Trends & Business

A bird's-eye view of 2013's promising health ingredients for dietary supplements and functional food/beverages.

What Difference Can a Year Make?

Could big business compromise with a law to label genetically modified organisms?

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More natural product and nutritional supplement companies are looking to get acquired or go public. What should companies keep in mind?

Elderly customers should be a prime target for food and supplement marketing.

When a multinational giant acquires a small independent, there will be some protest. But when the independent is a beloved natural-products company-and one that has cultivated its identity and loyal fan base around a mission of healing-expect protests to be louder.

From past to present, the market has been friendly to friendly bacteria.

“Adulterated supplements are illegal” is the message that dietary supplement associations are underlining.

The functional food and drink market is outpacing the conventional food and drink market in terms of global growth, by about 4% per year.

Dietary Supplements and China: Supply-Chain Woes. Who's to Blame?