Sports Nutrition

Frankfurt, 28 November, 2016

NutraIngredients picks final sports nutrition congress line-up

14-Sep-2016

A controversial Oxford University ketones spin-off; GSK Nutrition on new EU caffeine regulations; and a sports nutrition veteran on what the ‘mainstreaming’ of sports nutrition really means are highlights of a 1-day event in Frankfurt in November.

Today! NutraIngredients-USA's Sports Nutrition Forum

13-Sep-2016 By Adi Menayang

Experts from Douglas Labs, Bodybuilding.com, the International Society of Sports Nutrition, and Mintel will discuss the latest trends in sports nutrition and how to address consumer demands for clean label and transparency in this FREE online forum hosted...

Robuvit supplementation may improve triathlete performance

26-Aug-2016 By Adi Menayang

Supplementation of Robuvit for two weeks cut amateur triathletes' total event times by 11%, researchers in Italy suggested.

A new nootropic in town: Limited Labs launches ‘Dragon’

19-Aug-2016 By Adi Menayang

Online brand Limited Lab launches new nootropic supplement “Dragon,” which contains a blend of Kyowa Hakko’s Cognizin citicoline and Compound Solution’s brand-name theacrine Teacrine.

Sports nutrition market to reach €36bn by 2020

18-Jul-2016 By Eliot Beer

The global sports nutrition market will grow an average of 8.27% a year to reach US$40bn (€36bn) by 2020, with herbal supplements driving much of the growth, according to a report from TechNavio.

China

Regulatory malaise: Why sports nutrition is not racing away

05-Jul-2016 By RJ Whitehead

A lack of sales channels, byzantine regulations and vested interests continue to hamper the development of China’s sports nutrition market, though the winds of change might be blowing over Beijing.

Special Edition: Bone & Joint Health

Can bone and joint support be cool enough for sports nutrition?

22-Jun-2016 By Adi Menayang

Athletes and active people in general tend to put more wear and tear on their bones and joints. But unlike protein or energy, bone & joint supplements aren’t as easy to market as a sport nutrition product.

JW Nutritionals expands, riding the wave of a 'changed' sports nutrition sphere

15-Jun-2016 By Hank Schultz

Texas-based contract manufacturer JW Nutritionals is riding a wave of demand with the opening of a new facility in Plano.

Amway breaks into sports nutrition market with new line

27-May-2016 By Hank Schultz

Amway is building on an earlier acquisition and is seeking to reach new markets with the launch of its XS Sports Nutrition line, the company announced recently.

Texas start-up Too Fit USA brings Paleo-approved sports nutrition

11-May-2016 By Adi Menayang

Founders Jake Huddelston and Joshua Uptmore have both been athletes their whole lives. Being avid users and observers of supplements, they noticed a gap they wanted fill, and a culture they wanted to change. 

Special edition: Gender-specific nutrition

Protein bars are from Mars, fat burners are from Venus: Gender-specific sports nutrition

21-Apr-2016 By Will Chu

As sports nutrition makes gains in the mainstream, the emergence of the fitness-minded female is driving manufacturers to reconsider the typically male-dominated image of the sector.

Low cal sports nutrition products are big stevia opportunity, Cargill says

11-Feb-2016 By Hank Schultz

The exploding sports nutrition market offers significant opportunity for alternative sweeteners taking stevia and erythritol beyond their applications as food ingredients, said Cargill experts.

Finding the right endorsers & mixing the right proteins are part of winning in sports nutrition game, say experts

02-Oct-2015 By Hank Schultz

Opportunities abound in the growing sports nutrition market, speakers on NIU’s recent forum told listeners. The forum, available on demand, covered topics of marketing, formulation and label transparency.

Sports nutrition: NIU forum to explore the trends in the booming sports sector

25-Sep-2015 By Stephen Daniells

Experts from Health Wright, Muscle Pharm, Texas A&M, and Euromonitor will discuss the trends in sports nutrition in a FREE forum hosted by NutraIngredients-USA.

Special edition: Sports nutrition

Booming demand for sports certifications seen as proof industry takes quality seriously

17-Sep-2015 By Hank Schultz

The market for sports certifications continues to boom, with new players entering the market and established brands scrambling to keep up with demand. 

Special edition: Sports nutrition

Carbs to protein ratio for sports nutrition based on ‘old science’, says expert

17-Sep-2015 By Stephen DANIELLS

Continued talk of optimal ratios of carbs and protein in sports products is ‘irrelevant’ and based on old science, sports nutrition experts tell NutraIngredients-USA.

ESSNA: “Thousands of people engaging in sport and activity at all levels use and benefit from legal sports nutrition products."

Euro sports nutrition sector: Supplements no gateway to doping

16-Sep-2015 By Shane STARLING

Consuming sports supplements is not a step on the slippery slope to doping, the European sports nutrition sector has said in response to a US sports coach turned whistle blower who questioned their use.

