Healthy INSIDER Podcast
528 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNatural Products INSIDER is home to the latest news updates, research and analysis for manufacturers and marketers of dietary supplements.
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SupplySide West podcast: Capitalizing on new product opportunities in the beverage sector
September 20, 2018 17:42 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBDeveloping a great-tasting functional beverage comes with challenges, but it’s far from impossible if you follow a few key guidelines.
SupplySide West Podcast: Using Blockchain to Drive Positive Change from Farm to Brand
September 19, 2018 15:51 - 10 minutes - 9.79 MBThe supply chain is becoming more connected and technology is driving transparency into the sourcing process. New solutions around blockchain can connect brands with their primary suppliers—even back to the farm—to create tangible, verifiable impacts. Christian Shearer of Regen Network and Terra Genesis discusses the potential.
SupplySide West Podcast: Gen Z focus on health and thrift
September 12, 2018 17:14 - 10 minutes - 9.97 MBGeneration Z, those 20 years and younger, have had a short time to establish their shopping habits, but they have already have their own rules for what qualifies as a healthy product. They want brands to have helpful ingredients, demonstrate responsible social values and play a role in their overall holistic health, but Gen Z are frugal shoppers concerned with price point. In this podcast, Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, INSIDER, discusses Gen Z with Shelley Balanko, Ph.D., senior vice pre...
SupplySide West Podcast: The basics and the nitty gritty of quality agreements
September 05, 2018 15:07 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBRachel Adams, managing editor, and Kurt Schneider, president of Tech Bridge West, review the basics of quality agreements in a contact manufacturer partnership, along with real-world examples and red flags that underscore the importance of an adequate, well-executed quality agreement.
SupplySide West podcast – Exploring the Connection Between Organic & Regenerative Agriculture
August 29, 2018 15:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBInforma’s Heather Granato talks with Jeff Moyer of The Rodale Institute about organic and regenerative agriculture, and the ways brands can deliver truly healthy products to their consumers.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Exploring Technology & Transparency – podcast part 1
August 22, 2018 14:58 - 6 minutes - 6.35 MBTechnology is transforming the supply chain, improving companies’ abilities to produce ingredients and bring them to market, as well as make it easier to access information at any point of production. On a trip to China, Informa’s Heather Granato discussed the topic with professionals from companies including ADH Health, Cott Beverage Solutions, Innophos, the National Animal Supplement Council, NOW Foods, Promotion in Motion, Shaklee and Threshold.
SupplySide West podcast - Are you ready for an FSMA audit?
August 15, 2018 15:33 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBThe Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) which became law in 2011, and by September 2018 nearly all food, beverage and supplement makers will be required to follow the rules. FDA is actively enforcing rules and inspecting facilities based on varying implementation timelines. This means there’s no safe place to hide so suppliers and manufacturers need to have best practices in place to pass a FSMA audit.
SupplySide West Podcast: Quality Systems in a Contract Manufacturing Partnership
August 08, 2018 18:48 - 19 minutes - 18 MBIn this SupplySide West edition of the Healthy INSIDER Podcast, Rachel Adams, managing editor, and Tara Couch, senior director of dietary supplement and tobacco services at EAS Consulting Group, discuss essential quality systems for an own label distributor in a contract manufacturing partnership.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: IFT 2018 Food & Beverage Trends
July 24, 2018 16:43 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBAlternative sweeteners, clean label, plant-based protein, personalized nutrition, alternative dairy and better-for-you food and beverage ingredients. All these trends and more were on display at the 2018 IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Educating Those Interested in Food Technology
July 11, 2018 14:02 - 7 minutes - 7.23 MBGinger Schlueter, assistant editor, spoke with Offir Benjamin, Ph.D., researcher and lecturer at Tel-Hai College. Listeners will learn about alternative dairy trends, how to reduce food waste and how education plays a vital role in entering the food space.
