Jennifer Grebow

At October’s SupplySide West trade show, probiotic supplier DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences highlighted some of its key focus markets, including stress and brain health, women’s health, and oral health.

OmniActive Health Technologies highlighted its expanded energy ingredients portfolio at October’s SupplySide West show, including an ingredient from Alpinia galangal, which is part of the ginger plant family, and a green coffee bean–based formula.

At October’s SupplySide West trade show, two ashwagandha suppliers talked what’s driving the ingredient’s growth.

Will established certification companies and laboratories now starting to offer services for this market boost quality control in the industry and help everyone better navigate this hazy space?

Many turmeric ingredient suppliers report that opportunities for turmeric are especially expanding in food and drinks.

Ashland (Wilmington, DE) introduced new ingredients and delivery systems for sports nutrition and digestive health at October’s SupplySide West trade show.

Q4 2019 is when price increases could be the most painful, said Wilson Lau, vice president of sales and marketing for Nuherbs Co.

At October’s SupplySide West trade show, NAI made a big splash with a new version of CarnoSyn called SR CarnoSyn. SR CarnoSyn is a patented, slow-release version of CarnoSyn that NAI says focuses on the healthy aging market and not on athletes.

A new ingredient for prostate health shows promise for shaking up the men’s health supplement category, which until now has been reliant on many of the same ingredients for years, a company says.

Also: What does the hemp supply landscape look like today?

Rooted Apothecary is the seventh CBD company to receive an FDA warning letter in 2019.

FDA today announced that during the first six months following the first compliance deadline-January 1, 2020-it will focus on helping companies meet the new rules, rather than coming out of the gate to immediately enforce the rules.

The new ingredient is called Starmeric, and it offers a new use for this superstar herb, which until now has been best known for the health benefits of its active ingredient curcumin.

The guidelines, established in October, set forth a framework of best practices and compliance standards for hemp extract/cannabinoid products. They exclude synthetic CBD.

The Natural Products Association polled 1000 registered voters in early October.

For athletes and sports enthusiasts, there may be another good reason to drink beer: because beer-specifically nonalcoholic beer and the malt it contains-may help to enhance exercise-related performance, energy, and recovery.

The dietary supplement industry may see its share of critics and negative headlines, but there is also plenty of positive news. Take the recent numbers shared by leading associations indicating that more consumers than ever before are buying supplements of all kinds.

Nutritional Outlook asked a handful of supplement industry stakeholders about how DSHEA has aged-and what a DSHEA 2.0 should look like. What, if any, changes to the law are needed? What changes are needed in the way FDA polices the market?

Researchers continue to evaluate the possible anticancer benefits of fucoidan, a polysaccharide derived from brown seaweed-most commonly, the species Undaria pinnatifida and Fucus vesiculosus.

With so much third-party reseller activity over dietary supplements happening on Amazon.com, it’s almost expected that some of that activity will be at the hands of bad actors, such as those selling counterfeit products.

Jetson offers four products: Fit (Summer), Mood (Fall), Immunity (Winter), and Outside (Spring).

The accreditation was expanded to include contaminants testing as well as BI’s plant-species identification method for powders and extracts, branded Identilok.

Protein company Perfect Day has introduced its first consumer product, a limited-edition ice cream featuring the company’s proprietary, fermentation-derived, animal-free protein.

There’s a new watermelon drink on the market. Wonder Melon is made from 100% organic, cold-pressed juice.

The company says this verification caters to the continually growing market for non-GMO ingredients.

The study, not yet published, is a follow-up to a 2015 study, also in older adults, that found that Longvida was associated with improved working memory and mood, including improvements in general fatigue and calmness.

Amarin Pharma’s recent comments advising FDA not to allow synthetic omega-3 supplements to be dietary supplements is just one more case in which synthetic supplement ingredients are under fire.

Many groups submitted public comments to FDA this week, following FDA’s recent May 31 open hearing on the issue of CBD regulation and call for public comment.

This expansion makes Ross the world’s largest supplier of ribbon blenders in China, the company says.

NR is a member of the vitamin B3 family and plays a role in the production of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), “an essential molecule found in every living cell,” says ChromaDex.