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Health & Wellness Trends: Balancing Science With Consumer Appeal
When it comes to health and wellness in the food industry, a challenge we all face is to deliver on quickly changing consumer trends while still ensuring products meet the appropriate regulations and do not deceive consumers. This is especially daunting because consumer trends change at a much faster pace than science. We might see ...
The Evolution of Dosage Forms
Dosage forms date back to 1500 B.C. in ancient Egypt when primitive man used plant and animal parts to formulate ointments, powders, syrups and various other confections.1 Today, drug delivery technology can help improve patient adherence by simplifying the dosing regimen, and/or decreasing side effects. Other advantages include steadier drug concentrations in the bloodstream and ...
Looking Beyond Generations for Consumer Insights on Supplements
Although you’ve probably heard otherwise in the media, let’s start with the obvious: not all Millennials are alike. And yet, time and time again we are asked by dietary and herbal supplement companies, “What do Millennials want?” This question often comes from the mindset that Millennials act as a single group. It’s like asking, “How ...
The ABH Nature’s Products Recall—Lessons for Own Label Distributors
On Jan. 21, 2020, ABH Nature’s Products, Inc., ABH Pharma, Inc., and Stocknutra.com, Inc. (collectively “ABH”) announced an unprecedented recall covering in excess of 1,200 products marketed by more than 800 different own label distributors (OLD—companies that hire a contract manufacturer to produce branded products for them). This action came as a result of an ...
Cardiovascular Concerns
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the No. 1 cause of death globally, as 17.9 million people, die from CVDs each year. WHO reported that four out of five CVD deaths each year are due to heart attacks and strokes. In addition, one-third of these deaths occur prematurely in people ...
Rob Brewster, Ingredients by Nature
Ingredients by Nature 5555 Brooks St. Montclair, CA Phone: (909) 230-6200 Website: www.ingredientsbynature.com Ingredients by Nature (IBN) formulates, manufactures and markets science-based ingredients, proprietary extracts and formula innovations for applications in dietary supplements, functional foods & beverages, cosmetics and animal nutrition. IBN currently offers more than 300 ingredient variations, including various citrus-derived ingredients, along with ...
Ready to Bloom: How Advanced Delivery Technologies Support the Growth of the Herbs and Botanicals Supplements Market
Where once a supplement ingredient may have taken all of the glory, individuals and brand owners alike are increasingly aware of the importance of the supplement delivery technology and the role it can play in meeting their personal health goals. This comes as the ways in which consumers define and cultivate health continues to expand, ...
Temper Your Transparency: Balancing Between Honesty and Oversharing
Transparency: a popular word that companies, leaders and executives toss around so much that the word itself is at risk of becoming endangered and losing its real meaning. If a company says it’s transparent, that means the company is honest and trustworthy, right? Let’s hope so, but nowadays, transparent could just mean that I’m trying ...
Designing Product Quality
Dr. Stephen DeFelice coined the term “nutraceutical” from “nutrition” and “pharmaceutical” in 1989, and in 2020 it’s still yet to be clearly defined or internationally accepted. How is quality measured across all segments of the manufacturing process when there are no set standards? In a customer-driven industry that constantly changes to meet the trends and ...
Consumer Interest in Immune Health Drives Demand for Functional Ingredients
With 42 percent of global consumers now proactively looking for products that can improve their health, to meet consumer demand for the products that provide the benefits they’re searching for, it’s vital for manufacturers to understand the market drivers, and what’s motivating consumer choice. For manufacturers and brands operating in the well-being category, the immune ...
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