Reporters Explore, Debate Impact of FDA Approval of CBD Medicine
June 29, 2018 14:13 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBIn this podcast, reporters Todd Runestad and Josh Long review last week’s landmark event—FDA approval of Epidiolex, a CBD medicine to treat rare and severe forms of epilepsy—and debate the potential impact on the natural products industry.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Celebrating a Year of the Supplement OWL
June 20, 2018 15:56 - 8 minutes - 7.44 MBAs consumers are seeking more transparency in the products they buy, and regulators aim to stretch tight budgets by focusing on the bad actors, self regulatory initiatives can take center stage. At SupplySide East in New Jersey in April, Heather Granato, vice president of content, spoke with Duffy MacKay, Ph.D., senior vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs, Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), about the importance of self regulation. In this podcast, MacKay discusses how the...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: InnovoPro’s Chickpea Offers Vegan Protein Choice
June 13, 2018 14:16 - 8 minutes - 7.75 MBGinger Schlueter, assistant editor, interviewed Taly Nechushtan, CEO and Nitzan N. Ben Chaim, CTO with InnovoPro Limited, makers of chickpea protein and starch. Learn why brands should consider chickpea protein and discover trends within the industry from Taly, while Nitzan concludes with the top four important characteristics of alternative proteins.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: 25 Years After DSHEA & NDI Process Is Broken
June 06, 2018 15:34 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBIn 1994, Congress passed a landmark law—the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act (DSHEA)—that included thoughts about how companies could bring new ingredients to market; in the 25 years since, the waters around new dietary ingredients (NDIs) have remained murky. At SupplySide East in New Jersey in April, Heather Granato, vice president of content, spoke with Marc Ullman, partner at Rivkin Radler, about the new dietary ingredient (NDI) process and what could or should happen with this pr...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Munbatim Gives Bread a Clean Label Makeover
May 30, 2018 14:52 - 7 minutes - 6.47 MBGinger Schlueter, assistant editor, met and spoke with Boaz Olivero, founder and CEO, of Munbatim, to learn more about why the company got started, challenges and how he overcame them, and trends in the functional foods niche.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Supporting Businesses That Are a Force for Good
May 23, 2018 14:00 - 10 minutes - 9.45 MBAcross the natural products industry, brands are taking steps to be more sustainable and support their communities. Retailers and consumers are taking steps to request more from their product suppliers, raising the bar for “doing good” with business. Heather Granato, vice president of content, stopped off in New York recently to speak with Pierce Sioussat, president and CEO of Bioforce USA, about the role that natural products retailers play in maintaining the industry’s core values, which re...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: The SARMs Conundrum
May 16, 2018 16:58 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBThe use of SARMs (selective androgen receptor modulators), synthetic compounds being investigated as new drugs, have triggered industry and regulator efforts to remove these compounds from dietary supplements. What the best approach to doing so is a matter of debate. Sports nutrition and bodybuilding industry attorney Rick Collins, a partner with Collins Gann McCloskey and Barry, sat down with INSIDER’s Steve Myers during the recent SupplySide East in Secaucus, New Jersey, to discuss the curr...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Supplements Market Drivers in China
May 09, 2018 14:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBIn this Healthy INSIDER Podcast, Rachel Adams, managing editor, and Jeff Crowther, executive director of the US-China Health Products Association, discuss key factors driving growth of the dietary supplements market in China, including a push from the Chinese government toward preventative health care and growing interest in sports and exercise among Chinese consumers.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Sustainable Packaging Advances
May 02, 2018 14:00 - 14 minutes - 20.9 MBGinger Schlueter, assistant editor, hosted Julia Schifter, VP business development, TIPA Corp, as she explained why and how the company got started, discussed environmental hazards of plastics and compared the concept of compostable flexible packaging to how an orange peel decomposes.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Impacts of Social Media, Technology on Chinese Commerce
April 25, 2018 18:45 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBIn this Healthy INSIDER Podcast, Rachel Adams, managing editor, and Jeff Crowther, executive director of the US-China Health Products Association, discuss the rapid adoption and evolution of social media and technology by Chinese consumers, and how these factors impact purchasing behaviors.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Cannabidiol (CBD) in Companion Animal Products
April 20, 2018 14:00 - 22 minutes - 31.7 MBCannabidiol (CBD) is a hot trend in natural products for humans—and their pets. Bill Bookout of the National Animal Supplement Council (NASC) shares an update on the regulatory status of using hemp and CBD for animals, touching on the roles of FDA-CVM, AAFCO, the Farm Bill, DSHEA, pharma and more.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Detecting Food Contaminants in the Field
