Sports nutrition

Arla launches heat-sensitive whey

Arla launches heat-sensitive whey

By Nicola Cottam

Arla Food Ingredients has launched a 100% whey protein concentrate it claims is less sensitive to heat in functional and clinical nutrition.

Active duty Marine's energy shot packs mega doses of vitamins

Active duty Marine's energy shot packs mega doses of vitamins

By Hank Schultz

Battlefield experience in Afghanistan gave Marine Corps Maj. Robert Dyer a good idea of what he wanted in a supplement.  And surving the stress of being a forward air controller in the combat zone helped him weather the stress of launching a new supplement...

Offside! ESSNA blows whistle on athletes’ doping excuses

Special edition: Sports nutrition

Offside! ESSNA blows whistle on athletes’ doping excuses

By Shane STARLING

Europe’s sports nutrition sector today launched a stinging attack on elite athletes who blame doping infringements on contaminated sports supplements as happened multiple times at the recent Winter Olympiad in Sochi, Russia.

Former steroids seller finds scant integrity in supplements marketplace

Special edition: Sports nutrition

Former steroids seller finds scant integrity in supplements marketplace

By Hank Schultz

Kirk Radomski came through the fire of the performance enhancing drug scandal of Major League Baseball to a new life as the founder of a supplement company specializing in sports nutrition. The experience has given him a unique perspective on the business,...

Yohimbe limbo reveals cracks in EU risk management and regulatory processes, says ESSNA

Special edition: Sports Nutrition

Ban yohimbe just like ephedra, says EU sports nutrition sector

By Dr Adam Carey

EFSA last year concluded the safety profile of herbal stimulant yohimbe is inconclusive. Ban it anyway, says the chair of the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (ESSNA) in this guest article.

Is DSHEA a public relations problem for the sports nutrition sphere?

Is DSHEA a public relations problem for the sports nutrition sphere?

By Hank Schultz

The Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act has fostered an innovative and thriving industry. That’s the standard line, one that few would argue with. But has the bright light of DSHEA also cast shadows within which bad players have free rein?

GNC hops on personalization bandwagon with 'Accelerator' series

GNC hops on personalization bandwagon with 'Accelerator' series

By Hank Schultz

GNC Holdings is hopping on the personalizaiton bandwagon with a line of add-on sports nutrition prouducts call the “Accelerator Series.”  The products are intended to pair with exisitng sports nutrition products offered by the company to help customers...

Company to debut 'natural' energy ingredients in Anaheim

Company to debut 'natural' energy ingredients in Anaheim

By Hank Schultz

A company that got its start fighting cancer has moved into the natural area with the launch of three energy ingredients. Applied Food Sciences Inc. will unveil the ingredients at the Next Innovation Summit this week held in conjunction with the Natural...

Nitrates show metabolic benefits: RCT data

Nitrates show metabolic benefits: RCT data

By Stephen DANIELLS

Boosting intakes of nitrates may improve the resting metabolic rate in healthy volunteers, says a new study with implications for the healthy regulation of metabolic function.

“Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the presentation of findings by Gliemann et al. was the lack of reference to the fact that resveratrol improved performance on the step test to a significantly greater degree than placebo.”

Resveratrol exercise study questioned (again)

By Shane STARLING

Two polyphenol researchers have joined the chorus of criticism of a study that found resveratrol could mitigate exercise-derived heart benefits in healthy elderly men.

Amway notches $11.8 billion in sales in 2014

Amway notches $11.8 billion in sales in 2014

By Hank Schultz

Amway, the world’s largest network marketing company, reported $11.8 billion in sales, a 4.4% growth over the $11.3 billion in sales the company notched in 2012.

Asia-Pacific sales growth drives USANA's strong results

Asia-Pacific sales growth drives USANA's strong results

By Hank Schultz

USANA Health Sciences, a network marketing company based on sports nutrition, weight management and general health nutritional products, posted an impressive 10.6% gain in net sales for its fourth quarter of 2013. Net sales hit $186.3 million for the...

Canada OKs enhanced health claims for Ixoreal's KSM 66 ashwagandha

Canada OKs enhanced health claims for Ixoreal's KSM 66 ashwagandha

By Hank Schultz

KSM-66, an ashwagandha root-only extract from Ixoreal BioMed, has been approved in Canada for health claims that include stress reduction, sports nutrition benefits and support for healthy testosterone levels.  The approval of the claims, which go beyond...

Local sporting cultures influence consumer preferences across the global protein and non-protein markets, says Euromonitor

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Protein still sports nutrition king, but watch out

By Annie-Rose Harrison-Dunn

Protein is still the bedrock of sports nutrition says Euromonitor, but non-protein products are expected to grow faster in several important global markets like Australia, Canada and Indonesia.

Mexican astaxanthin producer to become vertically integrated

Mexican astaxanthin producer to become vertically integrated

By Hank Schultz

Another natural astaxanthin player is increasing its manufacturing capabilities with the announcement that Piveg, Inc.  a carotenoids manufacturer with business offices in San Diego, CA and production facilities in the central Mexican city of Celaya,...

New study supports Sensoril's psychomotor benefits in healthy subjects

New study supports Sensoril's psychomotor benefits in healthy subjects

By Hank Schultz

A new study on the ashwagandha ingredient Sensoril shows its ability to significantly improve cognitive and psychomotor performance during simple reaction, choice discrimination, digit symbol substitution, digit vigilance and card sorting tests in healthy...

Algatech says longer shelf life a differentiator for its astaxanthin

Algatech says longer shelf life a differentiator for its astaxanthin

By Hank Schultz

Companies are striving for ways to differentiate their ingredients in the red hot (pun intended) astaxanthin sector.  The latest effort has been made by Israel’s Algatechnologies, which has announced a longer shelf life for its algae-derived 10% astaxanthin...

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