August, 2010
So if you're mulling your next boffo product, check out our damn good advice on each of 15 health conditions.
August, 2010
In our third annual condition-specific ingredients guide, we offer you the leading raw material ingredient suppliers, selling to the specific health conditions consumers want.
August, 2010
According to consumer research conducted by IRI as well as Liz Sloane, the health conditions of greatest concern for the over-50 set include mental and heart health.
July, 2010
Product development cycles in the food world typically last about 18 to 20 months from ideation to store shelves. So it's taking a while to see the signs of an underlying change: the mainstream food world is shifting its focus toward nutrition.
June, 2010
We welcome GMPs for what they'll do for consumer confidence. At the same time, we surely need to do a better job as an industry to get this news out to mainstream consumers.
June, 2010
We welcome GMPs for what they'll do for consumer confidence. At the same time, we surely need to do a better job as an industry to get this news out to consumers.
June, 2010
A Congressional session put the natural products industry on the spot, with retailers cited for claiming various supplements could "treat, cure or prevent" various conditions and manufacturers exposed for heavy metal content — though within legal limits.
May, 2010
The beauty-from-within concept is gaining sway in much of the developed world.
May, 2010
Functional Ingredients' Science Editor Todd Runestad takes a look at the healthy ageing category, which gets bigger every day as more Baby Boomers reach retirement, and more ingredients come to the party
April, 2010
Mice fed a once-a-day multivitamin containing 30 common nutritional ingredients lived 11 per cent longer and showed no loss of daily movement compared to a greater than 50 per cent movement decline in the old, untreated mice.
March, 2010
March, 2010
FI science editor Todd Runestad talks with George Pontiakos of BI Nutraceuticals on botanical quality.
February, 2010
Stevia leads a pack of natural sweeteners offering low- or noncalorie alternatives to sugar and artificial ingredients. FI science editor Todd Runestad gives the pros and cons of the leading contenders.
February, 2010
Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette claimed the bronze medal in the women's figure skating finals.
February, 2010
The Canadian crowd cheered as Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette took to the ice Tuesday night for the short program, then roared its approval when she finished.
February, 2010
Canadian ski-cross finalist Chris Del Bosco had the bronze medal in the bag when he took a dramatic spill just before the finish line.
February, 2010
American moguls skier Shannon Bahrke won the bronze medal in women's moguls at the Vancouver winter Olympics on Saturday night.
February, 2010
Steve Mister, CEO of Council for Responsible Nutrition, discusses the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010.
December, 2009
In the last year or so, commodity ingredients have begun donning the outward mantle of being branded - clever name, snazzy logo. But lift up the hood, and there's no one there. No research, no intellectual property, nothing special.
December, 2009
From frankincense to egg shells, Science Editor Todd Runestad surveys the possibilities for manufacturers looking to offer something new and efficacious besides glucosamine and chondroitin