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Functional Ingredients connects suppliers and manufacturers in the global nutrition industry. From product applications, marketing and business strategies to nutrition science and global regulations, professionals look to Functional Ingredients to guide them through the dynamic niche and mainstream nutritional food, drink and supplements markets. Functional Ingredients is part of the New Hope Natural Media global supply portfolio of business-to-business products – a suite of in-print, in-person and on-line media solutions that also includes SupplyExpo, NPI Center, Nutracon, New Products Launch Pad and Nutrition Business Journal.

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Managing Editor James Townsend jtownsend@newhope.com
Editorial Contact for: New Ingredients, New Products, Supplier Spotlight, Company News, People in the News
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Editorial Contact for: New Science, Research Capsule, Formulations, Ingredient Spotlight
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Steve Allen, Nestle
Kelley Fitzpatrick, Nutritech Consulting, Canada
Loren Israelsen, LDI Group, USA
Ian Newton, Ceres Consulting
Simon Pettman, European Advisory Services, Belgium
Kantha Shelke PhD, Corvus Blue
Steve Snyder, Cargill Health and Food Technologies
Mark Tallon PhD, NutriSciences
Peter Wennstrom, HealthFocus, EU
Donald F Wilkes, Blue Pacific Flavors

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Condition-Specific Guide

A complete resource to ingredients for health.

One of the top trends of the year is the move to market condition-specific nutritional products. The whole story — and exclusive Fi directory listing — provides manufacturers with a road map for the terrain ahead.

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Expo East

Warning on Body Building Products

In this Consumer Update video, FDA Product Safety Expert Deborah Autor, J.D., helps explain the agency's warning, issued July 28, 2009, to stop using body building products that claim to contain steroids or steroid-like substances.

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Podcast: Maintaining quality from your botanical supplier

George PontiakosHow to avoid getting stung with spiked botanicals: A conversation with George Pontiakos of BI Nutraceuticals.

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SabinsaSaberry, a Multifaceted Antioxidant


Saberry is a proprietary, patent pending, extract of the fruits of Emblica officinalis Gaertn, more commonly known as the Indian Gooseberry. Saberry is a light colored powder, processed from fresh Indian gooseberries by a novel extraction technology to retain the natural goodness of the fruit. Saberry from Sabinsa is standardized to contain a minimum of 10% B-Glucogallin and 50% Gallates.  

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Stemming the Tide
Focus on: Weight Management & Obesity

This Nutracon webinar promises to inspire as experts discuss the latest trends in weight management and the future of the category. Our team of experts will also look at the challenges within this category such as recent adverse events from products such as Hydroxycut, FTC enforcement on misleading weight loss claims and ingredients that show promise for the coming year.

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2009 US Nutrition Industry Overview issue

Dietary-supplement sales grew from 5.8 per cent 6.3 per cent in 2008, shattering the prediction by some that consumers' falling disposable income would drown dietary-supplement sales. Overall, there were $102 billion in nutrition-industry consumer sales last year, the magazine reports. Growth slowed in categories other than dietary supplements, but remained positive nonetheless.
NBJ covers these and other 2008 sales and growth estimates in its 2009 US Nutrition Industry Overview issue.

 

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Podcasts

DSM showcases new health benefit solutions - Booth #742

M Nutritional Products will launch a range of Health Benefit Solutions at this year's SupplyExpo. Each of the 12 Health Benefit Solutions delivers a combination of nutrients which is aligned with a specific health concern and backed by science.

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New carbohydrates call for thinking outside the box

New carbohydrates that are neither fish nor fowl are making the nomenclature for these ingredients obsolete. Dr Antje Jungclaus lays out some ideas about how to think about and classify these multifunctional carbs.

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Featured Story

Making cakes worth their salt

Industry expert John Brodie gives a rundown of low-sodium leavening agents that make the cake.

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The power of ‘AECES’

Joanna Marchut and Peter JH Jones evaluate how the five tests of acceptability, ease of formatting, cost-effectiveness, efficacy and safety can lead to a product’s commercial success

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