Growing consumer awareness of their own deficiencies, its health benefits, and the emergence of innovative forms are making magnesium the ‘the hottest ingredient in the mineral category’.
Sleep, mood and digestive health are the areas attracting most interest this year from manufacturers in the food and beverage industries, according to nutritional premix supplier Fortitech.
Fortitech is coordinating its efforts to provide nutritional premixes to malnourished populations, through targeted partnerships in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Nutrient premix supplier Fortitech will focus on the role of food in gut health, stress, anxiety and sleep in a webinar it is hosting at the end of this month.
The divestiture of a joint venture between BASF and Fortitech will have no impact on customers, said Fortitech, which confirmed that it will continue to make its nutrient premixes with the same ingredients.
31-Jul-2007 - By Clarisse Douaud at IFT in Chicago
The industry-wide need for implementation of the Standardized Information on Dietary Ingredients (SIDI) protocol was yesterday underscored by speakers at the IFT Expo.
New York State-based Fortitech announced its Asia Pacific operations have secured a manufacture and supply contract for iron premix with the Pakistan Ministry of Health's National Wheat Flour Fortification Program.
The West Coast's thirst for energy drinks has driven nutrient premix specialist Fortitech to open a new manufacturing facility in Califoria set to increase the company's production for the Western United States by 350 percent.
Fortitech Asia Pacific has been appointed to manufacture a vitamin and mineral premix containing Akzo Nobel's Ferrazone iron for Pakistan's National Wheat Fortification Program - a contract that underscores confidence in the science behind the ingredient.
New Zealand ingredients innovator Keratec says it has received approval for its entire Functional Keratin products derived from sheep's wool are suitable for use in products for the halal market.