News, Analysis & Insights on Nutrition, Supplements, and Health
Minerals aren’t the easiest nutrients to incorporate into multivitamins—they can greatly affect the taste, texture, and even bioavailability of a final formulation. We spoke with several suppliers and brands to learn how they tackle the difficulties...
The development of guidelines and a harmonized framework for probiotics in Codex is necessary to ensure and sustain quality probiotic products on a global scale, says the International Probiotics Association (IPA).
A recent NIH-funded study has clouded the issue of whether omega-3s can ameliorate the symptoms of dry eye disease.
Notes from SupplySide East 2018
From a resveratrol powder dispersible in cold liquid to a melt-in-your-mouth resveratrol pixie stick, Swiss ingredient supplier Evolva highlighted the flexibility of resveratrol fortification at the SupplySide East show in Secaucus, NJ last week.
SPECIAL EDITION: NUTRITION REGULATIONS
Existing regulations that could allow companies to product multiple formulations of probiotic strains under the same brand name or trademark should be altered to allow consumers and medical professionals to better understand the benefits of specific...
The increased formation of a known biomarker for colon cancer has been linked to two forms of iron in commonly used supplements, say researchers.
SPECIAL EDITION: NUTRITION REGULATIONS
As April draws to a close, definitive outcomes from the European Commission’s (EC) Regulatory Fitness and Performance (REFIT) programme, said to appear sometime in 2018, are still nowhere to be seen.