Kerry Hughes, MS, principal for EthnoPharm, is an ethnobotanist, herbalist, and author with a 20-year record of success in natural product development. EthnoPharm specializes in global natural product development and education, innovative product formulation, and nexus-of-market opportunity identification. Hughes is driven by a "tenacious fascination with the potential health-enhancing role plants can play." With a focus on ethnobotanical discovery and strategic innovation, Hughes and EthnoPharm continue to expand the boundaries of new natural product development, catalyze applied phyto-product breakthroughs, and bring to market new, efficacious, and profitable products that not only heal people but help protect the threatened global biodiversity.
A
new report entitled “Ingredients Affecting Health and Wellness: Innovations and
Trends to Watch in 2007” from Packaged Facts confirms, “The buzz is on as
omega-3 fatty acids, exotic pseudograins, antioxidants and other high-profile
wellness ingredients continue to flood grocery shelves.
Imagine
your child standing in line for his/her school lunch. Today your child decides
to make a healthy choice—pizza! Functional foods are appearing in all avenues
of convenient eating, and a school lunch pizza fortified with whey protein is
just one example.
Imagine sitting down to eat Cocoa Puffs to improve your heart health, manage your blood sugar and lose weight! Cocoa is again gaining attention, but this time its healthy soluble
According to Beverage Marketing Corp., the size of the U.S. energy drink market is over $650 million. Although Red Bull’s market share has begun to slip, it is estimated there
The demand for high- protein bars and beverages will continue to increase over the next few years, despite a recent downward trend,” reports David Browne, director of content development at SPINS (San Francisco) a natural products reporting agency.