Probiotics, prebiotics & postbiotics

Mediterranean diet pattern leads to healthier gut profile: Study

26-Apr-2018 By Stephen Daniells

Eating a Mediterranean-type diet, rich in vegetables, fruits and nuts, olive oil, and legumes, may boost the diversity and composition of the gut microbiota, compared to a high-fat and high-sugar Western-style diet.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Dannon continues yogurt and gut microbiome exploration with $50,000 in fellowship grants

25-Apr-2018 By Mary Ellen Shoup

As part of Danone North America, the Dannon Probiotics Fellowship Grant Program has awarded two graduate students with $25,000 each to help fund their independent and novel studies of yogurt, probiotics, and the human gut microbiome.

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Health Canada grants health claims for LAFTI L10 for active adults

25-Apr-2018 By Stephen Daniells

Lallemand Health Solutions has been granted two new health claims for its probiotic strain Lactobacillus helveticus LAFTI L10 for active adults by Health Canada.

Twinlab / Reserveage launch new products for sleep, heart health, and for her

25-Apr-2018 By Stephen Daniells

The company used the recent Expo West show in Anaheim to discuss a raft of new products developed by collaborating with some big name experts.

Blueberry supplementation may impact gut microbiota and inflammation

25-Apr-2018 By Stephen Daniells

Anthocyanin-rich blueberries may change the composition of our gut microbiota and produce improvements in systemic inflammation, suggests a new study with rats.

RCT supports probiotics LGG and BB-12 for teen oral health

24-Apr-2018 By Stephen Daniells

A combination of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) and Bifidobacterium lactis BB-12 may improve the gingival health in adolescents, according to results of a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial.

IPA explains rationale for harmonized probiotic guidelines at Codex

17-Apr-2018 By Stephen Daniells

The development of guidelines and a harmonized framework for probiotics in Codex is necessary to ensure and sustain quality probiotic products on a global scale, says the International Probiotics Association (IPA).

Who’s your NutraChampion? Nominations open for our inaugural award

16-Apr-2018 By Stephen Daniells

In this year’s inaugural NutraIngredients-USA Awards we will honor those who have gone above and beyond for the betterment of the industry, and left a lasting impression for all to see.

Baby boomers are the past and present of the nutraceuticals industry, millennials and Gen Z are the future

12-Apr-2018 By Mary Ellen Shoup

The needs of aging baby boomers is shaping the future of the nutraceutical industry, research done by Vitafoods Europe suggests, but the US market is telling a different story, according to co-founder and chief marketing officer of BrandHive, Jeff Hilton....

Positivity reigns! Results of the 2nd annual NutraIngredients-USA reader survey

11-Apr-2018 By Stephen Daniells

Results of the 2nd annual NutraIngredients-USA reader survey are in, and the responses are hugely positive for the dietary supplements industry.

Green banana flour: A powerful new tool in the digestive health toolbox?

09-Apr-2018 By Elaine Watson

Milled starchy unripe bananas – which are low in sugar and high in RS2 resistant starch – can help people better control their blood glucose, but they also confer an exciting range of digestive benefits, making them a powerful new gut health ingredient,...

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GNC partners with Rapid Nutrition to enter Australian market

05-Apr-2018 By Adi Menayang

Pittsburgh-headquartered retailer GNC announced today that its products are entering the Australian market through a partnership with Rapid Nutrition.

Got what it takes to win a NutraIngredients-USA Award? Submit your entries!

03-Apr-2018 By Stephen Daniells

We are pleased to announce the launch of the NutraIngredients-USA Awards to honor the best and brightest in ingredients, finished products, companies, people, and initiatives in the dietary supplements and nutrition industries.

NATURAL PRODUCTS NEW ZEALAND SUMMIT 2018

China cross-border e-commerce access: 'Too early to say what will happen in 2019' – trade expert

02-Apr-2018 By Gary Scattergood

Exporters to China have been told to 'watch this space' over cross-border e-commerce rules, which provide the easiest access to the nation's soaring supplement market, but are due to end this year.

How our gut bacteria interacts with tryptophan digestion may hold clues for IBD, researcher says

29-Mar-2018 By Adi Menayang

There is evidence that when food-microbe interactions are broken, conditions such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) can develop, but underlying factors are still unclear. One McMaster University researcher has won a grant to study the relationship...

Synbiotic encapsulation could boost probiotic survival rate

26-Mar-2018 By Tim Cutcliffe

An alginate-prebiotic material used to encapsulate probiotic bacteria could offer developers improved survival rates, suggest researchers.

Special Edition: Sports Nutrition

Immense potential: Can microbiome science and probiotic developments drive sports nutrition gains?

21-Mar-2018 By Nathan Gray

Insights gained from developments in microbiome science could have huge potential to boost sports performance through nutrition — with recent findings showing the make-up of our gut bacteria can help shape elite athletic performance and sports recovery.

