French botanicals leader Naturex has emphasised its ambition to be the “world leader in the specialty fruit & vegetable category” by launching an extract range targeting food supplements including gummies.
South African based Dynamic Extractions and Formulations (DEF) is marketing the first commercially available herbal extract - Sceletium tortuosum - produced since uniting with extraction specialist, Green Cell Technologies (GCT).
Only 15 per cent of commercial bilberry extracts actually contain
sufficient quantities of the active anthocyanin to have a
physiological effect, according to new research from Italy.
Xango is touting a new 'easily duplicable' analytical method, for
identifying xanthones in the rind of mangosteen fruit, as
supporting the health benefits of its high end juice line.
Calls from the bilberry industry for better testing of
imported extracts are growing louder, as the industry reacts to
reports of extracts mixed with mulberry or black bean skins or
azo-dyes
British Columbia Institute of Technology's Natural Health Products
Research Group has announced the completion of the first round of
its natural health products analytical laboratory proficiency
program using the herbal goldenseal.
Spanish biotech Natraceutical has developed a sterilisation process
involving supercritical CO2 that is said to remove contaminants
without compromising functional compounds, as well as reduce
processing costs.
