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Learn what sets Karallief apart from other botanical ingredient suppliers and how they partner with established consumer brands to bring unique clinically tested and targeted herbal formulas to market.
While forecast for positive growth in the gaming industry continues, new health condition concerns have emerged, illuminating new dietary necessities. For optimal performance, high intensity competitors require focus, stress management, sustained energy, eye health support, sharp reflexes and stamina. This Gamers market is Global and it’s captured the attention of ProCaps Funtrition´s new product development initiatives. Gamers, like all athletes, require clean, sustained energy and support for their particular activity demands. They also need convenient format that can we consumed on-the-fly, in the heat of performance. Funtrition by Procaps has developed a unique formulation that can be created for your private label or brand. Using a blend of non-stimulating efficacious ingredients formulated within clean fruit flavored gummies – including allulose for flavor, botanicals, l-theanine, and more – Funtrition's Game-on formulation meets gamers needs for gaining the competitive edge and can do the same for your gamer sports nutrition brand. Guests Julie Cuello Marketing Coordinator, Funtrition™ by Procaps In Julie’s Strategic Marketing role in Funtrition™, she works to leverage the brand's innovative product development with the purpose of easing their customers' product launch process. She supports the development and execution of varied marketing activities including branding, tradeshow marketing, digital content, press, campaigns. Based in Funtrition™'s headquarters in Colombia, Julie provides an international outlook moved by creativity, combining science and art to create the perfect gummy to market experience. Santiago Martínez Research and Development Analyst, Funtrition™ by Procaps Santiago holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Colombia and specializes in food & beverage R&D. At Funtrition™ Santiago brings his passionate for doing what he loves through science, and has helped create innovative and indulgent products in gummy format.
For brands looking to clean up product labels, soluble rice flour represents a significant advance. Traditional rice flours aren’t very soluble – nowhere near the fully soluble nature of maltodextrin. Cargill’s proprietary technology has provided a way to overcome this hurdle, with the world’s first highly soluble rice flour. Our latest SupplySide Stories podcast addresses how consumer demand for recognizable ingredients continues to grow, pushing food and beverage manufacturers to seek alternatives to less familiar ingredients. Not an easy task. Until now, there have not been viable label friendly options that offer the functionality of maltodextrin. On this episode we delve into what was behind the development of Cargill’s latest addition to its SimPure® brand–soluble rice flour, and explore how this new solution delivers taste, texture and functionality similar to maltodextrin, with the added advantage of an easy-to-understand ingredient declaration. Joining us is Shiva Elayedath, a senior technical manager for Cargill’s Texturizers and Specialties business.
Consumer demand for plant protein options is at an all-time high. Over half of global flexitarian consumers are trying to eat more plant-based products and they are looking for more variety and options beyond the bun. Adding to the desire for more sustainable solutions for personal and environmental health, many consumers are taking a proactive approach to health and wellness, which is pushing them towards seeking out enhanced nutritional value in their foods. It’s imperative that formulators connect with partners that understand these demands, and can provide a variety of solutions to keep up with this changing landscape. That’s where ADM’s plant protein expertise can be a true difference-maker. Our latest SupplySide Stories podcast zeroes in on the the solutions you need to know about to solve formulation challenges that meet the dueling demands of taste and texture, and sustainability.
There are many reasons why consumers today are choosing to reduce meat consumption, or shift their purchases in the direction of plant-forward foods. But even so, many will remain reluctant to make change to meat alternatives if the taste and texture doesn't appeal to their expectations. All the good intentions in the world by a brand-holder won't take a product far in market penetration if customers aren't satisfied enough with their offerings to purchase repeatedly. Solving the peculiar taste and texture formulation challenges for alternative meats requires both a keen understanding of your customer, and the technical know-how to execute a winning product. Our latest SupplySide Stories podcast with alternative meat and plant-based product development expert Mark Fahlin aims to help you get you to your innovation goals more effectively.
Super-antioxidant astaxanthin, derived from natural plant-based algae, provides superior, clinically supported benefits for skin, both ingested and topically.
During this episode of SupplySide Stories podcast, we explore how to bring a hemp CBD product to market in an unregulated and uncertain regulatory environment. We sit down with Justin Singer, CEO & Co-Founder of Caliper Foods, as he shares his thoughts on how to innovate in this environment responsibly while accounting for pervasive regulatory uncertainty.
