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Vitamin Retailer’s 2025 Best New Products
For the 18th consecutive year, Vitamin Retailer, with the guidance of a retailer panel, assembled the year’s best new products. Eighteen years ago, Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine decided to honor the year’s top’s products by asking for opinions from independent natural products, vitamin and supplement retailers. The objective was for stores to offer feedback and ...
Are Superfoods Fueling the Future of Nutrition?
Innovations, trends and promoting superfoods in busy retail establishments. It’s a bird. . . it’s a plane. . . no, it’s superfoods! The term “superfoods” is familiar now, but it wasn’t always part of the nutrition vocabulary. And the phrase, surprisingly, doesn’t have its origin in the medical or natural health field. It was first ...
In Pursuit of a Better, Longer Life
The longevity supplements market is rapidly growing thanks to consumer demand for products that help them stay active and sharp in old age. The Fountain of Youth has long been featured in mythological stories from around the world, dating back to Herodotus in the 5th century B.C. Modern-day supplement consumers are looking for products that ...
Savvy Fatty Acids
Essential fatty acid products are undergoing innovations. Essential fatty acid products are the hottest ingredients in town, with EFA products like omega-3 supplements and marine oils dominating the nutraceutical market. Future Market Insights predicts that the fatty acid supplements market will grow at a compound annual rate of 8.7 percent through to 2035, reaching a ...
Taking Charge of Metabolic Health
Blood sugar concerns and metabolic health have moved beyond diabetic patients. Type 2 diabetes—the usual focus when talking about adult diabetes—used to be extremely rare until the modern diet and lifestyle were introduced. It is estimated about one-third of Americans have diabetes or prediabetes. According to Jacob Teitelbaum, a medical doctor and author (From Fatigued ...
Shields Up!
Here are some of the latest innovations in immune support supplements. The immune health supplements market is on a tear, with an increasing consumer demand for preventative care supplements driving significant growth. This sector is expected to grow at 10.5 percent CAGR through to 2035, eventually reaching a value of $84 billion, according to Future ...
The Sleep, Stress & Mood Triangle
What’s new in the market addresses a variety of needs. While the pandemic is in the world’s rearview mirror now, a new one seems to be taking over: the perfect stormy triangle of high stress, poor mood and a lack of good sleep. This appears to be one of those “What came first, the chicken ...
Preventative Health for Children
Parents are now more aware of how nutrition affects their children’s health. Parents are growing more health conscious especially when it comes to their children. According to data from Custom Market Insights (CMI), the pediatric supplement market was valued at $524.7 million in 2023 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate ...
2025 Retailer of the Year: Sunrise Health Foods
For more than 60 years, this family-owned Midwest retailer has been providing high-quality supplements and food to its communities. Lill Chapman was sick and tired most of the time, experiencing severe anxiety and depression. Doctors couldn’t tell her the reason for her sickness and didn’t offer any solutions. In the late 1950s, a dentist suggested ...
Herbs & Botanicals: The State of the Market in 2025
The panel: Alina Hornfeldt, Co-owner, Mastel’s, St. Paul, MN, www.mastels.com Holly Prugar, Supplement Manager, The Mustard Seed Natural Market, Watertown, NY, www.themustardseedonline.com Nichole Petersen, Marketing Director, RidgeCrest Herbals, Salt Lake City, UT, www.rcherbals.com Ramona Billingslea, Marketing & Education Manager, Betsy’s Health Foods, Spring, TX, https://betsyhealth.com Rob Brewster, President, Ingredients by Nature (IBN), Montclair, CA, https://ingredientsbynature.com ...
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