Watch: Danone targets big data and machine learning to create tailored infant nutrition products

21-Mar-2018 By Gary Scattergood

Danone Nutrition has unveiled its Precision Nutrition D-Lab in Singapore, showcasing some of the technology that will help the company create the next generation of infant nutrition products.

Despite murky understanding, prebiotics market booms on general interest in microbiome health, exec says

20-Mar-2018 By Hank Schultz

Prebiotics are riding a wave of consumer interest in microbiome health, a sales executive says. The ingredients themselves are still poorly understood but continue to ride the coattails of probiotics, he said.

Special Edition: Botanicals

Unique botanical feedstock gives rise to promising prebiotic

19-Mar-2018 By Hank Schultz

Botanicals are often thought of as powdered ingredients that go into tea-like preparations or find their way into capsules as powders or extracts. But botanical feedstocks can also give rise to other categories of ingredients, such as Prenexus Health’s...

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Viva 5 licenses NUtech Ventures’ probiotic for new synbiotic product

16-Mar-2018 By Adi Menayang

Viva 5 will be the exclusive worldwide distributor of a new synbiotic ingredient—a combination of probiotic and prebiotic—after signing a licensing agreement with NUtech Ventures, the technology commercialization affiliate for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

NOW Sports to relabel all products with Informed Sport third-party certification

16-Mar-2018 By Adi Menayang

Illinois-based supplement maker NOW Foods has started a relabeling project so that all products in its sports nutrition line, NOW Sports, will bear the silver Informed Sport seal, certifying third-party verification.

In conversation with Jas Krdzalic, CEO of BodyBuilding.com

‘Our content helps people not quit early on in their fitness journey’: BodyBuilding.com CEO

14-Mar-2018 By Stephen Daniells

NutraIngredients-USA traveled to Boise, Idaho to the HQ of BodyBuilding to catch up with its (relatively new) CEO, Jas Krdzalic, to talk about a wide variety of topics. In Part 3 we cover the company’s approach to education and content, and how these...

Probiotics 2.0: Are postbiotics a contender to better address skin and gut health?

13-Mar-2018 By Will Chu

Postbiotics—the metabolites and/or cell-wall components released by probiotics—have been touted to play a more active, upgraded role, surpassing probiotics as a way to enhance functional food.

Baby supplements maker Wellements expands with new products

12-Mar-2018 By Adi Menayang

Arizona-based Wellements launched four new dietary supplements, two of which are going into distribution with Walgreens, the company announced at the Natural Products Expo West Show last weekend.

Chicory root dietary fiber improved bowel regularity in Beneo-backed study

07-Mar-2018 By Adi Menayang

Daily supplementation of 15 g of oligofructose—a dietary fiber found in chicory roots—significantly increased stool frequency per week, according to a recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Memphis.

Company founded on probiotic for renal health branches out with prebiotic offering

05-Mar-2018 By Hank Schultz

Kibow Biotech, an R&D company founded on a novel probiotic that claims to deal with high uric acid levels, has extended its product offerings with a general probiotic supplement and most recently a multi-fiber prebiotic.

Probiotics and fish oil during pregnancy could cut children’s allergy risk

02-Mar-2018 By Tim Cutcliffe

Allergy and eczema risk in infants and toddlers may be reduced if mothers take probiotics and fish oil supplements during pregnancy, suggest researchers.

Potato-derived prebiotic shows insulin resistance benefits in study

28-Feb-2018 By Hank Schultz

A recent study conducted in Canada demonstrated that a potato-derived resistant starch showed positive results in lowering insulin resistance in elderly subjects.

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Deerland to debut anti-aging ingredient Solarplast at Engredea 2018

28-Feb-2018 By Adi Menayang

Ingredient maker Deerland Enzymes & Probiotics has launched a new product, Solarplast, an extract of enzymatically enhanced organic dark leafy greens.

Consumer acceptance: Novel probiotics are beneficial, but the food industry is 'its own worst enemy' on GM technologies

22-Feb-2018 By Nathan Gray

Efforts to mine for hugely beneficial new strains of probiotics are gaining momentum across the globe, but the food industry is its own worst enemy when it comes to aiding consumer acceptance of new technologies, according to experts at the recent IPA...

Probiotic GanedenBC30 may boost protein absorption and utilization: Review

16-Feb-2018 By Stephen Daniells

Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086 (GanedenBC30) may boost the adsorption and digestion of protein and improve muscle health in different populations, according to a review of the current science.

Special Edition: Innovation in Dietary Supplements

Despite hubbub surrounding functional foods, innovation in solid delivery forms still churning

15-Feb-2018 By Hank Schultz

While many observers say functional food delivery modes are the wave of the future, capsules, softgels and tablets will always be the mainstay of the dietary supplement industry, and innovation is continuing even in this legacy delivery mode.

View from the Editor's Chair

Where’s the innovation in dietary supplements? Part 2: From delivery to personalization

15-Feb-2018 By Stephen Daniells

In part 2 of my two part series on innovation, I will look at innovation in delivery techniques and the rise of customization and personalization in dietary supplements.