ESSNA: Specific sports food laws would ‘hurt rather than help’ in Europe

15-Sep-2015 By Shane STARLING

Europe’s peak sports nutrition trade group has affirmed broad support for better and more relevant sports food, drink and supplement regulation across Europe, but emphasised not all parties agree on how to get there.

Bringing our A-game: NIU forums to explore science and trends in booming sports nutrition sector

09-Sep-2015

Experts from ISSN, GENr8, Skratch Labs, Health Wright, Muscle Pharm, Texas A&M, and Euromonitor will discuss the science and trends in sports nutrition in two FREE forums hosted by NutraIngredients-USA.

Sports nutrition expert's advice: Sample the sweat and don't skip the stomach

26-Jun-2015 By Hank Schultz

Exercise physiologist Allen Lim, PhD, the founder of sports nutrition brand Skratch Labs, learned what works to fuel athletes in the crucible of one of the most challenging endurance events the world has to offer—the Tour de France.  What he took away...

Israeli start-up has novel approach for grasshopper shakes

03-Jun-2015 By Niamh Michail

Israeli insect start-up, Steak TzarTzar, aims to target the Western sports nutrition market with its grasshopper protein powder - competitively priced thanks to grasshopper sales in Africa.

NBJ: ‘The US supplement industry is $37 billion, not $12 billion’

01-Jun-2015 By John Bradley, Content Director & Editor-in-chief, Nutrition Business Journal

Let’s get this out of the way: The size of the US supplement industry is roughly $36.7 billion. The $11.8 billion estimate that TABS Group CEO Kurt Jetta announced last week is way off target, as were his attacks on Nutrition Business Journal.

Naturex makes play for natural sports nutrition consumer

29-May-2015 By Niamh Michail

Boosted by botanicals, Naturex's WinDrink range targets a new breed of consumer who is interested in sports nutrition but wary of complex, synthetic ingredients. 

Despite economic uncertainty, Brazilian ingredient market remains promising, exec says

03-Apr-2015 By Hank Schultz

The widely publicized issues affecting the Brazilian economy is a concern for companies selling ingredients there, but the underlying demand for health and wellness products means market growth is still a realistic possibility, says one executive.

$5.9 bn US sports nutrition market unlocking mass appeal: Euromonitor

27-Mar-2015 By Maggie Hennessy

Buoyed by the continued rise of protein as a super-nutrient and a growing urgency around better fitness to stave off lifestyle diseases, sports nutrition is attracting a wider audience of consumers, according to “Trends and Developments in Sports Nutrition”...

Thorne extends sports nutrition efforts with EXOS partnership

24-Mar-2015 By Hank Schultz

Practioner channel specialist Thorne Research has taken another big step into the sports nutrition sphere with a partnership with sports fitness firm EXOS to launch a new line of supplements.

TMR enters sports nutrition sector with pre- and post-workout range

06-Mar-2015 By Stephen DANIELLS

Trace Minerals Research (TMR) is entering the sports nutrition market a range of pre- and post-workout formulations under the name TMRFit series.

Polyphenols, probiotics, delivery systems and sports nutrition: key lessons from 2014's special editions

22-Dec-2014 By Hank Schultz

From polyphenols and prebiotics to a focus on Latin America, healthy aging and functional foods, NutraIngredients-USA’s special editions have set traffic records because of their in-depth coverage and exclusive content.  Today we feature part one of our...

Special edition: Healthy Ageing

Sports manufacturers ‘well placed’ to take advantage of growing healthy ageing market

23-Oct-2014 By Nathan Gray

Manufacturers in the sports nutrition space have the skills and knowledge needed to move in to the much larger and lucrative healthy ageing market, according to the chief technology officer at Lucozade Ribena Suntory.

Insights from Supply Side West

'Fitness' trumps 'sports' in terms of marketing opportunities, AIDP says

15-Oct-2014 By Hank Schultz

Sports nutrition has been a growth driver in the dietary supplement sphere, but one ingredient supplier believes the category can impose a constricting mindset on formulators that can blind them to much broader opportunities.

Demand rising rapidly for beetroot as ingredient's sports nutrition benefits are proven and popularized

30-Sep-2014 By Hank Schultz

The benefits of beetroot juice for sports nutrition got a big public relations boost recently with the news the Auburn University football team drinks the juice before its games.  As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the team began using the ingredient...

Quote/unquote: Gut health, sports nutrition, and curcumin - The best of Bénéfiq 2014

26-Sep-2014 By Stephen DANIELLS

We headed to Quebec City this week to attend the 2nd instalment of Bénéfiq, an international rendezvous on health ingredients, and we’ve plucked a few pearls of wisdom from the podium for your reading pleasure…

NutraIngredients Sports Nutrition 2014 round-table debate

Pro team nutritionist: We can’t get the sports nutrition products we need

19-Sep-2014 By Shane STARLING

The nutritional needs of professional athletes and the general sports playing population are clearly not the same but does the broad sports nutrition market reflect that diversity of need? The Arsenal FC nutritionist and other experts argued the toss...

