Robby Gardner

Over the past several years, federal governments have shown increased interest in several natural ingredients believed to support optimal eye health. Largely by way of the Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 (AREDS2), federal support in the United States is giving eye health greater recognition than in years past.

Gum may not be the first thought that comes to mind as a nutritional delivery system, but it’s being considered more and more, these days.

    There’s more than one way of getting fiber into a bar. Below are a few fiber suppliers and their nutrition bar fiber lines.   Grain Processing Corp. (Muscatine, IA)

While fiber has a high place in the nutrition bar industry, there’s still room for a wealth of other functional ingredients-and new innovations are changing the market as we speak. Check out some of the notables.

Functional ingredients are commonly challenged by their delivery methods, as taste, ease of digestion, and even proper absorption can be serious obstacles. For these reasons, innovative delivery systems remain at the forefront of today’s nutrition.

If you live in Europe and eat meat, your diet may have experienced a slight change. You may have eaten cloned beef.

It’s time for another roundup of weight-management ingredients. As always, weight-management ingredients should best be considered in the presence of diet and lifestyle modifications.

Here’s a look at the trends currently championing nutrition bars and the bars that are executing them.

Here’s a look at some ingredients making moves in the sports market.

Aside from scientific ingredients that are still being innovated, there’s always room for a simpler product-if marketed correctly.

Up until July 13, the case for cultivating genetically modified organisms (GMOs) within the European Union (EU) was deadlocked: some member states support the practice (e.g., Spain and Britain), while others (e.g., Austria and France) have made moves against it.

Since the term superfruit was first coined, U.S. marketers have struggled to familiarize Western consumers with foreign-based superfruits. Some of these fruits have been marketed for a wealth of potential health benefits; yet American consumers, for the most part, still remain unacquainted with them.

When it comes to improving energy, dietary supplements tend to work in a familiar home: the mitochondrion. The so-called powerhouse of human cells is where the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) cycle occurs; without it, we would not convert food into energy, and our muscles and organs would not function properly.

While stevia takes its first steps into consumer food markets, a surge in functional beverages is perhaps most notable. Last month, FRS Healthy Energy (FRS; Foster City, CA) became the newest player to launch a drink sweetened with Stevia rebaudiana, and Nutritional Outlook caught up with the company to find out why it made the move.

Per usual, priorities in Washington are too numerous to count. But major legislation affecting the dietary supplement, food, and beverage industries has been waiting its turn. Here are some of the could-be laws awaiting votes in the Capitol. (As of July 2010)

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