Nutrition Industry Executive
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, ...
Partnering For The Blood Sugar Bout
Suppliers offer clinically proven ingredients providing manufacturers formulation flexibility for the exponential blood sugar market.According to the World Health Organization, the frequency of diabetes is rising around the globe—about 350 million people worldwide have the illness, a number likely to more than double in the next 20 years.What was once considered an adult onset disease ...
Eyeing The Possibilities
Meeting a growing population’s vision concerns requires innovating ingredients, tackling delivery challenges and arming with education.The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that more than 285 million people in the world are visually impaired, 39 million of which are blind, while 246 million have moderate to severe visual impairment. It is also predicted that without extra ...
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 ...
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 ...
Extracting Health Benefits
Many companies are formulating products with vegetable extracts to fill the growing nutritional void in the Standard American Diet.As kids, we were all told to “eat our vegetables.” And yet even though Americans are aware of the health benefits offered by a balanced diet, so few truly get all of the necessary daily nutrients. A ...
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 ...
Growing Health Benefits
As science shows plant-based EFAs are comparable to fish oils, companies are increasingly utilizing them to provide vegetarian options. Part II of NIE’s EFA series.Plant-based essential fatty acid (EFA) supplements are a growing segment among consumers, especially vegetarians, vegans and eco-conscious individuals.Sourced from algae, flax, chia and other non-animal sources, plant-based EFAs offer an alternative ...
Human Clinical Studies
For more than a decade, Nutrition Industry Executive (NIE) has worked to cultivate relationships between ingredient suppliers and finished product manufacturers by providing Science of Supplements sections to highlight the research supporting ingredients that can help finished products stand out. In the interest of furthering that cause and providing greater insight into suppliers’ efforts, NIE ...
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