News, Analysis & Insights on Nutrition, Supplements, and Health
Leading Brands, the Canadian beverage manufacturer and distributor, has begun shipments of its new "optimised performance beverage" TREK after an extremely positive reaction from distributors involved in earlier trials.
Mannatech, the US company which produces nutritional supplements, has received a European patent for it glyconutrient blend.
Gum Tech, the Utah-based company which produces the Zicam homeopathic cold remedy and other innovative pharmaceutical products, has announced plans to change its name to Matrixx Initiatives and to launch a number of new products within the Zicam range.
Zoe Foods to sell its flax and soy products via Wild Harvest stores in 70 Shaw's supermarkets in the US.
Wild Oats Markets, the US-based natural and organic foods retailer, has signed a distribution deal with the Dutch food producer Koninklijke Wessanen whose Tree of Life unit already distributes natural food products throughout the US.
Researchers from the USDA's Agricultural Research Centre and Purdue University have created a tomato which has nearly three-and-a-half times the usual amount of the carotenoid as a happy side effect of a GM process.
Researchers from Canada have discovered that many dietary supplement users are unaware of the tolerable upper limits and as such could be putting themselves at risk instead of doing themselves some good.