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Equip Thyself
For those thinking about the investment into manufacturing, Nutritional Industry Executive (NIE) has polled several well-established equipment manufacturers for their opinionds as to why it makes sense to own your production and how you can get up and running.Nutrition Industry Executive (NIE): For smaller manufacturers— please explain why it’s a great idea to invest in ...
Delivering the Sensory Expectation
Suppliers and manufacturers are teaming up to create healthy functional foods and beverages that don’t sacrifice taste or texture.Consumer interest in functional foods and beverages is growing as more people are becoming aware of these convenient products, as well as the potential disease prevention offered by good nutrition. As a result, the market for functional ...
Customer-Driven Innovation: It’s About the Relationship
We love to talk about developing new products— and so do our sales forces and retailers. Rightly so, as new products are the reason behind start-up companies and, alongside distribution, they are the lifeblood of consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. But organizations that are truly customer-centric are focused on developing a relationship with their customer—one ...
Microen Capsulation: Perfect Little Nutrition Worlds
For centuries, the idea of a microcosm fascinated scientists and dreamers alike. In the modern era of dietary supplements, that concept has triggered a magnificent technology, microencapsulation, which has multiple benefits for not only production, but for the end-user. And more than ever, an increasing number of consumers are quite discerning about the supplements they ...
Fermentation: Probiotics & Beyond for Targeted Health
Intuitively, people have been eating healthy, fermented foods for thousands of years. As the natural health products market has grown in technological innovation and research, fermentation- based supplements have earned their place in promoting human health and wellness.The (Not-So) Basics In its simplest form, explained Hartley Pond, vice president of technical sales with California-based FutureCeuticals, Inc., ...
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 ...
Steering Public Perceptions
Here in the Northwest, our families prepare for earthquakes. We know that we live in an area prone to plates shifting, so we live in a state of readiness. Schools teach children to duck under desks, protecting their heads; at home we keep emergency food, water and critical medical supplies close.Yet across the supplement industry, ...
Made With Vitamin K
As studies continue to confirm vitamin K’s benefits, suppliers prepare for its appearance in a growing number of supplement categories.Vitamin K refers to a group of chemically similar fat-soluble compounds called naphthoquinones. According to Natural Standard, vitamin K1 (phytonadione) is the natural form of vitamin K found in plants and acquired primarily through dietary consumption. ...
Achieving Stability
The very word “unstable” is one that engenders fear. An unstable person is capable of acting violently, an unstable economy leads to recession or depression, an unstable structure can collapse, an unstable weather pattern can lead to natural destruction—and unstable ingredients can lead to emergency room visits and product recalls.Stability, it would then be surmised, ...
Label Logic
Your company spent a tremendous amount of time, resources and money to create a new formula or new line. Then you weighed heavily the bottling and most appropriate packaging, as well as marketing messages and campaigns. You know you have all the goods inside to make that favorable first impression. Except, like anyone’s truly best ...
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