A recent trend popping up in health food is that of boxed snacks sent to customers’ doors on a monthly basis. Online-based snack companies are packaging dried fruits, seeds, nuts and other nutritious goodies and shipping them out to their customers each month. Some pre-made packages come in themes like...
An annual growth rate of 41% is highly impressive for any business or industry. Would you believe that fair trade and eco-friendly products are currently seeing just such an explosion? The good news comes in a report called The State of Sustainability Initiatives Review 2014, compiled by a coalition of...
A preview of the events to come at Expo West.When the alarm clock rings on March 6, there’s a good chance you’ll be saying, “Good morning, Anaheim!” From March 6 to 9, more than 60,000 natural products industry members will once again convene at the Anaheim Convention Center for Natural...
Sabinsa Corporation broke ground on a new continuous extraction facility in Karnataka, India, that will increase production capacity by 200%. The $5-million, 75,000-ft2 expansion will feature a 25 MT/day capacity continuous extractor, a 15,000-ft2 downstream facility, a new microbiology lab and a 45,000-ft2 warehouse. The project should be finished...
Big Sandy, MT—A third and final paper on a branded khorasan wheat (Kamut) shows that those with non-celiac wheat sensitivities may tolerate the ancient wheat better than modern wheat. A paper published in Food Research International 2014 follows a study on the difference in inflammation and oxidative stress between rats...
Omaha, NE—A two-year study out of the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) shows a prominent decrease in the symptoms of chronic hives as a result of vitamin D3 supplementation. Chronic hives, an allergic skin condition marked by itchy red welts on the skin and swelling, has no known cause...
A group of 41 scientists and experts have signed a public statement, hosted at endsciencecensorship.org, condemning the retraction of the Séralini study by the editor of the Elsevier journal Food and Chemical Toxicology. The study found that rats fed genetically modified maize and Roundup herbicide developed tumors and died...
Gaia Herbs of Brevard, NC, welcomed Guinevere C. Lynn as director of sales. Ashish Sehgal is now president of Sabinsa Europe GmbH, based in Langen, Germany. Jon Tilyard joined Sabinsa Australia of Woolloomooloo NSW, as general manager and Alison Dear joined as technical advisor. Robin Luo joined Novel Ingredient...
Faye Glazer, a natural products pioneer, passed away at the end of January. With roots in retailing, Glazer worked at Jandi’s Nature Way in Oceanside, NY, beginning in 1982, and moved to Cornucopia Natural Foods in 1987, where she stayed for 12 years. Glazer went on to become a founding...
B&D Nutritional Ingredients of Vista, CA, released an infographic on the Surprising Costs of a Sick Day. According to the firm, “while the total economic impact of colds ($40 billion) adds up to $127 per person, per year, the cost of flus clocked in at just under $200 per...
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