Functional Food

Destressing through food: Can functional food help stress relief?

19-Mar-2024 By Augustus Bambridge-Sutton

In our highly stressed-out age, functional food can be a way to ease the load. But where do we look for stress relief, and what foods do we consume?

FrieslandCampina Ingredients eyes ‘pockets of growth’ with new child nutrition portfolio

28-Sep-2023 By Teodora Lyubomirova

The company is pivoting its dairy-derived early life nutrition ingredients into a portfolio designed to enhance the nutritional value of products aimed at children aged 3 and up.

Agave fructan jelly relieves symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome: Study

15-Aug-2023 By Asia Sherman

Consuming a prebiotic agave fructan jelly could reduce visceral hypersensitivity with short-chain fatty acids, attenuate anxiety and modulate brain activity in irritable bowel syndrome patients with constipation, according to a recent study. The findings...

TurtleTree’s animal-free lactoferrin LF+ promises to democratize highly-prized, scarce multifunctional milk protein

07-Apr-2023 By Elizabeth Crawford

Known as pink gold for its iron-rich rosy hue, high price point and supply scarcity, the bioactive milk protein lactoferrin has been mostly limited to infant formula and dietary supplements in small doses – but that could soon change thanks to advances...

TopGum solidifies US market presence with organic certification

08-Aug-2022 By Hank Schultz

Israeli gummy manufacturer TopGum Industries is solidifying its US market presence with a new USDA Organic certification.

Functional food boost: Mixing berry polyphenols with plant protein isolate

09-Nov-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

New research has concluded that the addition of berry polyphenols to plant protein isolate dispersions can alter their physical properties in a way which might be useful for the formulation of functional food and drink.

Placebo packaging? Designing products with perceived potency

25-Oct-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

Providing consumers with the sense that a product is providing a health benefit begins when they first look at the pack and continues through the consumption experience so there are many elements of this journey to get right. New consumer research from...

$10.5m fundraise helps GEM take on ‘reductionist’ supplement industry with whole food bites featuring ‘untapped’ ingredients

11-May-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

An infusion of $10.5m in seed funding will accelerate the consumer life sciences company GEM’s mission to overhaul the $140.3b supplement market by replacing “reductionist” pills, tablets and candies with whole food bites designed to improve the health...

NutraVideo: Envara Health launches therapy to enhance fat absorption

06-Jan-2021 By Danielle Masterson

Envara Health, a company focused on advanced nutrition, has launched Encala, a new medical food formulated to address fat malabsorption in patients with conditions such as cystic fibrosis.

Rat study: Byproduct of apple juice processing may have liver health benefits, researchers suggest

29-Jul-2019 By Adi Menayang

Discarded pulp, skin, seeds, and stems of apples processed into apple juice may be turned into nutritional products to support liver health—in rats at least, according to a newly published study.

Healthy Ageing APAC Summit 2019

Silver Sarcopenia tsunami: AstaReal assesses huge functional food opportunity as Asia’s population ages

22-Jul-2019 By Guan Yu Lim

Almost 50 million people in Asia-Pacific are suffering from sarcopenia, and this figure is expected to rise, creating a huge need for supplements and functional food innovation to help alleviate the problem.

DolCas BioTech and Tenshi Kaizen form joint venture to focus on nutraceutical development

26-Mar-2019 By Adi Menayang

Nutraceutical ingredient supplier DolCas BioTech has started a venture with India-based pharmaceutical and biotech company Tenshi Kaizen. The joint venture will focus exclusively on the research, development, and commercialization of nutraceutical products.

Primal Kitchen co-founder: ‘Collagen is a critical component people have been omitting from their diet’

04-Apr-2018 By Adi Menayang

Condiments, collagen bars, and collagen powder—things that, at one time, would have seemed a bit random to be grouped into a product portfolio of one brand, considering that they are traditionally sold in separate stores, or at least separate aisles....

NIU's functional foods forum: Sports nutriton, snacks, beverages seen as hottest categories

09-Jul-2014 By Hank Schultz

Functional foods and beverages are the thin edge of the innovation wedge and are growing by leaps and bounds. Panelists in a recent online forum hosted by NutraIngredients-USA laid out the trends in this booming sector.

ANVISA: Regulation must catch up to booming South American supplements market

02-Apr-2014 By Maggie Hennessy

Just ahead of the 2014 Vitafoods Conference in São Paulo, Brazil, a spokesperson for the Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) caught up with NutraIngredients-USA to discuss the exploding market for dietary supplements and functional foods and...

What’s driving growth in functional food and beverages? A convergence of nutrition, convenience and taste

27-Sep-2013 By Maggie Hennessy

With the global market for functional foods and beverages on track to reach $176.7 billion this year, this booming category now accounts for 5% of the overall food market and is driving growth for the food industry as a whole, according to Euromonitor. 

Special edition: Asia

Korea: 'Stringent' regulations promote functional food potential

22-Sep-2010 By Lorraine Heller

The Korean functional food market hinges on obtaining the nation’s precious ingredient claim approval, but breaking that barrier opens the floodgates to huge market potential, according to an industry expert.

Report identifies cheapest cities for functional food facilities

22-Apr-2009 By Lorraine Heller

South Dakota is the most economic location for a functional food and beverage facility, according to a new study that analyzed geographically-variable operating costs.

Types of research needed for functional food claims

03-Apr-2009 By Lorraine Heller

Health claims that can be made on functional food products vary depending on the quality and quantity of scientific evidence that backs the claim. In this article, NutraIngredients-USA.com provides a break-down of the different types of research that...

Healthy ingredients makers court mainstream food at IFT

30-Jul-2007 By Clarisse Douaud at IFT in Chicago

IFT Expo is bridging the gap between dietary supplement ingredients
and mainstream food manufacturers, with companies who once focused
on nutrition in a capsule now looking to supply functional food
ingredients.

Negativity remains over omega-3, says Frost

07-Feb-2006 By staff reporter

Omega-3 may be a hot topic on everyone's lips, but the industry
still needs to overcome negative perceptions about traditional
sources such as oily fish, according to research analysis by Frost
and Sullivan.

Pharma companies to penetrate further into functional food market

26-Jul-2004

Two years ago Leatherhead Food released a report which described
the functional foods industry as a fragmented market dominated by
mainstream companies. However, as Philippa Nuttall reports,
one analyst thinks this is to change in...

Ingredient supply venture from RFI, Hauser

09-Apr-2002

Two US companies, RFI and Hauser, have joined forces to supply
dietary supplement and functional food ingredients to the
nutraceuticals industry, combining the functional food expertise of
RFI with Hauser's knowledge of the supplements...

More nutritious vegetables round the corner

16-Jan-2002

Understanding why some plants like spinach store much of their
calcium in a crystalline form could help scientists develop more
nutritious varieties of vegetables, reports the Functional Food
Newswire.