Frankfort, KY - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is pushing to legalize hemp as an agricultural commodity. On Monday, the GOP leader and Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles (R-KY) announced their plan to introduce legislation in the U.S. Senate to support Kentucky’s hemp industry. The Hemp Farming...
More consumers are making short stops at Whole Foods Markets that have installed Amazon lockers and many of them are likely to be incremental customers. These short, or “micro” visits, which can be from three to five minutes long, are up by 11% since Amazon closed its purchase of Whole...
Austin, TX — Tieraona Low Dog, MD, has received the American Botanical Council's (ABC) first annual Fredi Kronenberg Award for Excellence in Research and Education in Botanicals for Women’s Health. Low Dog is a highly respected expert in integrative medicine and women’s health. [caption id="attachment_57284" align="alignright" width="250"] Fredi Kronenberg, PhD[/caption]...
Carthage, MO — Stratum Nutrition, an NSF-certified manufacturer of eggshell and eggshell membrane wellness ingredients, announced a first-of-its-kind joint health study published in the journal Clinical Interventions in Aging, evaluating its triple-action joint health ingredient, NEM brand eggshell membrane, in subjects with healthy joints. The results of this peer-reviewed study...
Expanding on its strategy to deliver natural products, Swiss company Givaudan — global leader in the creation of flavors and fragrances — agreed to acquire 40.6% of the shares of plant-based ingredient manufacturer Naturex, for a premium price of $1.6 billion. The valuation is unusually high for the health-care and...
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1522372714328{padding-top: 15px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]MERIVA® Curcumin Phytosome® is a product that, thanks to its characteristics, can represent a reference model for a new type of relationship between the active biological components of turmeric, namely curcuminoids, and the maintenance of our lives. The MERIVA® concept is based on a biomimetic scientific approach...
New Brunswick, N.J. — Nutritional ingredient company Natreon was granted U.S. Patent 9,901,596 for 3-hydroxy-dibenzo-α-pyrone (3-OH-DBP), also known as Urolithin B, a natural bioactive present in shilajit, for help with weight management. International patents are pending, the company said. Natreon was also issued a US patent (US 8,894,993) in 2014...
Washington, D.C. - The Natural Products Association (NPA) this week provided the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with details supporting health claims that soy protein helps combat coronary heart disease. The FDA is proposing to revoke its regulation authorizing health claims on the relationship between soy protein and coronary heart disease...
In this podcast, WholeFoods Magazine editors Laurie Petersen and Sebastian Krawiec discuss what caught their eye at Natural Products Expo West 2018 in Anaheim, CA. Click the arrow to begin the podcast. If you'd like to be alerted whenever we add another podcast, follow The Natural View on Soundcloud. Thanks...
Anaheim, CA — Another Natural Products Expo West has come and gone. Bigger every year, Expo this year saw over 85,000 attendees and 3,521 exhibitors, 600 of which were first time exhibitors, according to New Hope Network. This means that the industry continues to grow. According to preliminary 2017 estimates...
