Joint & Bone Health

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).

The company is expanding its CapsuDar vitamin D3 line.

Following the success of its vitamin K2 ingredient in Europe, Frutarom USA (North Bergen, NJ) has decided to supply its K2 ingredient, uniK2, for U.S. functional foods and supplements.

Cargill Inc. (Minneapolis) will showcase several new health products at the upcoming Natural Products Expo West and Supply Expos in Anaheim, California.

The company was recognized for its research and development activities that improve its customers’ return on investment in ingredients such as BioCell Collagen II.

Stratum Nutrition (St. Louis), a Novus International Inc. business, has been recognized with Nutrition Business Journal’s Business Achievement Award in the Investment in the Future category.

There’s more to vitamin K than meets the eye.

Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body. Bones and teeth comprise approximately 99% of total body calcium. The other 1% is distributed within cells and in the extracellular fluid. Although it may seem insignificant, this 1% must be carefully maintained in order for the body to carry out complex biochemical and physiological processes, including nerve conduction, muscle contraction, enzyme regulation, blood clotting, and control of blood pressure. Calcium Sources: Absorption and Bioavailability

A study was conducted on 100 osteoarthritis patients and a proprietary curcumin ingredient.

P.L. Thomas (Morristown, NJ) is now offering its U.S. and Canadian food and dietary supplement customers botanical extracts from French firm Burgundy Botanical Extracts.

The company's largest human study on BioCell Collagen II supports previous findings.