and fairness to farmers, ranchers, and workers.

The new Kaged Muscle product, Pro-biotic Premium Performance, is marketed to enhance endurance, reduce fatigue, and promote gut health.

Seraphina Therapeutics, a San Diego–based health and wellness company, says it discovered the fatty acid, which it sells as a trademarked ingredient called FA15 as well as in its own Fatty15 brand of dietary supplement.

The company’s goal is to analyze and define full-spectrum kratom.

Ingredient suppliers share their latest research on how consumer attitudes towards functional foods and beverages changed over the past year.

The June 2021 report, “Ecommerce Health & Wellness Spotlight,” examined sales trends in the OTC market in 2020, both in-store and online, and revealed additional promising trends for the supplements category.

Pharmavite says 8 out of 10 pharmacist surveyed reported maintaining their own daily vitamin supplementation routine; moreover, 75% said more patients have requested information about vitamins and dietary supplements during the pandemic.

A survey and trial conducted by French healthcare market research company Expansion Consulteam found that nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic who took a ubiquinol supplement daily felt less tired and stressed.

A petition to add pullulan to the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances was first filed in January 2018, with the National Organic Standards Board recommending its addition in April 2019.

Eriocitrin is a lemon flavonoid extracted from citrus fruits like lemons that research suggests can play a positive role in supporting healthy blood sugar levels, cardiovascular health, and more.

Supplements giant Pharmavite says it’s become the first vitamin and supplement brand partner to join J.E.D.I. Collaborative, a nonprofit initiative started in 2019 to bolster justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the natural products industry.

Authors of a paper published in Nutrients suggest DRI changes for vitamin K, magnesium, lutein, and omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA.

The brand 24hr Supplement has launched a new supplement product for immunity featuring the company’s flagship TurmiZn-OS curcumin ingredient complex.

During the American Herbal Products Association’s AHPA Botanical Congress this week, experts discussed strategies for keeping the supplement industry’s growth going.

Voluntary remote regulatory assessments, plus a continued risk-based approach, are “efficiency” tools FDA is using as it clears through its inspection “backlog” resulting from the pandemic.

One expert explains why the GRAS discussion is much more complex—and why it should be ongoing.

Nutritional Outlook spoke to a few equipment suppliers about equipment features their clients are prioritizing.