New Blackmores CEO Richard Henfrey has pledged that the firm will look to move beyond selling 'bottles of pills', hinting that a more personalised nutrition approach featuring tests and value-added services could be an option.
A canned liquid supplement called Good Idea, formulated to be a ‘sugar buster,’ just hit the market. Its blood sugar management properties are backed by research out of the Food for Health Science Center at Lund University in Sweden.
Israeli flavour and fine ingredients firm Frutarom are now the owners of nutritional ingredients specialists Enzymotec in a €144m ($168m) deal for the remaining 81% of company shares.
Addressing persistent illness and deaths caused by foodborne diseases, California-based nutraceutical ingredients maker BI issued a statement urging the industry to demand for product-specific kill step validation procedures.
While vitamin and mineral powder, shots, gummies, and melts continue to pop up on store shelves, London-based Instavit is cornering the niche oral spray market.
Beverage startup Poppilu hopes its antioxidant lemonade can establish a strong foothold in the Midwest region where it sources its powerhouse ingredient for its lemonade products, the Aronia berry.
While energy, protein, and electrolytes have dominated the sports drink category, Austin-based Limited Labs is paving the way for exogenous ketone bodies in sports drinks.
Product quality, effectiveness and continual evolution: These are the three keys to e-commerce supplement success in China, according to Australian probiotic firm Evolution Health, which has recorded huge sales increases since entering the market in 2014.
Global food and nutrition firm Nestlé is looking to strengthen its position in the Russian infant formula market, in addition to supporting sport in the Eurasia region with its first infant nutrition production facility.
Pfizer announced that it is “reviewing strategic alternatives” for its Consumer Healthcare business, the parent company of many iconic over-the-counter (OTC) brands from dietary supplements to personal care.
Sports supplements retailer MyProtein have fallen foul of the Advertising Standards Authority rules over “misleading” claims the firm were offering discounts of up to 60% on items during a monthly sale.
The Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED) continues to commission key studies to support the quality and efficacy of omega-3 fatty acids, with recent meta-analyses of the health benefits starting to impact policy and regulatory conversations.
Consumers today associate the word ‘supplement’ with powders or beverages, more so than capsules, pills, tablets, and so forth, according to analyses of social media chatter by one marketing firm.
Vitamin manufacturer Swisse is throwing its weight behind the Australian government’s efforts to curb the country’s $8bn food waste burden by converting more local by-products and unwanted produce into supplement ingredients.
Rich with lactoferrin and immunoglobulins, a new product on the market will bring finished product makers a protein powder that is nutritionally closest to raw milk, its maker claims.
Singapore supermarket chain FairPrice has launched a house-brand low-cost infant formula range in the wake of consumer and government complaints about the rising cost of branded milk products.
LNC Therapeutics has raised €6.5m in a Series C funding round as the company announces a new chief science officer and steps up an ‘ambitious’ microbiota-orientated strategy that it hopes will drive an IPO by the end of 2019.
Microbiome firm Enterome will move its research laboratories to a French biocluster specialising in biotechnology, genomics and genetics, the firm said.
Danone has taken a minority stake in organic baby food maker Yooji via its investment arm Danone Manifesto Ventures (DMV). FoodNavigator catches up with Yooji and DMV to find out what benefits the tie-up brings.
Kyowa Hakko are to make available its citicoline supplement in the Scandinavian region giving its consumers a new way of boosting cognitive health via oral supplementation.
Technological advances are having a big impact on the APAC supplement and functional food industry, with the most innovative firms enjoying "a major boon” as more consumers go online for advice and to make purchases.
Ingredion has launched a new ingredient that will help finished product manufacturers “meet consumer demand for convenient, long-lasting energy in nutritional products,” according to the company.
A new collaboration between Indena, Hyris and the NHP Research Alliance aims to co-develop DNA authentication test kits for botanicals and related natural health products.
Israel’s Algatechnologies Ltd. has achieved Non-GMO Project verification for its 100% organic Haematococcus pluvialis microalgae powder and astaxanthin oleoresin.
An app focusing on personalised nutrition and work out plans has received $10 m (€8.4 m) in funding its Series A round led by Creandum and Eight Roads Ventures.
Supplement and food firms operating in China’s booming cross border e-commerce market have been buoyed by a year-long extension of the existing trade laws, which were due to be replaced on January 1.
Israeli company Frutarom Health BU is to make available its fruit-based range of supplements formulated to supply nutraceuticals via a new fruit-based delivery system.
The formation of a new company aims to ‘bring an external eye inside health and nutrition projects,’ with its founders looking to bring a new model of project management to the industry.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has announced a collaboration with the Mayo Clinic on personalized nutrition solutions to healthy body weight through probiotics, prebiotics, and other nutrients.
With protein seeing continued interest from mainstream consumers, Glanbia Nutritionals has launched ProTherma: a hydrolyzed whey protein that can withstand high temperatures and therefore offer a protein punch in everyday hot beverages.
There is much room to improve omega-3 fish oil’s green credentials for environmental, health and economic reasons as firms seek to shift from energy intensive extraction methods and organic solvent use.
BASF and Segterra have announced a collaboration for BASF’s health ingredients brand, Newtrition, to provide personalized nutrition and dietary supplementation recommendations and scientific support for Segterra’s InsideTracker.
Digestive health and protein content are the top two priorities for infant formula manufacturers in APAC, leading to a surge in interest in prebiotics, probiotics and oligosaccharides.
Sports nutrition company Science in Sport (SIS) has renewed its agreement through to 2020 as Official Sports Nutrition Partner to competitive cyclists Team Sky.
California-based baobab powder brand Kaibae was selected to be part of the second cohort of Clorox-owned Burt’s Bees Natural Launchpad, which awards grantees with $10,000 in cash and several days of mentorship with Burt’s Bees executives.
Whey protein hydrolysates are superior to normal whey proteins for sports nutrition according to nearly two thirds of consumers, who cited improved muscle building and recovery amongst its purported benefits.
Unilever has launched its “biggest ever campaign” for the yeast extract spread Marmite, but new research published at the launch has been mocked on Twitter as “egregiously wrong”.
Unilever has bought organic herbal tea business, Pukka Herbs tea in the latest addition to a stable of brands that reflect its commitment to ethical practices and meet consumer demand for upmarket organic brews.
Despite the promise algae has shown as a source of food, feed and fertilizers, technology to cultivate this group of relatively simple, plant-like organisms, to commercial levels remains off the pace.
