Trends & Business

The second generation of USP’s Food Fraud Database includes added capabilities that make it easier for users to identify historical trends and vulnerabilities for food fraud.

The warnings span everything from products for hangover relief to picamilon-containing dietary supplements.

As natural products marketing firm BrandHive celebrates its 20th anniversary, co-founder Jeff Hilton talks about what’s changed in the natural products space.

Suppliers in just about every segment of the ingredients market face supply shortages from time to time. But flavor firms, in particular, have added challenges to deal with.

The new corn-derived starch can “accept high-quality imprintation, including shapes and letters” in confectionery and gummy applications, ADM says.

Two years ahead of FDA’s deadline to list added sugars on nutrition labels, KIND has posted the published the added sugar content of more than 60 of its products on its website.

Equity investments and acquisitions in the nutrition and health and wellness industry set records in 2015, but the industry is already on pace to set new records this year, Nutrition Capital Network reports.

It may be easy to think of fiber as a uniform category of ingredients, but is soluble fiber getting the attention it deserves?

At IFT 2016, dairy experts spoke about how the high-protein trend needs to extend to consumers young and old.

New consumer research from Lycored found that 88% of consumers said they would pay more for a flavored milk beverage made with natural flavorings and colors compared to an average flavored milk beverage.

Tate & Lyle and Beneo both unveiled new ingredients that meet the demands for label transparency while providing food formulators with rigorous performance and good sensory attributes.

Hemp CBD, cocoa flavanols, phosphatidylserine, and more made headlines in our most popular stories of the year so far.

Forget chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla! Sports nutrition products are exploring advanced, dessert-style flavors.

The USDA now has two years to hammer out details for implementing the federal GMO-disclosure law.

The Natural Products Association has launched a new database of more than 400 dietary supplement warning letters from FDA, as well as other regulatory enforcement actions taken since 2008.

Ganeden and Avoke will be working together to launch a new line of avocado-based smoothie bowls with probiotics.

PLT Health Solutions says its new PhytoShield technology delivers an anti-microbial preservative effect on par with many synthetic ingredients.

Everyone wants a piece of the growing plant protein market.

Kline Market Research reports that the market for natural OTC products, including dietary supplements, grew by 11.4% last year.

Rimfrost’s Sublime PL60 krill oil, which debuted last fall, features a phospholipid content of up to 60% and high levels of choline, astaxanthin, and omega-3 DHA and EPA.

Axiom Foods says the FDA-approved GRAS status of its Oryzatein rice protein ingredient will enhance its mainstream market potential.

Innova Market Insights reports that vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian consumers offer emerging opportunities for plant-based meat substitutes.

Sabinsa Corp. (East Windsor, NJ) has filed lawsuits against four ingredient companies for infringing upon its tetrahydrocurcuminoid patent.

Maxx Performance earned an “excellent” SQF Level 2 rating under the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).

The FTC accused Herbalife of misleading consumers by suggesting those consumers could earn significant income by selling Herbalife products when in fact most did not.

President Obama is expected to sign the legislation, which would nullify Vermont’s mandatory GMO-labeling law.

Emerging options push plant protein’s boundaries

Depending on pH, the new food color delivers a “vibrant red to purple hue” in applications including juice drinks, yogurt, salad dressing, and cereals.