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Tocotrienols: The next generation vitamin E comes of age
For most consumers vitamin E is just vitamin E, but there are different forms: Tocopherols and tocotrienols. While the former have dominated the market, the science of tocotrienols is developing, with potential health benefits ranging from anti-cancer effects to boosting heart health.
In this special series, NutraIngredients looks at the market, science, supply, and regulatory issues surrounding tocotrienols - hailed as the "next generation vitamin E".
Algae protein promises ‘ultra-premium alternative to soy and whey’
Renewable Algal Energy (RAE) – the latest entrant into the rapidly-heating-up market for nutritional ingredients from microalgae – will be able to supply commercial quantities of its novel algal oils and proteins by the third quarter of 2012, bosses have revealed.
Regulations: The regulatory landscape for vitamin E tocotrienol
In the final part of our series on vitamin E tocotrienols, we look at the regulations surrounding tocotrienols, both in the US and Europe.
Supply: The varied sources of vitamin E tocotrienol
In the third part of our series on vitamin E tocotrienols, we look at the supply, and the sources for today’s ingredients, from rice bran oil to palm oil, and the newest entrant – annatto.
Differentiation key to vitamin E tocotrienol success
In the second part of our special series on tocotrienols, NutraIngredients looks at the current state of the market, and where the opportunities lie for the future.
The science of the ‘next generation’ vitamin E
Vitamin E is well known to consumers across the globe, but their tocotrienol-form is not. In the first part on of special series on tocotrienols, NutraIngredients-USA looks at the potential health benefits of nutrients described as “the next generation vitamin E”.
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