Robby Gardner

Chia seeds are finding a home in U.S. baked goods.

Suppliers are going GRAS in preparation for a new era and new formats.

Get to know your grasses-because grass ingredients are sprouting up everywhere.

Future ingredients for oral care.

How a non-food application is taking all the guar gum business.

Nondigestible polysaccharides are on the verge of something big.

A USDA-proposed rule would clarify which synthetic ingredients can be added to organic food and infant formula.

A year's worth of research on today's leading heart health ingredients.

In Canada, the issue with caffeinated energy drinks is about more than just alcohol.

Dealing with today’s threats of product contamination and degradation.

Ingredient suppliers are increasingly advancing tea compounds outside of the cup.

Are you willing to lose out to a competitor product because your product was lacking calcium by a few percentage points?

Three years since achieving FDA GRAS status, the market for stevia is maturing quickly.

Can fiber be a front for fat?

A closer look at natural ingredients for sex health.

Modern research is gaining on the health benefits of chocolate and cocoa.

Monk Fruit: Natural sweetening’s newest player.

Ingredients, dietary supplements, and functional foods and beverages from Israel.

Functional ingredients to distinguish your nutrition bar from the bunch.

Pet ingredients for overall health and common conditions.

As manufacturers and consumers begin flocking towards stevia, masking that bitterness with natural flavors appears to be the most pragmatic approach.

Enzymes for milk digestion, sports performance, and other functions.

A look at today’s options in a growing omega-3 market.

Baking a product with texture and taste, minus the gluten.

Through a range of tactics, nutritional ingredients are helping consumers guard their immune health.

If you manufacture a product with phytosterols, beware. A series of recent regulatory developments is giving the health claim a face lift.

A look at the positives and negatives of conventional solvents and organic non-chemical solvents.

There’s more to vitamin K than meets the eye.

Whether or not you’ve experienced a UTI, the symptoms aren’t very fun. Here’s a tried-and-true natural ingredient for UTIs: the cranberry.

Nine in 10 Americans eat too much salt, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So what’s being done to change this?