Trends & Business

What do millennials look for when buying functional foods and dietary supplements?

Beverages, especially carbonated soft drinks, will be the key market out the gate, Cargill says.

Suppliers continue to hone delivery systems to meet consumer demand for better performance and ease of use. Here are just a few examples of new applications we saw at SupplySide West.

Brain health will be one of 2016’s hottest topics, judging by what suppliers unveiled at SupplySide West.

Omega-3 suppliers are now taking omega-3 concentrates for dietary supplements into near-pharmaceutical territory with concentrations up to 90%, including the first high-concentrate algae oil on the market.

The new 42N-80S ribbon blender from Charles Ross & Son Co. offers customizable features and a maximum working capacity of 80 cu ft.

New data from Euromonitor International suggests the European yogurt market has been crushed by restrictions on probiotic health claims.

Glanbia’s HarvestPro Pea Protein 83EF offers reduced bitter green pea notes, according to sensory trials.

Sublime contains phospholipids, choline, omega-3 PUFAs, and astaxanthin.

ENI has signed a licensing agreement for a new patented method of producing glucosamine through a microbial fermentation process.

The new facility in Kerepes, Hungary will support production of Flavorchem’s liquid, powdered, and spray-dried products.

As natural colors become less of an option and more of a requirement for any health-conscious marketing campaign, what are the biggest challenges of making the switch away from synthetic?

Four trends identified as most influential in the pharma space-emerging markets, consolidation, upstream services, and company differentiation-are also shaping contract manufacturing as it pertains to natural products.

As the natural products industry evolves and matures, scientific research is taking an increasingly prominent role in not only product development but also marketing and branding.

Testing techniques such as UHPLC, HRAM-MS, and NMR provide complementary information to uncover adulteration.

These nutraceutical tablet press, softgel encapsulation, and checkweigher machines are better, faster...smarter.

Ask the expert: Nutraceutical manufacturers, here are five ways to obtain the equipment you need, when you need it.

One company’s choice to bring manufacturing in house...and the equipment-buying decisions involved. Plus, an expert outlines your equipment options.

The patent covers a group of indolealkylamino-withasteroid conjugates isolated from Ashwagandha.

China leads the way, but who is next in line?

Energy drinks have continued to exhibit good growth rates in recent years, even against the backdrop of an overall relatively static soft drinks market.

Revenues for functional dairy beverages may double in the next decade, according to a new report.

Probiotics Workshop guest speaker Sunita Kumar gave us a birds’-eye view of what we can expect from the emerging microbiome sphere moving forward.

The company has partnered with Carlisle Precision Machining (Napma, ID).

Make your nutrition industry website mobile friendly for $100 or less.

Deciding whether or not to go non-GMO? Here are five points to consider.

For the 11th year straight, herbal supplement sales were up, according to the annual HerbalGram report.

The equipment company added 30,000 sq. ft of manufacturing space and increased staffing at its facility in Wuxi, China.