Developed by a board-certified clinical neuroscientist, ON Beverages’ ON Powered Refreshment functional drinks feature a blend of ornithine, caffeine from tea leaf extract, and B vitamins for energy.

Sun-Rype Products Ltd., Kelowna, B.C., literally added a boost to its line of fruit-based juices and snacks

Amazing Grass, Newport Beach, Calif., used Natural Products Expo West to showcase eight new products—including powdered supplements and nutrition bars—in its Green SuperFood line.

In Part One of Prepared Foods’ overview of ingredients for eye health, PF looked at the vitamins, minerals and other nutraceuticals, such as omega-3s, known to help protect eyes and vision. In this second of the two-part feature, PF explores the carotenoid compounds—perhaps the most important class of eye health ingredients known to science.

Copper Moon Coffee, Lafayette, Ind., may be the first coffee company to use probiotics in K-Cup® technology. The company’s new French Vanilla Cappuccino Insta-Kups feature Ganeden Biotech’s probiotic ingredient GanedenBC30 (Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086).

Market researchers project rapid growth for foods and beverages formulated for children

Italy’s PhenoFarm has developed several new ingredients based on olives, a major component of Mediterranean diet.

More than three decades of research into the benefits of omega 3 fatty acids have gone a long way to establish the myriad benefits of this lipid group

A Global Industry Analysts report estimates the value of the world’s functional foods and beverages market will reach $130 billion by 2015.

KonaRed Corporation, Kalaheo, Hawaii, introduced a new 10.5oz bottle for its line of KonaRed Original and Green Tea wellness drinks made with Hawaiian coffee fruit extract (billed on packaging as “Hawaiian Superfruit”).