April 18, 2018 14:00 - 7 minutes - 11.2 MBGinger Schlueter, assistant editor, and Yair Moneta, head of business development, Inspecto, discuss the development of their nanoscale, a portable device that detects food contaminants in the field. The conversation explores Inspecto’s successes and challenges in product development, offering advice to industry newcomers.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: SupplySide East 2018 Trends
April 13, 2018 16:37 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBPrebiotics for synergistic support of the microbiome, an emphasis on clinical research on ingredients, interest in beauty from within offerings and unique delivery forms. All of this and more were on display at SupplySide East 2018. SupplySide East 2018 returned to Secaucus, NJ, for the first time since 2011, delivering to the Northeast a solutions-focused event around ingredients and supply chain solutions. In this episode, Steve Myers, INSIDER managing editor, and Heather Granato, vice pres...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Hemp Industry Fights DEA Marijuana Extract Rule
April 02, 2018 23:17 - 5 minutes - 5.29 MBIn this podcast, Josh Long of Natural Products INSIDER explores a lawsuit challenging a marijuana extract rule adopted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Long interviews cannabis attorney Bob Hoban and takes listeners to a federal appeals court in San Francisco where a panel of judges in February questioned lawyers for DEA and the Hemp Industries Association on the marijuana extract rule. The fate of the lawsuit has potentially broad implications for the burgeoning CBD industry.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Innovation, Progress in Sustainable Packaging Solutions
March 28, 2018 18:38 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBRachel Adams, managing editor, and Lara Dickinson, executive director at OSC2, cofounder at Climate Collaborative and partner at Pluot Consulting, discuss the challenges related to development and adoption of sustainable, flexible packaging and the industry’s first compostable flexible packaging at Natural Products Expo West 2018 in Anaheim, California, March 7-11.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: How Investing in Startups Turns Ideas into Scalable Products
March 21, 2018 13:58 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBIngredion recently partnered with the non-profit food business incubator The Hatchery Chicago as part of the Ingredion for Emerging Business initiative to help new food and beverage companies turn innovative ideas into on-trend and scalable products. In this podcast Judie Bizzozero, editor of Food Insider Journal, Evan Hyman, director of Emerging Business at Ingredion, and Natalie Shmulik, CEO of The Hatchery Chicago, discuss the importance of investing in entrepreneurs, the challenges they ...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Expo West 2018 Trends
March 15, 2018 22:32 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBSupply chain traceability and mission-based business, plant-based protein and bone broth, and digestive health and CBD. All these trends and more were on display at the 38th annual Natural Products Expo West. In this episode, Heather Granato, vice president of content, Informa Exhibitions; Judie Bizzozero, editor, Food Insider Journal; and Rachel Adams, INSIDER managing editor; discuss the top trends they discovered at Expo West 2018.
Healthy Insider Podcast: U.S. Nutrition Industry Strengthening the Bridge to China
March 08, 2018 14:34 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBChina has always been important to the supply side of the U.S. health and nutrition industry, but smart businesses are tapping into the growing significance of the Chinese consumer base. Yet, accessing the market of 400 million people is not an easy task for U.S.-based brands who must navigate regulation and communication barriers. The U.S. trade organization the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) is working to strengthen the bridge to China by creating memorandum of understanding (MOU) ...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Research & Development: Finding a Common Language
March 05, 2018 15:29 - 20 minutes - 19 MBIn this edition of the Healthy INSIDER podcast, Judie Bizzozero, editor, Food Insider Journal, and Mary Christ-Erwin, partner at Porter Novelli and lead of the agency’s food and agriculture issues and policy group, discuss the importance of communication in the food and beverage industry--from research and development to marketing and branding. Christ-Erwin will be speaking on “Research & Development: Finding a Common Language” at the 6th Annual Supplier Night hosted by the Cactus Section of ...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Authentic, Regenerative Leadership
February 28, 2018 19:20 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBAuthentic leadership can be described as bringing oneself wholly into your team and business—“showing up” and being truly invested in revealing our true selves. This concept goes further in regenerative leadership, which takes the concepts of building a wholistic environment that yields dividends in long term health. In this Healthy INSIDER Podcast, Heather Granato, vice president of content, Informa, talks with Susan Skjei, Ph.D., director of Naropa University’s Authentic Leadership Center, ...
