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Brand new: Amwayโs longevity and gut health focus, NYO3’s krill oil strategy and more
Amway expands Nutrilite range with longevity, health span, gut microbiome solutions – WATCHโ Amway is paying more attention to longevity, health span, and gut microbiome as it expands the range of products and solutions for its flagship brand Nutrilite. The brand celebrates its 90thโ year anniversary this year and has been looking at how it…
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Trend tracker: Fish oil supply, innovation in ginseng, krill oil and more
Australia aims to take back Chinaโs no. 1 health supplements exporter spot from the USโโ Australia is aiming to topple the US as Chinaโs number one health supplements exporter โ a title which it first held in 2018 โ on the back of warming political relations and market-focused NPD. Australia became Chinaโs largest exporter for…
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June 2024 launchpad: New products meet dietary requirements, diversify formats
Omega Activeโ Omega Active is an Omega-3 supplement by Ireland-based brand Revive Active, providing 1,362mg of Omega-3 fish oil per two-capsule serving, including 756mg EPA and 504mg DHA. The โthe world’s first omega-3 supplement using a plant-based enteric shellโ features a shell that prevents breakdown in the stomach, aiding absorption and eliminating fishy aftertaste. Recommended…
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Cargill eyes long-term growth with solutions in multiple sectors
โCargill has been active in the nutrition space for over 40 years through early life nutrition, and today, one in 10 babies consume products containing Cargill ingredients,โ he noted during the recent Vitafoods tradeshow. โEarly life nutrition has given us the foundations, and we want to expand on it.โ Boetje explained that the early life…
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GC Rieber opens $75M sustainable omega-3 plant
Completed two years earlier than estimated, the $75 million project will allow it to cater to the growing demand for sustainable, traceable, high-quality omega-3s. The manufacturing facilityย fully aligns with theย EU Green Deal initiativesโย and theย UN Global Compact guidelinesโย andย makes GC Rieber VivoMega one of the worldโs largest fish and algae manufacturing and storage facilities.ย The facility includes:…
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Omega-3 supplementation may reduce aggression in kids and adults: Meta-analysis
Data from almost 4,000 participants collected over 28 years indicated that omega-3 supplementation may reduce both reactive and proactive forms of aggression in the short-term, albeit modestly, according to the meta-analysis published in Aggression and Violent Behavior.โ โRegarding clinical implications, based on these findings, our considered opinion is that there is now sufficient evidence to…
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Fish oil consumption leads to mixed outcomes for prevention of cardiovascular events
However, the research highlights that the supplements could also be beneficial, slowing the progression of poor cardiovascular health and lowering the risk of death. These mixed findings were part of a large-scale study in the United Kingdom of 415,737 participants and was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. โโWhen we divided major adverse…
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Olive oil consumption may curb dementia-related death risk: Harvard study
Between May 2022 and July 2023, researchers from the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Healthย analyzed data from 92,383 women and men who participated in the Nursesโ Health Study (NHS) and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS), both conducted from 1990 to 2018. Subjects (65.6% women) had a mean age of 56 years and were cancer- and…
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Mice study supports omega-3 role in longevity
Polish and American scientists publishing in the journalย Clinical Nutrition โreportedย a positive correlation between n-3 FA and telomere length in fat-1 transgenic mice as compared to their wild-type siblings, indicating a slower rate of age-related telomere shortening in the former. โThis study, for the first time in a unique animal model free of dietary confounders, has…
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Epax reduces carbon emissions with renewable energy transition
The company reported that it decreased its CO2ย emissions by 13.3% between 2021 and 2022 and by 9% between 2022 and 2023, noting that bothย are significantly higher than the 4.2% annual reduction required to limit global warming to 1.5ยฐC as called for in the Paris Agreement.ย “Analyzing the whole value chain is the most important aspect…