Charlotte Traas is a board certified master herbalist, ashwagandha expert and a self-described rebel. As the Director of Sales Education and Training at New Chapter, she’s developing content for training and representing the company as a national trainer...
This year’s International Society of Sports Nutrition Annual Conference & Expo marked its 19th year promoting the science and application of evidence-based sports nutrition and supplementation. NutraIngredients-USA was there to hear about the latest...
The vertically-integrated supplier of hemp extracts and cannabinoid ingredients recently introduced HempNANO, its new concentrated nanoemulsion for water soluble applications.
Melanie Bush says she had a bone to pick with cancer. So when she had an opportunity to utilize a social impact initiative through the Miss America scholarship Organization, she decided to use her platform to focus on cancer prevention and awareness.
Rachel Fresco used her background in naturopathy, Traditional Chinese medicine and clinical nutrition to found Bio-Botanical Research. As a formulator, she also creates herbal remedies, including Biocidin, the company’s flagship product.
Twenty-five years is a long time in business. The relationships and commitments to people and communities forged over that time by Indiana-based Verdure Sciences have helped the company weather the challenges and disruptions of the past couple of years,...
May is women's health month and there was no shortage of new products geared toward females. Gummies were also prominent, plus a hint of nostalgia in the form of ooze.
While working at her father’s cigar company, Paola Fernandez invented a ‘natural’ alternative to tobacco-based rolling paper. In 2016, High Hemp was born and sells its flagship hemp wraps along with CBD gummies and tinctures. In under 5 years, Fernandez...
Elyse Lovett has a number of years of dietary supplement and food ingredient marketing experience with her last tenure as VP of Marketing at Nutrition21. Previously, she managed the marketing departments at Kyowa Hakko USA and AarhusKarlshamn (AAK.) But...
Knowledge gleaned from the commercialization of Akkermansia muciniphila should lead to an accelerated path to market for a novel probiotic candidate for weight management, says the researcher behind both developments.
Research suggests only about 1 in 5 C-suite executives are women, and while the issue of gender equity touches nearly every industry, female leadership in the food and beverage industries presents its own unique challenges, like mass-market heritage brands...
Renee Deehan, PhD, leads a science team that builds and mines the world's largest dataset of blood, DNA, fitness tracking and phenotypic data from healthy people to find actionable insights for health. She is a molecular biologist by training and...
Being part of the massive organization Kirin has helped Kyowa Hakko build on its legacy of innovation and quality, according to the division’s new CEO.
The IPA World Congress + Probiota Americas 2022 is just over a month away! The leading event for the probiotics, prebiotics, and microbiome community is a must-attend event, and let us tell you why…
Larisa Pavlick has devoted her entire career to the supplement industry. She spent nearly a decade at FDA focused on consumer safety and also experienced the full product life cycle from the development phase, through purchasing, into manufacturing, brand...
This month's new offerings address a variety of needs specifically for kids, including a new hydration pouch, probiotics for dental health and protein for growing bodies. For the adults, April was all about stress management, with ingredients like...
As the ChromaDex External Research Program passes a significant milestone with 250 material transfer agreements (MTAs), are there lessons for the rest of the industry to learn about building out R&D programs?
NutraIngredients took the opportunity to speak to Magali Cordaillat-Simmons, Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Director, Pharmabiotic Research Institute (PRI) on regulatory science and how it paves the way for innovative therapies.
Attorney Pooja Nair is a Harvard-educated business litigator who has an eagle eye on the food and beverage sector. She advises clients, including restaurant groups, food brands, and manufacturers on a comprehensive range of issues. She is also a noted...
This year’s Sports Nutrition Summit brought in experts that provided the insights needed to earn the respect of gamers, especially when it comes to authenticity, health and wellness.
This year’s Expo West was chock full of innovations in gut health, offering a variety of benefits for humans to maintain optimal digestive health. But what about the 39 trillion microbes that call our bodies home?
Yasmeen Nkrumah-Elie, PhD, oversees external Research, managing a portfolio of over 200 studies, as well as supporting marketing, regulatory, and scientific affairs projects. The Global Director of External Research for ChromaDex has over 13 years of...
Prodalim debuted the new platform at Expo West, demonstrating how innovation continues to push the intersection between nutrition and technology forward.
Hanan Wajih, is an accomplished and data-driven brand builder, executing some of the most successful campaigns for iconic health, wellness and beauty brands. She has done marketing for Johnson’s Baby, Band-Aid and Neutrogena and so many other brands we...
While COVID-related supply chain disruption has wreaked havoc on global supply chains, climate issues are worsening the problems for the botanical supply from around the world.
The Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program has published its 71st publication, the director of the program said recently at the Expo West trade show recently.
Laura Katz founded a company on the belief that breastfeeding should not define the health of a child—or the worth of a parent. Helaina is a company that uses precision fermentation to reinvent infant formula by producing functional proteins through microbial...
Expo West attracted over 2,700 exhibitors and packed the house with a variety of proteins featuring unique flavors and ingredients. Of the thousands of new products to debut, one stood out. Not just because it’s a raman flavored protein served hot—but...
A natural medicine foundation and the supplement manufacturer Standard Process have teamed up to validate how dietary supplements in concert with lifestyle changes can improve health, with the ultimate goal to publish the results in a peer reviewed journal.
Nearly 1 in 5 American households nationwide adopted a pet during the pandemic, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
The American Herbal Pharmacopoeia is cooperating with the Indian government to develop a series of monographs to better substantiate popular Ayurvedic botanicals, including some important in the stress management sphere.
Dr. Jenelle Kim, DACM, L.Ac. is not only the founder of JBK Wellness Labs, she's the lead formulator. Her products can be found everywhere from spas at the Ritz Carlton to retailers like Whole Foods.
As the uncertainty around the regulatory status of NAC (N-acetyl cysteine) continues, it is important the industry doesn’t lose this for the precedent it sets for other potential ingredients, said CRN’s Steve Mister.
Vous Vitamin is a personalized vitamin company that uses an all-in-one multivitamin approach rather than packs. The company is led by two physicians who wanted to simplify the process for consumers by offering proprietary formulas tailored to individual...
Sports nutrition research is adapting to a changing market with more studies being done on endpoints like recovery and healthy aging, a clinical trials expert said.
This year’s Sports & Active Nutrition Summit event launched with a focus on CBD in sports nutrition. While CBD/hemp products are still in a federal regulatory gray area, that hasn’t stopped product developers from flooding the market with new offerings....
Sports nutrition products are often linked to certain diet plans, such as ketogenic diets, high protein/low fat approaches and others. A nutrition expert says the prosaic takeaway is that all of these have been shown to work, provided that consumers...
Creatine, one of the foundational ingredients in the sports nutrition realm, has so many proven benefits that it should be thought of as more of a general health ingredient, attendees at the recent Sports & Active Nutrition Summit were told.
Before taking the main stage for the female athlete and consumer panel at the Sports and Active Nutrition Summit in San Diego, professional triathlete Heather Jackson joined NutraIngredients-USA’s Danielle Masterson to talk about her nutrition evolution...
With five weeks left until the closing date for entries for the NutraIngredients-USA Awards 2022, we’re often asked about the judging process, so here’s what you need to know…
