Joint & Bone Health

A look at several dietary supplements that should be on the radars of health care practitioners.

A new testing method can determine if your glucosamine ingredient is derived from shellfish or a vegetable source.

Joint health has yet to steer away from supplements.

The new name is reflected on the ingredient logo and is available for use on licensed product labels and marketing materials immediately.

Joint Juice has acquired Premier Nutrition Inc., a marketer of high-protein nutrition products.

Timing of protein consumption around exercise may be the key to preserving muscle mass in the elderly.

Bergstrom claims to offer the only MSM ingredients with Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status.

Horphag Research Nutrition will focus on function food and beverage development with Pycnogenol.

As a premier MSM specialist, Bergstrom maintains ISO 9001:2008 quality management, FDA GRAS status, and FSSC22000 registration.

The ingredient provides a daily dose of 40 mg of undenatured type II collagen.

New ingredients and technologies to quench the thirst for beverage innovation.

FutureCeuticals says that part of the research will focus on differentiating calcium fructoborate from other boron-based compounds and borate complexes.

The ingredient is touted for male energy and bone health.

Of note, numerous health claims submitted for soy isoflavones were rejected.

Ingredient broker New Products Plus will represent ingredients by Stratum Nutrition and ESM Technologies in the Utah health and nutrition market.

NSF International’s NSF Certified for Sport program has certified two joint-health supplements featuring ESM Technologies’ (Carthage, MO) eggshell-derived ingredients.

Through a partnership with Core Health Products (Mesa, AZ), ESM Technologies (Carthage, MO) is bringing its eggshell and eggshell membrane ingredients into the sports supplement market.

ESM Technologies has partnered with CK Nutritional Ingredients to distribute patented eggshell ingredient.

The company has redesigned its U.S. website, as well as launched a brand new website for the Canadian market.

Jamieson’s once-a-day joint-support formula Collagen Glucosamine Complex provides 40 mg of UC-II, an undenatured type II collagen.

Supplemental chondroitin sulfate was found to significantly reduce the cartilage volume loss in patients with knee osteoarthritis in as little as six months into treatment

Research published in the journal Bone links dietary intake of vitamin K to improvements in several bone health markers in the elderly.

The company will collaborate with Southeast Asia research institutions in a dairy study on 16,000 children.

Following the IOM’s latest report, brands are raising levels of vitamin D and calcium.

Danisco (Copenhagen) is strengthening its position in the vitamin K2 market through a new partnership with synthetic vitamin k2 supplier Kappa Bioscience AS (Oslo, Norway).