Accelerating move toward plant proteins shakes up sports nutrition market, expert says

29-Aug-2014 By Hank Schultz

A continued move toward plant proteins will be one of the major trends of the sports nutrition marketplace in the coming 12 months, according to market watcher Tom Vierhile, innovation insights director of the market intelligence firm Datamonitor.

Sports Nutrition 2014 delivers business ammunition

27-Aug-2014 By Shane STARLING

It’s free, jammed full of sports nutrition sector insights – and it’s just days away: Sports Nutrition 2014 .

German border busts reveal banned DMAA still out there (but detection is improving)

22-Jul-2014 By Lynda Searby

Scientists at a German state control laboratory have developed a fast and accurate method of testing whether supplement and sports nutrition products contain the illegal stimulant DMAA (1,3-dimethylamylamine/methylhexaneamine).

Booming demand for sports certification points to need for overall quality assurance, NSF exec says

17-Jun-2014 By Hank Schultz

The growth of the sports nutrition sector has boosted the demand for NSF’s Certified for Sport certification, says Lisa Thomas, the program’s director.  But the reach of the program extends well beyond products meant just for athletes.

NutraIngredients-USA: What’s on our editorial calendar for 2014?

28-May-2014 By Stephen DANIELLS

From polyphenols to nutrigenomics and the opportunities in personalized nutrition, the latest trends in probiotics, sports nutrition, and Latin America, Nutraingredients-USA’s 2014 editorial calendar of special editions spans the hottest trends in the...

Dispatches from Vitafoods Europe 2014

Safe sports nutrition product use is a reality. So are global sports federation rebuttals increasingly ‘outdated’?

13-May-2014 By Shane STARLING

Contamination concerns mean most athletic and sporting federations advise against them despite near-ubiquitous use among top athletes and sportspeople. Busted doped athletes continue to finger them. But sports nutrition products are in a better place...

Special edition: Sports nutrition

Offside! ESSNA blows whistle on athletes’ doping excuses

24-Apr-2014 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.

Special edition: Sports Nutrition

Ban yohimbe just like ephedra, says EU sports nutrition sector

24-Apr-2014 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.

Special Edition: Sports Nutrition

Swisse Wellness on US sports nutrition sector: ‘We think there’s an opportunity in this space to make a big impact’

24-Apr-2014 By Stephen DANIELLS

Changing consumer attitudes to health and similar consumption levels in the US and Australia give Swisse Wellness an opportunity to excite consumers with a new sports nutrition range that is not just focused on the muscle men and gym junkies, says Ulrich...

Infographic

Protein still sports nutrition king, but watch out

06-Feb-2014 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.

Immune health forming larger part of sports nutrition sphere

13-Dec-2013 By Hank Schultz

Immune health is an increasingly large part of the thin edge of the wedge that is sports nutrition, one of the hottest categories in the dietary supplement sphere.

Science, certifications drive export potential of US-made sports nutrition products, experts say

11-Oct-2013 By Hank Schultz

The sports nutrition market continues to expand, and with global demand rising, experts say opportunities are growing, too, for US made products in export markets.

PQQ set to make splash in sports nutrition beverages

06-Aug-2013 By Hank Schultz

Two firms have joined forces to bring the multifunctional molecule pyrroloquinoline quinone, or PQQ, into the sports nutrition market via beverage applications.  The partnership pairs Virun’s delivery technology with Nascent Health Sciences' supply...

Sabinsa rolls out novel Moringa and Boswellia extracts, hails ‘overwhelming response’ to Curcumin C3 Reduct

01-May-2013 By Stephen DANIELLS

Sabinsa Corporation is launching two novel water-soluble ingredients, one from of Boswellia serrata, called Polybos, and the other called MoringIn from Moringa oleifera.

GNC seeks to boost sports market share with new technology, products

06-Mar-2013 By Hank Schultz

Supplement retailing giant GNC has announced new product technologies and marketing initiatives to boost its penetration in the sports nutrition and active lifestyle markets.

Gatorade G Series Fit failed because it offered 'entry level products to advanced users at high prices’, says Euromonitor

14-Feb-2013 By Elaine WATSON

Growth in the US sports nutrition market has been pretty explosive in recent years, but the failure of high profile launches such as PepsiCo’s Gatorade G Series Fit range shows that even the biggest players sometimes get things badly wrong, says one market...

Online event explores future opportunities for $30 billion global sports nutrition market

28-Jan-2013

The future of protein, successful brand strategy, and exclusive insights into market dynamics will take center stage at the upcoming Sports and Lifestyle Nutrition 2013 online event, hosted by NutraIngredients.