Dosage forms & delivery formats

Sports Nutrition Summit 2019

Muscle in on the market: How to build the best protein bar

12-Sep-2019 By Nikki Hancocks

A burly 18 per cent of the sports nutrition market is new products and the industry continues to deliver new and exciting solutions for its innovation-inspired audience. But what products really stick?

FDA data: Dietary supplement recalls relatively infrequent

11-Sep-2019 By Danielle Masterson

Less than 2% of over 800 recalls initiated in 2019 involved dietary supplement products, says a new report from AHPA that supports “overall safety of the dietary supplements”.

Choline must be integrated into the prenatal supplement regimen, says expert review

11-Sep-2019 By Stephen Daniells

The importance of choline during the first 1,000 days after conception is increasingly understood by the medical community, and dietary supplement manufacturers are “beginning to recognize the potential that choline offers” says an industry expert.

Vitamin Shoppe gets competing bid

10-Sep-2019 By Danielle Masterson

A new player has entered into Vitamin Shoppe negotiations.

Bio-Up raises the bar for functional beverages with proprietary technology that boosts bioavailability

10-Sep-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

With patent-pending proprietary technology that is more reminiscent of the pharmaceutical industry than that of food and beverage, Bio-Up Mimetic Technologies hopes to take ‘functional’ beverages to a new level.

Vitamin E study reveals 'remarkable' new insight

09-Sep-2019 By Nikki Hancocks

New insight published today shows that even though vitamin E is fat soluble you don't have to consume fat with it to enable absorption as it will sit in the intestinal cell and wait for the next meal to come along.

Enough data backs benefits of timed nutrient delivery to support call for more research, study finds

06-Sep-2019 By Hank Schultz

Specific timing of nutrient delivery can have sports nutrition benefits, but the research is very much still in its infancy and as yet does not support much in the way of definitive recommendations, according to a new review.

Editor's Spotlight

CEO refocuses Valensa with ingredient 'platforms' strategy

28-Aug-2019 By Hank Schultz

Fitting a legacy business into the realities of the modern market is a challenge for suppliers of dietary supplement ingredients, according to the CEO of Valensa International.

Capsule criticism that's hard to swallow: Report says good tablet design is crucial

22-Aug-2019 By Will Chu

Food authorities make available a new report highlighting the swallowing issues elderly people face as key consumers of dietary supplements such as vitamins or mineral-based tablets.

Smokers and drinkers benefit more from flavonoid-rich diet’s protective effect: Study

19-Aug-2019 By Will Chu

Dietary intake of the kinds of flavonoids found in apples and tea may ward off certain types of cancer and heart-related disease, a Danish cohort study finds, especially for smokers and heavy drinkers.

Standardization from filtration process will boost elderberry ingredient, supplier says

14-Aug-2019 By Hank Schultz

Berry specialist Artemis International says the standardization bona fides of a European elderberry ingredient it is debuting in the US market will set it apart in a crowded space.

Innophos takes sales hit as it exits low margin nutrition trading business

13-Aug-2019 By Hank Schultz

Innophos has taken an earnings hit while it continues its transition into a major player in the food and dietary supplement ingredients markets.

Nature’s Way leads $6 million Series A round for personalized nutrition company Baze

13-Aug-2019 By Adi Menayang

Legacy supplement brand Nature’s Way is betting on the personalized nutrition space with an investment in Baze, a personalized nutrition start-up.

Keto diet claims vs reality: What the science says

13-Aug-2019 By Nikki Cutler

The keto diet is often not the performance boosting mechanism it is claimed to be, according to an expert who plans to set the record straight at NutraIngredients’ Sports Nutrition Summit next month.

Method for quantifying insoluble PACs in cranberry could open up new avenues of research, expert says

12-Aug-2019 By Hank Schultz

A study using cranberries supplied by Fruit d’Or outlines a new test method for quantifying the insoluble proanthocyanidins (PACs) within the fruit. The method could potentially open up new avenues of research for ingredients derived from the berry.