Sports & Energy

Following scientific review, Health Canada (the Canadian equivalent of FDA) is increasing its allowable daily intake of p-synephrine to 50 mg per day for healthy adults.

There was a period when European civilization existed without any access to caffeine-no coffee, no tea, and no cocoa. This era was known as the Dark Ages.

Ingredient suppliers are increasingly advancing tea compounds outside of the cup.

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

Biosteel Sports Supplements Inc. (Toronto) has earned NSF International "Certified for Sport" recognition for the company's high performance sports drink.

Food product classification will usher in new requirements for these products.

NP Nutra (Rancho Dominguez, CA) now offers a certified-organic wheatgrass juice ingredient under the company’s signature ingredients line.

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

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

For weight management, ingredient suppliers are talking satiety. Which ingredients fit the bill?

Bioenergy Life Science Inc. (Minneapolis) has announced U.S. triathlete couple Greg and Laura Bennett as the newest celebrity ambassadors of Bioenergy Ribose, a D-ribose ingredient for sports performance.

Jarrow’s new whey product is certified organic by CCOF and the USDA, and is derived from cows not treated with the growth hormone rBST.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is calling for data on the consumption of energy drinks by specific consumer groups.

Ingredients, dietary supplements, and functional foods and beverages from Israel.

Chemically known as D-ribose, ribose is a 5-carbon sugar (pentose) that is found in every cell in the body. Due to its chemical structure, it is not used by the body as a typical sugar, such as glucose (6-carbons)-meaning it is not metabolized via glycolysis, the biochemical pathway in which sugar is converted into energy. Ribose serves as the carbohydrate backbone of ribonucleic acid/RNA (as ribose) and of deoxyribonucleic acid/DNA (as deoxyribose), both of which are involved in cell growth and function.

Glisodin has shown to exhibit positive effects on selected inflammatory markers.

Wellmune WGP beta-glucan immune-health ingredient may enable recreational and elite athletes to exercise longer and harder, with less risk of the immune-system suppression that normally occurs following high-intensity exercise.

The line features seven products designed to let athletes customize their nutrition program based on their own demands.

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

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.

The agency’s has weighed in on 536 new claims.

Science in Sport Ltd. (SIS) is a marketer of such popular sports-nutrition products as PSP 22 carbohydrate powders, Rego recovery powders, and the Go range of sports-nutrition gels.

The company says EnerG is the first and only drink mix to provide ionic electrolytes from a full complex of ocean minerals, 74 to be exact, and in the same ratio as those found in the human body.

Together with an increased intake of carbohydrates, Lonza’s (Basel, Switzerland) Carnipure tartrate ingredient was shown to increase L-carnitine content in the muscles in recreational athletes.