Protein

Nutralys L85M allows customers to create plant-based meats with a lower salt content. 

Contract manufacturers share trends they see based on what’s made in their facilities.

Collagen can be used in bone health, joint health, nutricosmetic, cosmetic, and even sports nutrition products.

How the U.S.-China trade war continues to change the playing field for players international and domestic.

Tyson Foods Inc. has announced the creation of the Coalition for Global Protein, a multi-stakeholder initiative for the advancement of sustainable protein. 

Corteva Agriscience, Bunge, Botaneco, and Protein Industries Canada announced a joint investment of more than $27 million to improve the protein content of Canadian canola. 

A brief look at some fast-growing markets for dietary supplements

Strategic industry investors included Greenleaf Foods, and 301 INC, the venture arm of General Mills.

The agreement significantly increases the amount of pea protein to be supplied by Roquette to Beyond Meat over the next three years, compared to the amount supplied in 2019. 

2019’s most unexpected supplement ingredient sales trends, according to SPINS

It’s the question on everyone’s minds: Will demand for plant protein plateau anytime soon?

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Independent third-party laboratory testing has confirmed that the water lentil crop and branded plant-based protein ingredient Lentein, from Parabel USA Inc., contains the natural bioactive forms of vitamin B12: adenosylcobalamin and methylcobalamin. 

Roquette (La Madeleine, France) is launching two new plant-based textured proteins in order to address consumer demand for sensory, diversity, and sustainable nutritional improvements.

Roquette Ventures and Advanced Protein Technologies, a bio venture company developing human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), have signed an agreement to work together on the development of new human breast milk components. 

In Nutritional Outlook's 2019 Best of the Industry Awards, we are recognizing individuals, groups, and companies whose initiatives today may help shape, for the better, the state of the dietary supplement and food and beverage industries for years to come.

Perfect Day is offering consumers and companies a new choice: non-animal, flora-based dairy protein.

Merit Functional Foods announced that it has received a Letter of No Objection from FDA in response to a GRAS (generally recognized as safe) notification for its pea protein ingredients. 

Adding critical cofactors, including magnesium, collagen, and vitamin K2, to current nutritional recommendations for bone health could go a long way towards helping to reduce the occurrence of osteoporosis and related disorders.

Axiom Foods Inc. has signed a domestic distribution agreement with Univar Solutions, as well as international distribution agreements with Univar Solutions Brazil, Brenntag Food and Nutrition, and Healy Group.

Market researcher IRI provided its insight on which retail channels for dietary supplements are growing, or shrinking, at CRN’s The Conference.

With more U.S. adults taking dietary supplements than ever before, continued consumer confidence in the safety, quality, and efficacy of supplements will remain of utmost importance to those with stakes in the industry.

Here, we look at some of the positive and negative comments.

Plant-based ingredients are transforming the meat-analogue category.

Kerry rolled out new plant protein ingredients at SupplySide West 2019 that are designed to be easier for formulators to work with.

“While whey protein fractions aren’t necessarily a new discovery, the ways in which they’re being used and their known benefits are both expanding,” one expert says.

Sports nutrition products are expanding upon the benefits they deliver, the means by which they deliver them, and the consumers whom they target.

While plant proteins have been trending, dairy proteins and isolates remain competitive within the protein bar space, specifically within sports nutrition.

Flavor is always a challenging piece of the formulation puzzle due to the unpleasant notes that active ingredients can impart.

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