View from the Editor's Chair

Where’s the innovation in dietary supplements? Part 1: From supply chain to new science

15-Feb-2018 By Stephen Daniells

A couple of years ago the CEOs of some of the industry’s specialist retailers were lamenting what they saw as a lack of innovation in dietary supplements, but there is much to be excited about in dietary supplements and innovation is everywhere.

‘Probiotics are on the verge of exploding in China’: Recent conference shows vast potential of market in its infancy

08-Feb-2018 By Stephen Daniells

Growth in probiotics is outstripping all other categories in dietary supplements in the US, but on the other side of the world the market is only now beginning to develop.

Health Canada approves IBS claims for Lallemand probiotic B. LAFTI B94

07-Feb-2018 By Adi Menayang

A probiotic strain marketed by Lallemand Health Solutions has been granted new health claims related to Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) by Canadian health authority Health Canada.

Probiotic may help beat the common cold, suggests study

07-Feb-2018 By Tim Cutcliffe

A proprietary mixture of two probiotic strains developed by Swedish company Probi AB may help people catch fewer winter colds. Details of the study will be revealed in a webinar on March 1st.

Bay Area brand Ample wants to redefine ‘meal replacements’

06-Feb-2018 By Adi Menayang

Ample’s founder and CEO Connor Young isn’t so keen on the term ‘meal replacement.’ “The term makes it seem as if we’re trying to replace a food—this is a meal, just in a liquid form,” he told NutraIngredients-USA.

Nearly half of Americans take a supplement during flu outbreak, survey finds

02-Feb-2018 By Adi Menayang

A new survey of 1,035 adults revealed that 60% are extremely concerned about contracting a new or particularly resilient strain of flu this year, and 47% take vitamin C or a preventative supplement as a precaution.

NutraIngredients-USA 2018 predictions, Part 2: From CBD, Amazon, personalization & more

31-Jan-2018 By Stephen Daniells

Carrying on from Part 1 yesterday, we round out our predictions for the US dietary supplements industry in 2018, including CBD, transparency, personalized nutrition, Amazon, the food-supplement interface, and Congress.

China supplement giant BY-HEALTH to buy Australian probiotic firm Life-Space Group for $690m

31-Jan-2018 By Gary Scattergood

Yet another Australian supplement brand is set for a Chinese takeover, with BY-HEALTH agreeing to pay $690m for probiotic firm Life-Space Group.

MSPrebiotics gets FODMAP Friendly certification for resistant starch ingredient

30-Jan-2018 By Stephen Daniells

Manitoba, Canada-based MSPrebiotics Inc has received FODMAP Friendly certification, with updated logos for the products expected to hit shelves in spring 2018.

NutraIngredients-USA 2018 predictions, Part 1: The microbiome, adaptogens, nootropics & more

30-Jan-2018 By Stephen Daniells

As the New Year begins, NutraIngredients-USA looks at some of the big trends, hot ingredients, and strong influences affecting the US dietary supplements industry in 2018.

Vitafoods survey shows digestive health is top concern for industry – for the first time

Gut feelings: Digestive health is top of the agenda for nutraceutical industry

30-Jan-2018 By Nathan Gray

An increasing consumer interest in probiotics and the microbiome could be one reason why digestive health has hit the top of the nutraceutical and functional food industry agenda for the first time, say experts.

Studies drill down to how elderberry ingredient provides immune support via microbial reaction in gut

29-Jan-2018 By Hank Schultz

Developing research in the area of gut health and its connection to immune support has opened a new door for flavonoid-rich ingredients, a supplier says.

Could SAD be new marketing angle for probiotics?

26-Jan-2018 By Hank Schultz

Seasonal Affective Disorder is a surprisingly common complaint, and might provide another avenue for probiotic manufacturers to market their products, a nutritionist has said.

‘The meal replacement category is on fire,’ says founder of ketogenic beverage brand Bear Squeeze

25-Jan-2018 By Adi Menayang

Packed with MCT oil, kale, pumpkin seed protein and probiotics, start-up Bear Squeeze wants to be known as a “higher-end, cleaner Soylent,” said co-founder and president Max Baumann.

'We hoped to provide a product that met your high standards for food that fuels an epic life...'

Nomva no more… Probiotic 'super smoothie' brand Nomva calls it quits

24-Jan-2018 By Elaine Watson

Phenomenal Foods – the Los Angeles-based start-up behind probiotic-fueled organic fruit & veggie snack brand Nomva – has called it a day just over two years after launching in southern California.

Probiotic Bacillus subtilis may help improve occasional constipation: Deerland study

22-Jan-2018 By Stephen Daniells

A daily dose of Bacillus subtilis DE111 may help improve occasional constipation and / or diarrhea in healthy individuals, says a new study by Deerland Enzymes and Probiotics.