NIE Features
Go With Your Heart
Ingredient advancements are providing manufacturers key opportunities to support consumers’ heart health goals. When selecting ingredients and formulating new products, manufacturers take pride in focusing on efficacy and safety. The Krill Advantage Superba Krill Oil, produced by Aker BioMarine (Oslo, Norway), has many heart health benefit applications due to its natural composition of omega-3s, EPA ...
Let Food Be Thy Medicine!
The evolution of plant-based nutraceuticals. The panel: Annie Eng, CEO, HP Ingredients, Bradenton, FL, https://hpingredients.com Greg Cumberford, Vice President, Science and Regulatory, Nature’s Crops International, Kensington, PE, Canada, https://naturescrops.com Julia Diaz, Head of Marketing, Pharmactive, Madrid, Spain, https://usa.pharmactive.eu Kim Edwards, Global Product Manager, Kemin Human Nutrition and Health, Des Moines, IA www.kemin.com Steve Fink, Vice ...
Something to Chew On: Revitalizing the Digestive Health Category
Digestive health is emerging as a powerful focus for consumers. There is growing opportunity for products that are easy to digest—physically and educationally. Gut feelings, on people’s minds today, are not just about the physical sensation felt in one’s abdomen in response to a situation, it’s also about figuring out how to combat digestive issues. ...
Addressing Blood Sugar Concerns
Finding natural solutions for those seeking to maintain healthy blood sugar levels is needed now more than ever before. According to the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, an estimated 30.3 million people have diabetes, while another 84.1 million adults ages 18 and older are prediabetic. And at a time when the ...
Quality is as Quality Does
Re-examining dietary supplement ingredient quality in a supply-disrupted world. Our expert panel: Daniel Fabricant, PhD, President and CEO, Natural Products Association (NPA), Washington, D.C., www.npanational.org Salma Fathalla, Director, Quality Assurance, Nutrition21, Purchase, NY, https://nutrition21.com Dan Lifton, President, Maypro Ventures, Purchase, NY, www.maypro.com Vishal Shah, Director, Nutriventia, Mumbai, India, https://nutriventia.com William Sommer, Vice President Global Development ...
Sleep & Relaxation Support—A Drowsy Category No More
Ingredients for sleep support have taken off with product sales in this category posting strong double-digit growth. The panel: Michael Chernyak, President, CK Nutraceuticals, Oakville, ON, Canada, https://ckingredients.com Julia Diaz, Head of Marketing, Pharmactive, Madrid, Spain, http://pharmactive.eu/en/home-en/ Kim Edwards, Global Product Manager, Kemin Human Nutrition and Health, Des Moines, IA, www.kemin.com Mariko Hill, Product Development ...
NIE Awards 2020
Two years ago, the staff of Nutrition Industry Executive (NIE) was looking for a way to highlight the most cutting-edge and advanced natural branded nutritional ingredients backed by science, and thus, the NIE Awards were born. In order to be considered, the ingredients needed to be launched since Oct. 1, 2018, for the purpose of ...
Heavy Lifting: Sports Nutrition Product Development Trends
From muscle building to fortifying nutritional status, the new world of sports nutrition is more inclusive than ever—here’s how to get in on an active market. In fitness and in sports, every goal reached or scored is without a doubt a rush of wonderful feelings—triumph, pride, passion, gratitude … followed by immediate focus to achieve ...
Hemp Lights Up the Natural Products Industry
Despite a smoky regulatory landscape for CBD and hemp-derived products, the power of this $4.7 billion-dollar market alone may mandate a clearer future. Our expert CBD panel: Zora De Grandpre, ND, Physician, Leafreport, Tel Aviv, Israel, www.leafreport.com Alice Hirschel, PhD, Technical Service Director, ABITEC, Columbus, OH, www.abiteccorp.com Collette Kakuk, Vice President of Global Marketing, HempRise, ...
Supporting Immunity
The pandemic has caused worldwide concern—and that stress has caused the greatest need ever for effective immune-support products. Without a doubt, the current pandemic has changed how people worldwide view protecting their health. Immunity. Immune system. These terms are at the forefront of public consciousness more than ever before. But there’s something that the pandemic ...
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