Trends & Business

DuPont launched culture portfolio designed for fermented plant-based products in South America to gain a share of the growing plant-based fermented food market there. 

Martin Bauer Group has acquired BI Nutraceuticals, expanding its food, beverage, and dietary supplement ingredient offerings. 

CVS will begin selling CBD topical products in its stores, but notably leaves out dietary supplement and functional foods. 

The sports nutrition industry is amidst a long-term growth trend unparalleled in recent consumer health history, writes Euromonitor International.

Nutralliance is now exclusive sales and marketing partner for South Korean Ildong Biosciences’ probiotic line in the U.S. and Canada. 

DuPont Nutrition & Health has reached an agreement with Lonza Specialty Ingredients in which Lonza will manufacture and supply CARE4U 2’-FL, a human milk oligosaccharide. 

Phynova has signed a global distribution and collaboration agreement for its Reducose ingredient with DSM.

One CBD firm talks about the current CBD supply landscape, both foreign and domestic, as well as sourcing challenges.

Future brain health products must address not only mood and cognition, but also our taxed and increasingly attenuated attention spans.

Practical Innovations explains its approach to developing products from food waste, and encourages other firms to do the same. 

There is no singular sports nutrition shopper today. For sports nutrition brands, this fact is as exciting as it is challenging.

Sports drinks consumers are continuing to drive market change through an increased interest in healthier, more natural products.

Lycored will be developing a new formulation combining its Lycomato lycopene with omega-3 fatty acids. 

Here’s a sampling of recent supplement production equipment launches that prove the future is now.

Fruit d'Or, a supplier of standardized cranberry juice powder and extracts, wants to bring accountability to the category by testing the products of other suppliers and make consumers and manufacturers aware of the inconsistency in quality across the category.

NSF to provide interim gap audits for GRMA standards while it awaits full accreditation. 

Tech startup Inspecto Ltd. is working on a portable contaminant-testing device for real time results, a potentially disruptive product if accurate. 

The beauty-from-within market is growing up.

Chicory root fiber’s versatility and health halo benefit a variety of food and beverage applications.

Within five years, the company aims to have 50% of its product portfolio for cosmetics composed of “new ingredients and solutions that do not yet exist.”

Corteva Agriscience, agriculture division of DowDuPont, and ZeaKal have begun a strategic research and development collaboration to advance ZeaKal’s innovative technology designed to improve seed quality and yield. 

One in four consumers surveyed support banning meat-related words on plant-based products. Most of those are vegans. 

Beneo has opened a new production plant for vegetal protein in Wanze, Belgium, an investment of €4.3 million ($5.5 million). 

Kerry has released a report called “Proactive Health: Consumer Demand for Functional Benefits.” 

The private-label program includes such flagship ingredients as LJ100 tongkat ali, ParActin Andrographis paniculata, Bergamonte citrus bergamot, and MaquiCare maqui berry extract.

Informed-Choice is a quality-assurance certification for sports nutrition products.

The mixer/reactor is especially designed to suit temperature-critical formulations of medium to high viscosity under stringent vacuum/pressure constraints.

OmegaQuant Analytics is offering free Omega-3 Index tests at Natural Products Expo West booth #4568 where they are colocated with Wiley’s Finest. 

The single-use format makes it easy and convenient for consumers to carry their omega-3 supplements on the go.

The line from NP Nutra (Gardena, CA) includes adzuki bean, barley, broccoli, green pea, lentil, and radish.