Vitamins & Minerals

Kerry’s Niamh Hunt discusses the role of consumer demographics in the functional food and beverage markets.

Brand leaders in the supplements and foods space explain how they are delivering products to de-stress—and delight—their customers.

The company’s Lustriva nutricosmetic ingredient, which just gained Generally Recognized as Safe status, has been shown to be 40 times more bioavailable than the biotin ingredients typically on the market, the firm says.

The clinical trial showed significant benefits from a combination of vitamin K2 and vitamin D supplementation on coronary artery calcification (CAC).

Long-chain menaquinones like vitamin K2 MK-7 can present stability challenges, the company says.

Prepare for it with your nutrition choices now, writes author, professor, and Cleveland Clinic’s Michael F. Roizen, MD.

The vitamin K2 MK-7 ingredient has been studied in 10 human clinical trials, including studies on bioavailability, bone health, and heart health.

The company, which specializes in producing ingredients using precision fermentation and enzymatic bioconversion, says its process can produce any long-chain menaquinone, including 6, 7, 8, and 9.

The ingredient combines inulin, the company’s newly launched OptiXOS xylo-oligosaccharide prebiotic fiber, and magnesium.

The ingredient is 100% fully reacted, chelated, and non-buffered, the firm says.

The company says K2Vital MCT Organic is the “first USDA organic–certified, all-trans, all-bioactive vitamin K2 MK-7 for oil-based health applications to the U.S. market.”

The ingredient is delivered in the company’s Matrix technology that protects particles of MK-7 without coating, additives, or additional ingredients.

According to the monograph, palm oil tocotrienols and tocopherols consist mainly of a mixture of alpha-, beta-, and gamma-tocotrienols and alpha-tocopherol derived from the oil from the mesocarp of fruits of Elaeisguineensis Jacq.

The parternship's first launch will be a vitamin D concept under MHN’s brand Selex, powered by Hologram Science’s d.velop holistic immunity platform.

Sexual dysfunctions are commonplace, but there are nutraceuticals that can help.

A subgroup analysis of the Aortic Valve Decalcification Trial (AVADEC study) observed that vitamin K2 MK-7 (720 µg/day) and D (25 µg/day) supplementation for two years helped slow the progression of coronary plaque development in individuals at high risk of developing coronary artery calcification

FerriUp supports active women who experience depleted iron and energy levels.

Going forward, growth will rest on moving minerals beyond the body basics to fulfilling consumer expectations for condition-specific ingredient combinations, increased bioavailability, and new delivery methods.

NPA submitted comments offering input to the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health on how to address nutrition and health integration.

Results showed that supplementation with the cocoa extract did not have a significant effect on global cognition, but relative to placebo, multivitamin mineral supplementation did provide significant benefit for global cognition.

The studies did not find a reduction in COVID-19 incidence after vitamin D supplementation, but a successful vaccination rollout may have impacted the results of the study.

The average time to achieve maximum levels in plasma following supplementation with the sustained release tablet was about 4.5 hours compared to the two to three hours seen in immediate-release formulations.

Dubbed the VETA Trial (Vitamin D, K2 plus Empagliflozin combination in Type Two Diabetes Mellitus), the six-month prospective, randomized, controlled, open-label, multicenter trial will be conducted in collaboration with the University of Health Sciences Lahore (Pakistan) and the Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine.

The company operates according to cGMPs under 21 CFR part 111 and part 117, with an FDA-compliant fulfillment facility in Reno, NV.

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