Early studies on animals have linked consumption of polyphenol-rich berries to improvements in some cognitive markers. This has warranted studies on humans, and results are shedding more light on how berries may benefit our brain health.
Asia-Pacific's growing ageing population has led to increased innovation in the bone and joint health supplement space, but products targeting more life stages and categories are also finding success in the sector.
French company Robertet is bringing its health and beauty businesses into China, after it first established its flavours and fragrances business in the country 10 years ago.
Glanbia Nutritionals is seeking to propel its growth in China via general lifestyle nutrition, in addition to its sports nutrition stronghold, with a key focus on creating new concepts in tandem with its customers.
Australian social influencer-backed health and wellness company Keep It Cleaner is banking on minimalist ingredients and multi-faceted expansion to break into the Asian market.
Taiwanese firm Chambio is eyeing the oral care, weight management, and immune health markets in China with heat-killed postbiotics, the metabolic by-product of probiotics.
Standardization in herbal products will boost consumer acceptance and market uptake, says Sabinsa president Shaheen Majeed, using the company’s Shagandha ashwaganda ingredient as an example.
Australian firms Entity Health and Pharmako Biotechnologies have identified the key factors supplement firms should consider when investing in delivery system innovation in APAC.
Customisation of fish and krill oil via delivery system technology is key to maximising the absorption qualities of omega-3, with three recent trials underlining its significance.
Industry has a crucial role to play in educating policymakers about the maternal and prenatal benefits of omega-3 supplementation, on the back of new and "compelling evidence".
Asia is the region most ripe for omega-3 growth, providing the sector focuses on credibility, convenience, and delivery system innovation, according to François Scheffler, BASF's Senior Vice President of Global Human Nutrition.
As APAC's sports nutrition sector continues evolving to cater to a growing number of consumers, we speak to two industry players who tell us what businesses can do to bring sports nutrition further into the mainstream.
In our latest Nutrition Asia video series, we find out what parents in APAC want, what new infant formula innovations to expect this year, and how industry can better provide for children’s nutritional needs.
Interest in nutrition, exercising and following a healthy lifestyle has become the focus of an increasing number of consumers, who look to professional athletes as examples of peak physical conditioning.
The latest omega-3 research, product innovation spanning combinations of ingredients, and the strengths and weaknesses of consumer understanding across the region are all covered in our latest Nutrition Asia video series, featuring insights form two category...
Increased consumer awareness around probiotics – linked to an ever growing body of benefits – is opening up new markets around the world, with China booming and new opportunities in Latin America, says George Paraskevakos, executive director of the International...
Probiotics have shown significant benefits for three of Asia-Pacific's biggest growing health sectors, namely — infant nutrition, weight management and healthy ageing, according to an expert from DuPont.
Companies seeking to commercialise a probiotic product across the globe face a 'daunting task', which is why trade association the International Probitics Association (IPA) is vowing not to let up in its efforts to achieve a more consistent...
Internal alignment within a nutrition company is just as important as external collaboration, in order to ensure that the regulatory environment is as favourable and effective as possible.
ChromaDex has been expanding steadily in Asia-Pacific, first launching its signature nicotinamide riboside (NR) supplement, TRU NIAGEN, in Hong Kong and Macau last year, followed by Singapore early this year and most recently, New Zealand.
Gencor's ActivAMP ingredient, a finalist in the Ingredient of the Year: Healthy Ageing category at the inaugural NutraIngredients-Asia Awards, has been described as 'exercise in a supplement' for its ability to maintain and increase metabolism...
'Health-washing' products with a sprinkling of probiotics risks drawing the sector into disrepute, and could threaten the concerted growth the industry is currently enjoying, claims Blackmores' director of product innovation.
AstaReal has unveiled two functional beverage prototypes — one to aid stress management and the other to boost muscle health in seniors — and picked up a Vitafoods Asia award in the process.
Inger Reidun F. Aukrust, PhD, a leading expert in vitamin K and vice president of R&D chemistry at Kappa Bioscience, has been crowned our first NutraChampion.
Algalif received the award for the Ingredient of the Year: Healthy Ageing at our first NutraIngredients-Asia awards in Singapore with its Astalif astaxanthin product.
Growing understanding of sarcopenia among the region's medical community is now filtering down to consumers, who will be increasingly looking for preventive supplement solutions.
Singapore-based supplement firm Senescence Life Sciences is seeking to collaborate with major industry players to advance its work around cognitive health in the region.
'Engay' food, produced for patients suffering from the swallowing disorder dysphagia, can provide tasty, nutritious and enjoyable meals for APAC's growing ageing population, according to one of the pioneering Japanese companies behind the...
South East Asia's fortified food market is at a tipping point where it is ready to progress from fortification with traditional vitamins and minerals, and move towards specialised ingredients such as asataxanthin.
DuPont has set out its stall to help food firms make nutritious, but just as importantly, pleasurable foods that the elderly population would want to eat.
Far from following in the footsteps of Europe and the US, the Asia-Pacific region has the potential to be the global leader for food reformulation, in order to create healthier projects for its growing, and rapidly ageing, populations.
The promise of personalised nutrition has been cooled somewhat by the issues surrounding the use of sensitive personal health data, given by the consumer in order to utilise personalised nutrition services.
There is compelling evidence to back supplementation with omega-3, vitamin D and macular carotenoids to improve health outcomes as people age, according to the head of the Blackmores Institute.
Research presented at the recent Probiota Americas meeting showed that adding prebiotics to the diet to promote the growth of beneficial gut bacteria actually altered the structure of rats' brains in a model testing stress response.