Jennifer Grebow

Most recently, DuPont Nutrition & Health announced it is partnering with the Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies to explore new processes for producing “next generation” probiotics.

At last week’s Natural Products Expo West trade show, representatives from Lonza Consumer Health and Nutrition discussed how acquiring Capsugel’s delivery-systems portfolio empowers Lonza to provide comprehensive, clean-label solutions to the nutraceutical industry.

Icon Foods says the sweetener is designed to help achieve clean-label sugar reduction for edible cannabis products.

Nutritional Outlook interviewed representatives from the International Probiotics Association and the Global Prebiotic Association about whether there is growing collaboration between the probiotic and prebiotic industries.

Cranberry-ingredients supplier Fruit d’Or Nutraceuticals (Villeroy, QC, Canada) is presenting innovative new delivery formats for its nutraceutical-grade cranberry ingredients, which the company says are standardized for their high content of proanthocyanidins (PACs). The new delivery formats include beverages as well as “popping” crystals that burst on the tongue once consumed.

Aker BioMarine (Oslo, Norway) debuted promising new pilot-study data at last week’s Natural Products Expo West trade show, examining the benefits of the company’s Superba Boost krill oil concentrate for recovery of triathletes following high-intensity exercise.

Through recent acquisitions and investments in supply chain and infrastructure, the company says it has become one of the top five suppliers worldwide for natural colors.

Nutritional Outlook interviews experts in different areas of the blending business about today’s biggest blending challenges and how brand marketers can ensure that their projects are a success.

Congratulations to our 2016 Best of the Industry Award Winners: The American Herbal Products Association, Lycored, Brassica Protection Products, and Bühler Insect Technology Solutions.

I recently spoke with Jane Wilson, AHPA’s director of program development, about how its standardized best practices tools can be used up and down the botanical supply chain, and about how they hopefully will help bolster quality control and transparency throughout the botanical industry.

I spoke to CRN’s president and CEO, Steve Mister, about the registry’s progress over the past year.

Aker BioMarine and the Antarctic Wildlife Research Fund strengthen their mission to protect the Antarctic krill ecosystem.

Now part of the company’s Bensdorp Clean clean-label cocoa powders line, the two new cocoa powders are alkalized with baking soda, allowing a label claim of “cocoa processed with baking soda” instead of “cocoa processed with alkali.”

The first ingredient, called Quantum IQ, is a patented, standardized kesum extract (Polygonum minus).

Frutarom is proposing Frutaceuticals for supplement consumers suffering from “pill fatigue."

NattoPharma (Oslo, Norway) unveiled its latest vitamin K2 innovation yet at this year’s SupplySide West trade show: the industry’s first and only full-spectrum vitamin K2 ingredient that comprehensively provides menaquinones (MK) 6, 7, 8, and 9, all vital to heart health.

The company rolled out several botanical-based concepts centered on these two hot-topic health areas.

This ingredient offers benefits such as low glycemic and insulin response and healthy bowel function.

The ingredient is designed to withstand high temperatures and stay soluble and stable when added to hot water.

The Triple-T program takes a three-pronged approach to supply-chain traceability: trace, test, and trust.

The probiotic energy tablet the company is exhibiting at SupplySide West contains 2 billion CFU of probiotics per tablet, but the firm says it can also manufacture other probiotic chewables that contain up to 25 billion CFU probiotic/tablet.

The ingredient, called Sustra 2434, is a blend of native corn starch and tapioca flour and, according to the company, has been scientifically shown in the company’s proprietary research to promote a lower glycemic index and steadier blood sugar levels over an extended period of time.

Reginator is a patented blend of nine essential amino acids, plus arginine, that has been shown to increase muscle synthesis.

The new format is a stick pack containing probiotic powder that melts directly in the mouth-no water needed, the company says.

The new ingredient has a “degree of hydrolysis (DH) of 20,” the company says, which makes it significantly more absorbable in the body compared to other forms of protein.

Lipofoods (Barcelona), a company specializing in microencapsulated functional ingredients for foods, beverages, and dietary supplements, is introducing a new, microencapsulated, slow-release caffeine ingredient targeting athletes at this week’s SupplySide West trade show in Las Vegas.

The positive role dietary supplements play in the lives of consumers of all ages has only continued to grow. 

Corby Reese, partner and managing director at Swander Pace Capital (San Francisco), talks about the ins and outs of private equity in the natural products space.

When big CPG companies acquire smaller natural companies, should the two companies remain largely separate?

The plant should be operational beginning in the first half of 2018 and is projected to be the largest industrial insect-processing plant in Europe, the companies say.