eSports offer a promising platform to engage young adults in positive nutritional and dietary choices, according to a first-of-its-kind scoping review from Australian academics.
The International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) featured a variety of presentations to promote the science and application of evidence-based sports nutrition and supplementation, including a non-so-well-known application of creatine.
Food and beverage multinational CP Foods has big plans for its new plant-based Meat Zero line and other alternative protein innovations, citing strong category growth and rising consumer health consciousness as its main motivations for leaping into the...
VitamINSIGHTS: Traceability and quality control – Exclusive in-depth analysis
How can traceability technologies safeguard product quality and safety, and to what extent are APAC consumers concerned about these developments? We take a deep dive with Amway, Danone, BYHEALTH and more to find out.
French biotech, SILAB, has opened a new high-tech research facility to “meet high market demand” for natural active ingredients in beauty and personal care markets.
A new sports nutrition position paper outlines nutritional recommendations for warfighters while stressing how much more research needs to be done to pin down precise deficits and requirements for troops engaged in ongoing operations.
Research suggests French maritime pine bark extract counteracts damaging environmental stress factors and reinforces the body's frontline defense against harmful toxins.
Fermentation of dietary fibre in the gut stimulates production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA), in particular butyrate, to reinforce skin barrier function and prevent atopic dermatitis (AD), according to researchers.
Australia’s Healthy Care and Canada’s Jamieson Laboratories were the few overseas firms to receive China’s health foods filing approval in the first seven months of 2022, according to a new report.
The US Food and Drug Administration has sent warning letters to four companies marketing sexual enhancement supplements ostensibly based on honey but which contained undeclared ED drugs. The warning letters were part of a ongoing enforcement effort on...
Herbalife has launched a new weight management product based on a fiber derived from prickly pear cactus. The ingredient has the backing of several placebo controlled human clinical trials.
With a host of new products being introduced in the market boosting health benefits, here's a round-up of some of the latest supplements, oils and flavours to make it that little bit easier, and tastier, to get the nutrients our bodies need.
The vast majority of adults are only consuming a quarter of the recommended tocotrienols, which suggests an urgent need to “popularise knowledge”, according to the authors of a Polish trial.
The European Commission has published recommendations that try to clarify the definition of nanomaterials often used in nutrient delivery systems in nanoenabled foods and beverages.
Consumption of probiotics could ease constipation, improve stool consistency and increase faecal Bifidobacteria and Lactobacillus among people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-C)
Thorne HealthTech recently relaunched its Gut Health Test with the inclusion of its patent-pending Microbiome Wipe, eliminating the stool sampling that might be deterring users from testing their microbiome.
A group of sports nutrition researchers looked into the precise contents of some popular polyphenol-rich products and found a wide range of concentrations and potential activity.
Infant formula’s growing ability to shift the gut microbiome closer to that of breastfed infants is outlined in a study that details how a blend of five human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) work in tandem with each other.
Genosa has launched an olive fruit extract with soluble phenol-rich hydroxytyrosol that offers “infinite possibilities of applications” in functional edible oils.
Supplementation with a blend of bee-derived royal jelly (RJ) and coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) may play a role in improving athletic performance, reduce oxidative stress and muscle damage.
Hopes of being able to ‘out-run’ poor nutrition have been dashed by new research from Australia that shows high levels of physical activity do not counteract the detrimental effects of a bad diet on mortality risk.
Amber Cerda started working in the natural products industry in 2001, but left to work in higher education. This industry does get under your skin and into your heart, however, and in 2012 she came back to work at NOW Foods.
The joint development program between Seed and Axial aims to develop next-generation probiotics and therapeutics to modulate the gut microbiota to target areas like anxiety, depression and mental well-being.
German research reveals one week of regular supplementation with Myrkl “substantially” lowers alcohol metabolism and uptake in the blood, which suggests it may help prevent liver and other organ damage, as a result of regular alcohol intake.
Polyphenols in foods can prevent inflammation in older people, according to researchers from the University of Barcelona, who implicate intestinal bacteria in its mechanism of action.
Biosyntia’s efforts to commercialise a bio-based form of vitamin B7 appear on track after the Danish-based biotech firm closes a €11.5m Series B funding round.
Conventional red meat is a better source of protein and delivers more essential amino acids than plant-based alternatives, based on results from a New Zealand RCT.
Blackmores made its largest-ever single product donation to support clinical research for a COVID-19 related trial involving migrant workers in Singapore.
Specific probiotics strains have showed immunomodulatory properties in women suffering from chronic inflammatory conditions, such as gestational diabetes and PCOS, according to a review of RCTs conducted by Nestle.
A new review has found strong support for the use of many vitamins and other dietary ingredients in prenatal supplements. But the researches also found that few supplements marketed to expectant mothers meet their recommended dosage levels.
Routine vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy can reduce incidence of atopic eczema in the first year of life, according to researchers at the University of Southampton.
The European Commission (EC) is to allow a turmeric-based metabolite on the market as a Novel Food (NF) for 5 years in a move that raises questions about other curcuminoid extracts.
This round-up will look at developments of brands in the health and nutrition industry, including how brands such as Bubs Australia and Bellamy’s Organic have successfully gained access to the infant formula market in US, as well as Nestle Health Science’s...
Quercetin supplements combined with low-intensity resistance exercise may improve measures of muscle stiffness in older people and may benefit those at risk of sarcopenia.
With 2022’s Sports and Active Nutrition Digital Summit Europe (SANSE) pencilled in for 5-7 October, NutraIngredients is delighted to confirm the next wave of speakers to the schedule.
Greek biopharmaceutical firm Cloudpharm is to team up with Cosmos Holdings in a deal that harnesses the gut microbiome as a basis to develop products addressing obesity.
A 12-week RCT funded by Mitsubishi Corporation Life Sciences has shown that nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) intake has significantly improved certain aspects of muscle mobility, especially gait speed and left grip strength – which the company says presents...
Between Covid-19, supply chain issues and inflation, life is taking a serious toll on mental health. But more and more people are looking for ways to address mental health without a prescription.
