Trends & Business
2015 Flavor Trends for Food and Beverage
As manufacturers begin formulating anew in 2015, note the year’s predicted flavor trends, courtesy of leading flavor houses.
New Equipment Advances Make Better Dietary Supplements, Foods, and Beverages
Two equipment developers announced recent upgrades that dietary supplement and healthy food/beverage manufacturers will appreciate.
Nutritional Outlook's Best of 2014
Nutritional Outlook's editors and readers choose the industry's best companies and organizations in 2014.
Doctors and Dietary Supplements: Using, Recommending, Selling
The relationship between practitioners and the dietary supplement industry grows stronger.
Dietary Supplement Packaging: The Power of Graphics
Good graphic design is crucial as dietary supplement and healthy food and beverage brands vie for attention.
Smart Dietary Supplement Marketing: Leverage Both Ingredient Suppliers and Retailers
Collaboration is the name of the natural products game, with you-the product marketer-quarterbacking the campaign.
Broccoli Antioxidant Market to Grow, Brassica Predicts
The company announced it has renewed an exclusive, worldwide patent license with Johns Hopkins University.
Is There a Risk in Premix Overages?
Nutrients can degrade during a product’s shelf life, but are some manufacturers adding too much overage?
SupplySide West: Sabinsa’s Pet Ingredients Leverage Firm’s Expertise, Research
While Sabinsa invests heavily in human-nutrition research, VetVitals research will specifically target animal health.
Stevia Nutrients Could Play Into Future Market
Compounds in stevia can do more than just sweeten.
Asia Pacific Ripe for Health and Wellness Market
Emerging markets like Asia Pacific are the real opportunities in health and wellness.
Omega-3 Market Struggle
Behind the current omega-3 market decline
Today's Biggest Nutraceutical and Food Mixing Challenges: Hard-to-Disperse Powders and Shear-Sensitive Ingredients
Make sure you (or your manufacturing partners) are using the right mixing equipment, in both the short- and long-term.
USCHPA Adds Value with Market Research
A partnership with Euromonitor will give USCHPA members access to Chinese market research.
Equipment for Controlling Food Contamination
Protecting the workplace gets easier with modern accessories for health product manufacturing.
Which Testing Technologies Are the Most Cost-Efficient for Your Dietary Supplement Company?
Choosing the right testing techniques while still keeping an eye on the bottom line.
Beyond Testosterone: Men’s Health and Dietary Supplements
Keeping aging men healthy takes more than just addressing testosterone. Why supplements are a more holistic approach.
Fermentation-Derived Stevia Getting Closer to Market
In late June, ingredients giant DSM announced it is preparing to add fermentation-derived stevia to its platform.
Fruit d’Or Sells Non-GMO Cranberry Ingredients
The company may be the first cranberry processor with non-GMO certification.
New Algae Player in the Market
The company says its natural, sun-grown chlorella is grown near Lisbon.
St. Jude Looks to Natural Products Research for Children’s Cancer
Ingredients supplier ChromaDex will make its extensive ingredient library available to St. Jude for research.
Neptune Opens Krill Oil Plant with Improvements
A handful of services at this new plant could stir up the krill oil market.
FDA Approves Three More Omega-3 Drugs. Is This Good or Bad News for Supplements?
Pharma and supplement are both fishing from the same supply pool now.
Gluten Is an Expensive Ingredient These Days
“Over the past seven years, the price of gluten has risen,” says ingredients supplier Corbion Caravan.
Naturex Acquires Vegetable Ingredients Supplier
The move will give Naturex more capabilities in upstart vegetable product categories such as savory juices.
How to Create Ingredient Monographs
When does an ingredient merit a public standard (monograph)?
EU Firms See Opportunity in U.S. Regulations: Vitafoods Feedback
With so much ongoing confusion and frustration surrounding EFSA's health-claims process, the U.S. is looking mighty attractive these days.
Ingredient Marketplace 2014: What to Expect
Why the name change? Because this show is all about the ingredients.
Do Gluten Haters Know What Gluten Is? Funny Jimmy Kimmel Video
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” hit the L.A. streets to find out which gluten-avoiders know what gluten actually is.
FDA, Social Media, and Health Claims
Are supplement companies responsible for the health claims its customers make in social media?