NPA shrinks board with new bylaws, expands membership categories
The Natural Products Association has approved a bylaw change that will shrink the size of the group’s board from 22 to what the group’s CEO calls a more manageable nine.
Archives for February 28, 2017
Baby water boom? This could be the next untapped market for firms in China’s infant nutrition space
There are “huge opportunities” for sales of baby water products to soar in China, with consumers extremely concerned about mixing infant formula with polluted tap water, analysts say.
RIBUS gets Non-GMO Project Verified seal for its rice-based ingredients
Ingredient supplier RIBUS has earned the Non-GMO Project Verified status for its rice-based natural and organic alternatives to synthetic ingredients.
Chickpea extract a potential prebiotic: China study shows microflora and short-chain fatty acid benefits
Ciceritol extracted from chickpeas has prebiotic potential with a new study showing it can boost the microflora of the colon and promote the production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA).
Herbalife announces two-year deal to sponsor Indian Special Olympics organisation
Herbalife has announced a two-year partnership with Special Olympics Bharat, which manages the Special Olympics programmes in India.
InnoVactiv Exec: ‘The upward trend in beauty-from-within products is now hitting North America’
Consumers in North America are increasingly looking beyond topical skincare treatments and exploring ingestible, beauty-from-within options, InnoVactiv executive and scientific director Jocelyn Bérubé told NutraIngredients-USA.
RangeMe adds 1,000 new suppliers a week
LuckyVitamin: Product discovery is a messy process; it's a combination of art and science
18 months after its US launch, online product discovery platform RangeMe is adding 1,000 new CPG suppliers a week as more high-profile retailers use it to identify and compare new products.
Gut bacteria have big influence on lung development, finds mouse study
Intestinal bacteria transferred at birth affect lung development, bacterial resistance and susceptibility to inflammatory conditions in newborns, according to a new mouse study.
Ready meals can be more nutritious than home cooking, so how to convince a sceptical public?
Consumers still assume ready meals are low in nutrition, but wider use of slow cooking techniques such as sous vide can produce foods that's more nutritious than home-cooked equivalents. Can prepared foods become more widely accepted?
European Parliament debates cardiovascular disease: Poor diet remains Europe’s biggest killer
Public officials and researchers will debate today at the European Parliament in Brussels, following a damning report on the damage and cost of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in Europe, of which poor diet remains the main culprit.
ABC's Blumenthal wins ethnopharmacology award
Mark Blumenthal, founder and executive director of the American Botanical Council has added to his list of awards and accolades with a recognition from an Indian group.
More information is always better in working with analytical labs, service providers say
If there were one thing an analytical lab contractor could tell a client it might be similar to what a psychologist would tell a new patient: Don’t be shy. Tell me everything.
Blood Sugar Management Forum recap: Common pitfalls in marketing and labeling
Marketing the benefits for supplements in the blood sugar management category is a matter of carefully crafting claims to make sure there’s substantiating science, and that claims comply with FDA and FTC standards.
'Kids throw milk at each other...it's a waste of public money'
Sri Lanka students shun nutritious food and dairy due to raft of ‘social and cultural factors’
Students in Sri Lanka are not eating healthy diets and are shunning school milk programmes due to social and cultural factors, and until these are tackled the country’s double burden of malnutrition will remain, experts say.