Marie Redding

Natural product companies talk ingredient choices.

The cranberry expert is unlocking a new ingredient market category: metabolic syndrome.

This consultancy guides companies through the international regulatory arena.

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

Megan Westgate leads the nonprofit Non-GMO Project, whose reach is growing.

The company’s newly published method for analyzing flavanols and procyanidins in cocoa-based products may soon benefit the natural product industry, as well as consumers.

This year’s achievements include a new line of natural colors.

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

Customers get a greater variety of plant products, thanks to this Canadian firm.

Portable packaging is popular for benefits beyond convenience alone.

Can natural and organic ingredients help us depart from some of the beauty industry’s synthetic staples?

Faced with regulatory, budgetary, and other challenges, contract manufacturers are making it work.

Consumers want beauty products that are both natural and effective. The ingredients industry is responding.

Is the dietary supplements industry waiting to embrace greener plastics?

Consumer awareness, innovation, and the desire to meet certification standards are a trifecta driving growth in the natural and organic beauty market.

 PycnogenolPycnogenol is the branded name for an extract sourced from the bark of the French maritime pine tree. It is supplied exclusively by Natural Health Science (Hoboken, NJ) in North America, and by Horphag Research (Geneva), the exclusive worldwide supplier of the ingredient. Pine bark extract is regarded as a powerful antioxidant, containing highly concentrated amounts of bioflavonoids and active compounds.

Nutritional ingredients are now commonly touted in topically applied cosmetics, while dietary ingredients are being marketed in ingestible beauty products-many of which claim to deliver skin care benefits.