Trends & Business

Ardent Mills has officially acquired substantially all the business assets of Firebird Artisan Mills, a gluten-free, specialty grain and pulse milling company.

OmegaQuant has launched a new vitamin B12 test, with a sample collection kit that allows for at-home testing.

The formula is uses soluble fibers, monk fruit, and select botanicals; it delivers optimal sweetening capacity without the need for masking agents and does not leave any lingering aftertastes.

The demand for nootropics will continue to surge—but trying to formulate and market brain health supplements that will appeal across all these age groups doesn’t make sense in 2021. Supplement brands that take the time to understand each generational cohort’s particular challenges, needs, and life circumstances will make all the difference in terms of product success.

Stratum Nutrition and its Indian partner, Zenova Bionutrition Pvt. Ltd., were granted pre-market approval of its NEM brand partially hydrolyzed chicken eggshell membrane powder from the Food Safety Standards Authority of India

Its benefits include improved homogeneity of the powder, high stability, especially with mineral complexes, and the ability for formulas to keep a short and unchanged list of ingredients without additives.

NOW shows how an industry leader can expose bad products in the dietary supplement market, raise public awareness, and make a difference.

With the discovery and commercialization of what may be a new essential fatty acid, Seraphina Therapeutics is poised to become a leader in developing scientifically substantiated nutritional solutions.

BAPP’s crucial mission, warning the botanicals market about adulteration, reaches its 10th year.

Leader in the small, but growing, plant-based seafood space, Good Catch Foods is making the category more accessible through its aggressive expansion into food service.

Health Canada has approved an amendment to a Controlled Drugs and Substances Dealer’s License the agency issued to Nutrasource Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Services earlier this year.

Cosun Beet Company, Ingredion Inc., Matsutani Chemical Industry, and Samyang Corp. have formed a new consortium designed to help bring allulose to the European Union and United Kingdom, and support its nutritional labeling as a carbohydrate.

Once the program is complete, Beneo will have increased its capacity by more than 40%.

Here’s what analysts say to expect of healthy drinks as consumers return to their normal schedules post-pandemic.

Through this event, Balchem is seeking innovative technologies, ingredients, and products that can be used with or incorporated into its product line offering—including cognition, sleep, performance, and plant-based solutions.

U.S. Patent #11,147,850, titled: “Synergistic Composition For Osteoarthritis” was awarded in late October.

Global leader of caramel colors for the food and beverage industries, Sethness Roquette, has selected IMCD US Food & Nutrition as the exclusive U.S. distributor of its caramel colors effective Jan. 1, 2022. 

Arla Foods Ingredients introduced a patented method, milk fractionation, that separates milk into its different protein components.

To maintain skin health, brands need to treat causes instead of symptoms.

CK Ingredients is collaborating with The Protein Brewery to commercialize Fermotein in key human nutrition categories such as bakery products, extruded snacks, and breakfast foods.

The manufacturing plant, which will be located in Aurangabad in Maharashtra will produce 40 billion capsules per year.

The combination of KSM-66 with Glanbia's NutraShield Technology will provide functional and application dosage improvements.

Florida Food Products is assuming majority ownership of Comax Flavors from the Calabretta family, which will maintain an ownership stake in the business going forward.

Top social media and digital tools dietary supplement and natural product companies need to use to grow their business in 2022.

The future of fiber ingredients looks bright.

BGG World and its subsidiary Algae Health Sciences (AHS) published a list of 1,200 studies showing the 10 clinically validated health benefits of astaxanthin as well as its emerging benefits with the hope of furthering industry and consumer knowledge.

PLT Health Solutions partnered with a carbon-reduction and offset organization, Carbonfund.org Foundation, Inc., and received Carbonfree-partner designation.

Solabia-Algatech Nutrition introduced a multi-blend AstaPure Max, which is centered around its Astapure Arava whole-algae astaxanthin complex, designed to reduce post-exercise muscle pain and fatigue.

Collactive Collagen Complex, a 100% marine-based ingredient of collagen and elastin peptides, received non-GMO verification from The Non-GMO Project.

Roquette launched a ready-to-use, pharmaceutical-grade solution, called Lycagel Premix, for vegetarian softgel capsule formulation using the company’s pea starch technology.