Articles by Janet Poveromo
Fit For Women
Nutritional Ingredients Address Women’s Needs Across Life Stages, Life Styles And Health Concerns Women of every age, height, weight and activity level have at least one thing in common: their bodies need certain nutrients to help them function properly. “From a nutrition perspective, the primary concern for women is bone health,” said Dr. Gameil T. Fouad, ...
Filling the Fiber Gap
Women younger than 50 need about 25 g of fiber per day, and men younger than 50 need 38 g (the daily values are a few grams lower for adults older than 50). But on average, American women get about 13 g and men 17 g, according to a 2005 report by the Food and ...
Natural Beauty Preferred
As more consumers seek out natural ingredients in their cosmetic products, suppliers continue to study what works best while staying within regulatory guidelines in the U.S. and overseas.According to a Datamonitor 2013 consumer survey, North American female consumers of skincare products indicate that naturalness in products is important (at least 75 percent ranked as either ...
Name Brand Investment
Regulations and quality issues increase demand of proprietary ingredients.In the last 15 years or so, the supply of natural ingredients has exploded. Dietary supplement and/or functional food manufacturers are faced with an ever-expanding array of ingredients to consider for their formulations. The concept of branding an ingredient has become more popular over the past 10 ...
Bringing Others’ Big Ideas To Market
Flexibility, specialization, speed and regulatory compliance make contract manufacturers competitive in the natural products marketplace.IFC Solutions, formerly International Foodcraft Corporation, which was founded in 1939, and changed its name in July, is a producer of finished product ingredients. For the New Jersey-based company, the current state of the market of its contract manufacturing business is ...
Probiotic Promise
Research and advancements are setting the stage for even more success in the category.Still considered in its infancy stage, the probiotics market continues to grow in the double digits. The United States drove global sales of probiotic supplements the past couple years with more than a 20 percent increase in sales. In fact, for digestive ...
Getting In The Game
The sports nutrition market has seen growth recently from new consumers who want results and are beginning to investigate science-backed products.While riding out tough economic times, the sports nutrition category is moving from bench warmer to starter status, as the market has experienced solid growth over the past year. “According to industry experts, I have ...
Turning to Green Foods
Americans just aren’t eating enough fruits and vegetables, which may explain why they’ve become more interested in supplementing with green foods.It’s not news that sound nutritional habits are the key to great health, and it’s also not news that many Americans find that goal hard to achieve. With the nutritional power offered by green foods, ...
Maximum Burn
Suppliers look to safety, efficacy and the internet to support the latest in thermogenic ingredients.Simply put, thermogenesis is the production of heat in the body.Mitch Skop, senior vice president of new product development at Pharmachem Laboratories Inc. in New Jersey, added to that basic definition that thermogenesis is the creation of heat in the body ...
Flax & Chia
These healthy seeds are the current “big thing” in functional foods.Flax and chia are considered natural product industry seed allstars, and for good reasons: both flaxseeds and chia seeds are nutrient rich; they are both known as concentrated sources of the omega-3 fatty acid, alpha-linoleic acid (ALA); they contain a significant amount of minerals and ...
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