Van Drunen Farms uses NatExpo West to highlight on-trend, better-for-you ingredients
March 6, 2023
Van Drunen Farms welcomes NatExpo West attendees to Booth 4082 to discover its latest on-trend fruit, vegetable, and grain ingredients. The company also will exhibit at Booth F79 in the Fresh Ideas Organic Marketplace.
Recent events have not only driven consumers to seek ways of staying healthy but pulled the mental health side of mind-body wellness to the forefront. The stress of having lives and routines (and incomes) disrupted, illnesses threatening or even invading the family, and social isolation has led to an unprecedented 40% of US adults reporting that they’re struggling with mental health problems.
New Superfruit Mix is made with real fruit, and names fruit as the first ingredient
July 19, 2018
Each pack contains an assortment, with superfruit flavor blends of Pomegranate-Passionfruit, Starfruit-Kiwi, Dragonfruit-Blackberry, Açai-Blueberry and Goji–Apricot. Superfruit Mix is also gluten-free, fat-free and contains no preservatives and no colors from artificial sources.
Research has shown that Concord grape juice delivers more healthy polyphenols per serving than most other popular superfruit juices. In one study[1], Concord grape juice was found to have a polyphenolic concentration of 2.6mg GAE/mL.
Mintel Global New Products Database (GNPD) reveals that between 2011 and 2015, there was a 202% increase globally in the number of new food and drink products launched containing the terms “superfood,” “superfruit” or “supergrain.”
July 13, 2016
Superfoods are frequently marketed as the answer to consumers’ health woes and now new research from Mintel highlights the popularity of these nutrient packed foods.
A formulator could almost bet on success of a product with any colorful and exotic fruit – especially the red, blue, and purple ones – that came loaded with powerful phytochemicals and nutrients like antioxidants, polyphenols, and anthocyanins.