Healthy Insider Podcast: 2018 U.S. Politics with Loren Israelsen
February 26, 2018 18:34 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MB2018 is a big year for U.S. politics and regulations that affect the health and nutrition industry. This year will bring the full implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), a new Farm Bill, mid-term elections, and the retirement of unprecedented numbers of congressional members, including the supplement industry’s beloved Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). In this podcast Loren Israelsen, president, United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA), discusses what the industry can expect from...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Regenerative Agriculture and Biodynamic Farming
February 22, 2018 16:00 - 13 minutes - 12 MBRegenerative farming applies the principles of organic, while adding a focus on farms as closed systems—living organisms able to provide their own intrinsic solutions for healthy longevity. In this Healthy INSIDER Podcast, Heather Granato, vice president of content, Informa, talks with Elizabeth Candelario, president, Demeter, about the future of responsible agriculture. They discuss some of the misconceptions around regenerative agriculture and biodynamic farming, what a regenerative approac...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: The Current State of GMOs
February 21, 2018 16:35 - 19 minutes - 18 MBIn this edition of the Healthy INSIDER podcast, Judie Bizzozero, managing editor, and Megan Westgate, executive director of the Non-GMO Project, discuss the current state of GMOs in the food supply and upcoming regulations scheduled to take effect in the near future. Westgate will be speaking on the “GMO Labeling: Regulations & Market Opportunities” panel on Saturday, March 10 during the Natural Products Expo West show in Anaheim.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Going ‘Inside the Bottle’
February 16, 2018 17:49 - 9 minutes - 8.91 MBAcross the dietary supplements space, there’s a great interest in promoting quality, building trust and improving the transparency in the supply chain. At the same time, we’ve seen the rise of content marketing as a key platform for conveying information and bringing stakeholders together. The Inside the Bottle program, now in its third year, was developed by New Hope Natural Media—a partner to Natural Products INSIDER—to marry these concepts and help build community around these issues. In t...
SupplySide West Podcast: The Role of Transparency in Supplements Category
February 07, 2018 17:35 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBIn this SupplySide West edition of the Healthy INSIDER podcast, Rachel Adams, managing editor, and Scott Steinford, founder and CEO of Trust Transparency Consulting, discuss the role of transparency in establishing trust with supplements consumers.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Vitafoods Insights – Innovation in the Industry
February 01, 2018 15:16 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBThere seems to be no shortage of innovative solutions and inspired product development in the global health and nutrition industry and the innovation landscape continues to look promising. Alessio Dantino from Crowdfooding joins us to discuss all areas of innovation and what we can expect from future start-ups.
SupplySide West Podcast: Supplement Brands’ FSMA Requirements
January 31, 2018 21:29 - 7 minutes - 7.18 MBThe Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which became law in 2011, increased the regulatory requirements that food—and supplement—manufacturers must follow to ensure food safety. These risk-based preventative measures accompany the good manufacturing practices (GMPs) previously required by law. In this podcast, John Atwater, Ph.D., senior director of verification programs, USP (U.S. Pharmacopeia), discusses the new FSMA rules and how supplement brands can ensure their products meet all produ...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Vitafoods Insights – Macro Trends for Europe
January 30, 2018 16:28 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBNutrition Business Journal’s Global Supplement Business Report 2017 offers extensive insight to the European market ups and downs. Claire Morton, senior industry analyst at NBJ, joins us to discuss the ‘sleeping giant’ that is the European supplements market and offers her predictions for the industry in 2018.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Vitafoods Insights – Astaxanthin and Skin Health
January 25, 2018 13:44 - 35 minutes - 49.5 MBFor most people, skin is an integral part of healthy ageing, but it's usually skin appearance that gets the most attention. Topical products sales are booming, with more and more consumers concerned about wrinkles and thinning skin, but as Dr Mark Miller explains, there's more to skin health than wrinkle prevention. H e points out the importance of dietary supplement interventions and the link between oxidative stress and sunburn, wrinkles, ageing and even cancer. He details the major issues ...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Vitafoods Insights – Clean Label in Colours and Flavours
January 24, 2018 15:16 - 10 minutes - 9.56 MBConsumer demand for clean label means manufacturers need to consider the demand for naturalness stretching into colours and flavours. More than just a rejection of E numbers, this is part of the consumer shift to 'everything healthy' and colours and flavours are coming under scrutiny. Christiane Lippert, head of marketing, food at Lycored, discusses why clean label is so relevant to consumers and the innovation potential as manufacturers rise to the 'naturalness' challenge.