In a mid-west small town about 40 years ago, a man selling eggs out of the back of a family station wagon purchased after his tour in the Korean war began creating the business that is now Stratum Nutrition. Today Stratum has evolved into a company that prides itself on understanding that growth relies on being proactive and nurturing relationships, and that sustainability and rigorous science are essential factors for long term human and planetary health. Listen in today and learn about: · What it means to to be a "proactive" ingredient partner · How sustainability from the ground up at ingredient company's plays out with the end consumer. · Why deepening supply chain relationships and commitments creates competitive advantages for brands. · The value of authentic sustainable agricultural practices in the development of unique ingredients. Pull quote: "Of course our customers come to us for ingredients, but what really separates Stratum from the rest has more to do with the relationships that we build and what we provide to our brand partners – we don't just stop at selling the ingredients." – Andrew Rice, Stratum Nutrition
Growth in the plant-based foods sector is indisputable, but creating products that meet consumer preferences with great taste and texture requires more than an idea. Multiple sources and food technologies are required.
In this episode of SupplySide Stories, we talk with Paul Garrett, CEO and managing director of Marinova, about the power of fucoidan (that slimy stuff that's on seaweed!) Scientists and formulators continue to scour land and sea for the world's most powerful nutritional ingredients. Here, Paul Garrett, CEO and managing director of Marinova, discusses why fucoidan--a highly bioactive seaweed-derived ingredient holds much promise for the future of dietary supplements. In nature, it protects seaweed from environmental factors; learn what it does for human health during this episode of SupplySide Stories.
Probiotics are beneficial not only for digestive health benefits. A healthy microbiome is critical for overall wellbeing. But formulating with probiotics can be tricky, consumers desire the benefits within many different types of products. Learn how to meet the challenges.
In this episode of SupplySide Stories, we talk with Ana Ferrell, vice president global marketing, human nutrition at ADM, about global health trends and the future of wellness innovation.
Ken Iverson, farmer, draws upon multi-generational farming knowledge to growing industrial hemp for consumer products. He has been responsible for creating industry leading standards for cultivation and extraction. Learn more from the FSOil co-founder.
Avena foods business is anchored in strong relationships with farmers and exemplary food safety and quality management systems. The company's pulse division, formerly Best Cooking Pulses, Inc., has been active in the international trade pulse since 1936, developing value-added pulse products since the 1980’s.
Learn about the importance of sustainable and environmentally-friendly consumption and production of botanical ingredients, the immorality of waste, and how commitments to farmers supports a regenerative system.
Learn about how light weight, durable, rigid containers from recycled materials and other sustainable resins are meeting the performance and environmental objectives that today's sustainable values brands require.
Vanilla is a slow art. Sustainable production requires absolute dedication to the craft of its harvesting, curing, and extraction, and commitments to "farmer direct" relationships. This episode of SupplySide Stories digs into the details behind this unique ingredient.
The team at ADM is using science to drive innovation and bring personalized health solutions to consumers during a time when they're demanding more from their products and turning to nutrition to support their health and wellness--everything from immunity to mood. In this episode of SupplySide Stories podcast, we explore what nutrition innovation means to Janice M.W. Rueda, Ph.D., vice president, nutrition science business development at ADM.
In this episode of SupplySide Stories, we spoke with Dr. Michael Crabtree about Bioenergy Ribose and RiaGev and their benefits for cellular health and healthy aging.
In this episode of SupplySide Stories, we talk with Kara Bortone, senior director of portfolio sourcing and management, Johnson & Johnson Innovation JLabs, about an exciting new initiative that cultivates innovation in natural immune support.
In this episode of SupplySide Stories we discuss Brookside Flavors' unique modulator technology and how the company partners with customers to design optimal flavor profiles for specific applications.
In this episode of SupplySide Stories, we talk with Esther Meima, sales director at Daabon USA, and Alex Gallup, Sales Representative at Daabon USA, about integrity in palm production and how the company is using its three Ps as the foundation for palm's sustainable future.
In this episode of SupplySide Stories, we talk with Mark Webster, vice president, sales & business development at T. Hasegawa about innovations in flavor profiles in the functional food and beverage world.
In this episode of SupplySide Stories, we talk with Wade Schmelzer, principal food scientist at Cargill about sweetener options and customer concerns around formulation.