Trends & Business

The new deal will see PureCircle supply Merisant with ingredients made from next-generation steviol glycosides such as Rebaudioside M (Reb M).

According to the companies, the deal “will create a unique food ingredient manufacturing and distribution offering that marries Prinova’s renowned expertise with Nagase’s truly global footprint.”

There is an innovation gap in the children’s beverage space that can be filled with functional products, says Kerry.

Ingredion (Westchester, IL), has introduced two new pea-based ingredients for pet food to its portfolio as a result of its new joint venture with Verdient Foods announced last December to make pulse-based concentrates and flours.

At FDA’s highly anticipated public hearing on hemp cannabidiol (CBD) today, May 31, the message from dietary supplement industry representatives was clear: The supplement industry needs a regulatory pathway for CBD-and needs it now.

A gluten-free, clean label, and vegan ingredient, XanFlax can be used as a non-GMO replacement for xanthan gum, without sacrificing flavor and quality, says the firm.

The number of new products worldwide using stevia grew more than 31% in 2018, reports the leading stevia producer PureCircle (Chicago, IL), based on data collected by Mintel Group Ltd.

Food and drink formulators are leveraging the health benefits of probiotics, prebiotics-and, increasingly, both together as synbiotics.

CBD may be the hottest ingredient on the block, but don’t overlook hemp’s other promising cannabinoids, including cannabigerol (CBG), cannabichromene (CBC), and cannabinol (CBN). This article discusses exciting avenues of product development for manufacturers looking to work with a wider range of cannabinoids, as well as the challenges that remain.

Gnosis by Lesaffre is making the case for using folate in sports nutrition supplements. 

Wixon has relaunched Mag-nifique, positioning it as a portfolio of custom flavor modifiers. 

The definition of a dietary substance in FDA's New Dietary Ingredient draft guidance differs greatly from the definition of a dietary ingredient under DSHEA, the actual law governing supplements.

Fruitlift is a real-fruit based sweetening solution designed to replace refined sugar in RTE cereals. 

The biggest shift in multivitamin thinking involves meeting consumers where they are-in their lifestyles and their life stages.

The sports nutrition market was going strong even before casual competitors started swelling its ranks, but weekend warriors have surely added to the gains.

The Trump Administration and U.S. Trade Representative have opened an exclusion process for List 3 China 301 tariffs, which encompass many ingredients used in the natural products industry. 

How to position your plant-based product for mainstream success

Solabia Group has acquired Algatech Ltd. for an undisclosed sum.

One CEO writes about how blockchain technology is the key to addressing the complexity of today’s global dietary supplement supply chain.

The mill's enhancements will directly support The Annex by Ardent Mills, a business unit dedicated to specialty grains and plant-based ingredients. 

The Kunigal, and Dobaspet units in Bengaluru, India, and the Hyderabad unit in Telangana state, India have been audited by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and received GMP compliance certificates.

Nutraceuticals Group has acquired the exclusive rights to offer the patent-pending Spanish ingredient H2OSlim to the U.S., Canadian, and Korean supplement manufacturing markets. 

Dietary supplement industry leaders and consumer advocacy groups turned out in force at a hotly anticipated public meeting with FDA last week to discuss federal regulation of dietary supplements.

A look at herbal beauty ingredients, from turmeric to CBD.

Like the cavemen who inspired the diet, will paleo eventually go extinct?

OmegaQuant’s Omega-3 Index and Prenatal DHA test kits are now registered in the European Union as in vitro medical devices and CE-marked.

BLIS M18 is the second oral-health probiotic strain from Blis Technologies and its North American distributor Stratum Nutrition.

Supplement products brand Reserveage Nutrition has rolled out a brand-new delivery format for its collagen line: Collagen Candy.

What can this rare sugar do that other alternative sweeteners can’t?

Herbs and botanicals, in general, have been making their way into the joint health category, says Innova Market Insights, whose research shows a 25% average annual growth of bone and joint supplements that used botanicals between 2014 and 2018.