SupplySide West Podcast: Nutritional Protection for Modern Eyes
January 24, 2018 14:04 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBIf the eyes are the windows to the soul, the inner spirit may need some yellow shades. Potentially damaging blue light was once only a problem for eyes subject to sun overexposure, but modern eyes are bombarded by blue light from endless device screens at all hours of the day and night. The yellow pigmented macula in the back of the eye can protect against blue light, the effects from which accumulate throughout life, but the nutritional foundation for the macula in the modern diet—the carot...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Vitafoods Insights – Illness to Wellness Shift in Nutraceuticals
January 18, 2018 13:55 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBThe health care industry is undergoing functional and structural changes from a 'fee-for-service' to 'value-based' services at a national level in various countries. This movement is currently experiencing renewed impetus as several food components are being employed as medicines, such as polyphenols, fibres, and probiotics. As Dr Dilip Ghosh, director of Nutriconnect, explains, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between bioactive molecules termed 'drugs' and other substances classified...
SupplySide West Podcast: Capturing Millennials with the ‘Softer Side of Health’
January 17, 2018 19:45 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBMillennials view food and health differently than Boomers and Gen X’ers. Millennials want food from brands with values, missions and purposes that align with their own ideals of improving the world. For them, health is not a blood pressure level or a body mass index (BMI); health is experiencing happiness, energy and vibrancy. Food and supplement brands can tap into theses mindsets by offering natural, safe and efficacious products, and using the right communication to explain the brand story...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Vitafoods Insights – 2-aminoisoheptane and Supplement Adulteration
January 16, 2018 14:57 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBMany supplement manufacturers have been searching for new ingredients to replace ephedrine since it was banned by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2004, and subsequently prohibited in Europe. As a researcher following the supplement industry closely, John Travis, senior research scientist at NSF International, was watching bodybuilding and workout blogs when he learned a new ingredient, 2-aminoisoheptane, had arrived on the scene. Here, John explains how he identifies and examines the v...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Vitafoods Insights – Neuroscience and Brand Positioning
January 11, 2018 13:53 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBExperiences leave their mark on the brain… literally. Baroness Greenfield explains how brands and digital advertising can actually shape our brains and how food and drink businesses can influence their consumers. Conveying taste and smell to a 'screen generation' comes with obvious challenges, but companies can communicate their messages in various ways by 'synergising the senses.'
SupplySide West Podcast: Personal Care Market Drivers, Trends
January 10, 2018 14:08 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBIn this SupplySide West edition of the Healthy INSIDER podcast, Rachel Adams, managing editor, and Xuesong Li, director of the management consulting practice at Kline & Co., discuss factors impacting the growth and trends of the global personal care market.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Vitafoods Insights – Geopolitics and Food
January 09, 2018 14:53 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBWith Brexit and the US election sending ripples across the world, it's only logical to expect implications to food prices and supplies. Brexit sees the United Kingdom forced to consider agricultural policy, food safety standards and import tariffs following the departure from the European Union, and is now looking for new trade deals. The United States may seem the logical trading partner, but Donald Trump's 'America First' orientation is expected to see American standards and practices requi...
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Vitafoods Insights – Trends for 2018
January 05, 2018 13:49 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MB2018 is upon us and all thoughts are turning to the potential and opportunities a new year brings. We called Hamish Renton, managing director of HRA Food and Drink, to discuss his predictions for the food and beverage markets in 2018 and how these apply to the nutraceutical and functional food industry.
Healthy INSIDER Podcast: Supplement Opportunities with Integrative Physicians
January 03, 2018 19:38 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBMany integrative physicians—medical doctors and doctors of osteopathic medicine (DOs) who self-identify as using holistic practices—turn to supplements to help their patients’ wellness. Brands that communicate and connect with these practitioners can find great opportunity in the partnership. In this Healthy INSIDER podcast, Yadim Medore, founder and CEO, and Susan Haeger, executive strategic consultant at Pure Branding, discuss a new study they conducted on how integrative physicians use sup...
SupplySide West Podcast #82: Human Trends Continue in Animal Nutrition
December 27, 2017 15:05 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBAffirming that pet trends are influenced by what’s hot for humans, a probiotic food topper for dogs and cats earned a 2017 Editor’s Choice Award (ECA) for best new animal nutrition product. In this podcast, Mika Wheelwright, CEO of Fidobiotics and Meowbiotics, discusses the development of probiotic products for animal nutrition, including delivery format, palatability, formulation, ingredients and quality.