Trends & Business

By leading the charge on carbon-dating curcumin, the supplier is helping to guard the natural-curcumin supply chain from adulteration. 

The snacks brand led the way on several key regulatory fronts this year, including successfully petitioning FDA to reevaluate its definition of the term "healthy." 

Congratulations to our 2016 Best of the Industry Award Winners: The Council for Responsible Nutrition, the Botanical Adulterants Program, Sabinsa Corp., and KIND.

Superfruits may not be as trendy as they were ten years ago, but market experts share five key strategies for keeping the category ripe.

The new PurGinger organic ginger extract and Pur-C organic vitamin C extract are uniquely suited for beverage applications, AFS says.

GOED has released its third consumer infographic, which covers the different benefits of EPA, DHA, and ALA omega-3s.

Pharmachem Laboratories is now measuring its probiotic products with flow cytometry, a method than it says is faster, less expensive, and more accurate than traditional plating.

Lesaffre Human Care says its new Lynside ProteYn line of yeast proteins offers a competitive nutritional profile to proteins from dairy and plant sources.

The new mixer is designed for powder dispersion for liquid, emulsification, and homogenization applications.

The ingredients supplier has added six new “trending ingredients” to its line of botanical ingredients and extracts.

Under the new agreement for joint development and commercialization, Cellana will supply Piveg with algae from its Kona, Hawaii facility, which Piveg will use in its existing processing equipment and facilities in Mexico.

Innova Market Insights shares its top trends to watch in 2017, including personalized nutrition, sweetening without added sugars, ethnic cuisines, plant-based ingredients, clean-label products, and more.

Dairy-free food and drinks are growing fast. Here’s where.

Pylopass, a digestive-health ingredient made from inactivated Lactobacillus reuteri cells, enters the U.S. market for the first time this month under the Life Extension brand.

Presenters at Nutritional Outlook’s recent webcast, “Protein and Sports Nutrition,” shared their take on what shifting consumer preferences mean for the booming sports nutrition category.

New IRI sales figures show Walmart and club stores are experiencing the most growth in supplement sales.

Glanbia Nutritionals launches two new flaxseed sprouted seed ingredients that are heat-treated for enhanced safety and purity.

Hyperbiotics (Henderson, NV) released its new PRO-Pets formula, an “ultra-tiny,” beef-flavored tablet for dogs and cats that combines six probiotic strains.

Bergstrom Nutrition’s branded MSM ingredient now carries the ISO 9001:2015 certification.

Natural colors’ biggest opportunities likely lie in kid-centric products, cereals, and snacks.

Market researcher IRI shares new data on the top-selling nutritional brands, manufacturers, and product claims from the past year.

Consumer demand for natural and clean-label is driving natural sweeteners like stevia. But there’s still lots of opportunity for growth.

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) agreed last week to establish a sizable marine protected area in Antarctica’s Ross Sea.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) has raised the annual harvest quota for Atlantic menhaden fish meal/oil by 6.45% for fisheries and bait fisheries.

The supplements manufacturer pegs strain-specific probiotic identification, adaptogens, vegan products, and more as innovation trends to watch in 2017.

Applied Food Science has launched its new Kavoa kava extract for the relaxation, stress-relief, and sleep-support markets.

In North America, sales of probiotic supplements will outpace sales of all other kinds of supplements, including glucosamine, combination dietary supplements, protein supplements, CoQ10, omega-3s, and eye-health supplements, says Euromonitor.

Beta testing of the dietary supplement finished product registry has now entered its second phase, with CRN planning to make the site live in 2017.