The People’s Republic of China recently approved omega-3 fish oil and fish oil powder as Novel Food Ingredients in food and beverages for consumers of all ages, according to Ocean Nutrition Canada (ONC; Dartmouth, NS), the supplier of MEG-3 brand omega-3 EPA/DHA food and dietary supplements.
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Consumers ranked omega-3 as their number-one supplement of choice-even over multivitamins-in ConsumerLab's 2010 vitamin survey. That's good news for the omega-3 industry.
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Consumers are still buying supplements. This year, expect shoppers to continue focusing on immune health, gluten free, cognitive health, joint health, eye health, digestive health, and weight management. Below are a few ingredients the industry will be keeping its eye on.
Only three more years until the federal government's National Eye Institute (NIH; Bethesda, MD) releases the results of its landmark Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS2). The study-a multicenter, randomized, five-year trial involving 4000 participants-is expected to finish in December 2012.
In May, Datamonitor reported that growth of the nutricosmetics market may be slowing, perhaps due to the recession. Some consumers, the report said, may view beauty-from-within products as a luxury. While new beauty beverages continue to launch, other types of nutricosmetics may not fare as well, said Datamonitor, citing the failure of Danone's Essensis skin-nourishing yogurt as an example.
Natural Vitamin E Products May Be Synthetic
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA; Parma, Italy) has suggested new levels of recommended daily consumption of omega-3’s to the European Commission (EC; Brussels).
Let's face facts. Consumers have had a miserable time staying on top of nutrition trends. First, fats were the root of all diet evil, then carbs, then sugar, then artificial sweeteners, then dairy products, then some proteins, then bread, and on and on. Give consumers a lot of credit for not completely surrendering the fight to eat healthy.
Americans, like most people, like eating snacks. According to the International Food Information Council's 2008 Food & Health Survey, nearly all Americans, or 94% of survey participants, eat at least one snack per day.
XSTO Solutions (Morristown, NJ) and Brudy Technology (Barcelona, Spain) have jointly announced a new sales and marketing distribution agreement between the two companies to market Algatrium, Brudy’s patented source of DHA.
Consumers Not Responding to Probiotic Cheese
In a new report, "Omega Fatty Acids: Trends in the Worldwide Food and Beverage Markets, 2nd Edition," market research publisher Packaged Facts estimates that the omega fatty acid global market grew 36% between 2007 and 2008.