Sports & Energy

To survive scrutiny and ensure a healthy future, energy drinks must court the responsible consumer. This requires formulating wisely.

National Enzyme Co. mixes enzymes with antioxidants and minerals for exercise recovery.

Bioenergy Life Science develops new prototypes for formulating with ribose.

The newest members are sports nutrition consultant Dave Ellis, RD, CSCS, and Joy Dubost, PhD, RD.

HMB can enhance the recovery of skeletal muscle damage in both trained and untrained individuals.

Creatine MagnaPower is a patented technology for chelating creatine with magnesium.

Human amino acid responses from soy and canola protein appear comparable.

Researchers also pointed out that 11 supplements that listed an herbal ingredient naturally containing caffeine still did not label caffeine as an ingredient in the product.

Lonza points out that consumers’ intrinsic recognition of an ingredient and its benefits is ever more important, especially as use of health claims in the EU are somewhat limited for certain ingredients now.

Chemi Nutra describes AlphaSize as a “safe, natural, and rapidly absorbed form of choline..."

Krill oil, stevia, and caffeine are high-profile ingredients.

The Toronto Star says new caffeine limits are official and enforceable.

Cargill says further research is needed to understand from a metabolic perspective why sucromalt may provide these benefits, beyond its effects on postprandial glycemic response.

Samples were provided at a symposium for pro baseball strength and conditioning coaches.

Senators Durbin and Blumenthal finally got their meeting with FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg.

Certification indicates the company’s X2Performance supplement does not contain banned athletic substances.

Rocasuba Inc.'s Spot On Energy contains caffeine, tea extract, and zinc.

The firm’s ingredients are best known for mental performance and sports nutrition, but new patents are paving the way to new market opportunities.

This brown rice specialist branched out into other sources of plant-based proteins, among other significant accomplishments this year.

Chemi Nutra's new study may be the first of its kind.

At Health Ingredients Europe, ingredients supplier Naturex (Avignon, France) unveiled a new, healthier energy drink concept called Lift.

Lacprodan HYDRO.365 is a breakthrough whey protein that the company says for the first time enables companies to produce very-high-protein sports drinks that taste good.

FDA records show 166 AERs connected to popular energy drinks in the last 9 years.

A recent study showed that patented methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) ingredient, OptiMSM, can support exercise recovery.

Muscle Milk’s new Evolve protein shake has launched featuring BASF’s Tonalin conjugated linoleic acid (CLA).