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Teton Waters Ranch, a grass-fed beef product company, offers consumers Certified Humane® raised and handled burgers, sausages, hot dogs and meatballs while ensuring ranching practices are regenerative. The brand’s new product—Teton Waters Ranch Burger Blends, a mixture grass-fed beef and mushrooms to provide increased nutritional benefits while reducing the overall calorie and fat content of an all-beef burger—won the Best New Frozen Product NEXTY Award at Natural Product Expo West in March 2019. In this podcast, Nadine Rich, director of marketing, Teton Waters Ranch, discusses the brand, formulation and accessibility with Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, INSIDER.

Rachel Adams, managing editor, and Michelle Perkins, founder of Counter Culture, discuss the process of innovation that led to Counter Culture’s all-purpose probiotic household cleaner.

Food giant Mars Inc. recently launched its Seeds of Change Accelerator program, which offers funding and mentorship for purpose-driven businesses. Informa’s Heather Granato spoke with Mars’ Gary Arora, head of accelerator and global lead, launchpad, about the company’s mission and values, and why now is the right time to support next-gen businesses.

In 2016, FDA announced its Final Rule requiring both the Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts boxes on product labels get updated to reflect new scientific information and to help consumers make more informed choices. Most brands have until 2020 until they need to update their labels, but some have already implanted the changes. This has caused confusion among consumers who question why products have different labels. While FDA has a campaign to help educate consumers on the changes to the Nutrition Facts Panel, it doesn’t have a similar program for the Supplement Facts Panel. In this podcast, Brian Wommack, senior vice president, communications, Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), discusses the update to the Supplement Facts Panel and how brands can help consumers navigate the change.

Rachel Adams, managing editor, and Sara Newmark, vice president of social impact at MegaFood, talk about the benefits and challenges of incorporating climate action into a company’s business model.

Recovering from exercise goes beyond the short window following that last sprint, bench press or mile, advised Susan Hewlings, Ph.D., R.D., vice president of scientific affairs for Nutrasource, in this podcast preview to her talk at SupplySide East 2019.

Adaptogenic herbs might be as close to the silver bullet as it gets—lowers stress, increases energy sans jittery caffeine, improves mental clarity. While ginseng has been around longer, ashwagandha has been leading the adaptogenic charge for the past three to five years. Its rise is so pronounced it has hopped out of the supplements bottle and is now the front-of-pack leader in functional beverages. Listen to Todd Runestad, senior editor, Natural Products INSIDER, talk with Mark Blumenthal, founder/executive director of the American Botanical Council, Scott Larkin, president of Connect Nutrition, and Carl Germano, author of Road to Ananda, published in 2019 and all about the endocannabinoid system and CBD. They’ll talk about: • What it means for consumer acceptance once ashwagandha gets lampooned on SNL. • The top 10 adaptogenic herbs on the market today. • Why hemp-derived CBD may be the new king of the adaptogenic set.

It was not enough for Annabella Buffalo Creamery to offer dairy products that contains higher levels of protein, fat, calcium and phosphorous compared to cow’s milk (Functional Foods in Health and Disease 2012, 2(4):86-106). Nor was it enough that Annabella’s milk products—sourced from water buffalos—had fewer allergy and intolerance concerns than cow’s milk (Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2009 Apr; 102(4): 349. DOI: 10.1016/S1081-1206(10)60342-0). Annabella went a step further to ensure the water buffalos that provide milk for its organic cheeses and yogurts are grass-fed, never confined and never fed grain and year-round in Colombia. This, along with great taste, was why Annabella was honored with a NEXTY award for “Best New Meat, Dairy or Animal-Based Product” for its low-moisture mozzarella at Natural Products Expo West 2019. In this podcast, Andres Salazar, managing director, Annabella Buffalo Creamery, discusses his business and product with Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, INSIDER.

Jeff Hilton, chief marketing officer at Brand Hive, talks with INSIDER editor Todd Runestad about the brave new world of omnichannel marketing. What is this omnichannel, you ask? Not your father’s TV, that’s for sure. Hilton talks about • Directing marketing activity at consumers who frequent different channels and influence points. • The blurred lines between channels. • The overlapping channels between ingredient suppliers and manufacturers. • The key ingredient in that relationship that will make downstream consumers customers for life.

Understanding evolving consumer needs has been critical to exploding the plant-based foods category. Listen to Sara Young, vice president and general manager of Morningstar Farms & Plant Based Proteins, and Judie Bizzozero, senior editor, Natural Products INSIDER, discuss the brands’ commitment to go 100 percent vegan by 2021.

Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, Connor Lovejoy, assistant editor, and Alex Smolokoff, editorial coordinator, discuss what goes on behind the scenes with the Expo West standards team and discuss the trends that stood out.

Supplements take many forms, and senior editor Todd Runestad takes many supplements. In this podcast, he and Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, explore Expo West 2019 trends such as CBD/hemp, the microbiome, functional ingredients and wellness shots.

Among the food, beverage and supplement launches at Expo West 2019, Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, and Karen Butler, senior editor, discuss trends such as mushrooms, mentorship and plant-based.

Sandy Almendarez and Josh Long of Natural Products INSIDER discuss the basics of DSHEA as part of a series of podcasts examining the 25th anniversary of the dietary supplement law.

Keto, oat milk and microbiome support trending at Expo West 2019 – podcast Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, and Rachel Adams, managing editor, review trends seen at Expo West including keto-inspired products, an insurgence of oat milk and widening solutions to support the microbiome.

In this podcast, INSIDER’s Sandy Almendarez and Josh Long reflect on quality and legal issues around CBD highlighted March 5 during an all-day summit at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California.

Natural product experts Heather Granato and Sandy Almendarez discuss the trends they saw during 2019’s Natural Products Expo West tradeshow in Anaheim, California. Natural Products Expo West, with its 88,000 attendees in 2019, is the place to find trending and notable finished products in the U.S. health and nutrition marketplace. In this podcast, Heather Granato, vice president of content, Informa Exhibitions, and Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, Natural Products INSIDER, cover the top trends they saw on the expo hall show floor, in education sessions and during networking events. They cover: • Plant-based protein is still hot, but smart brands are using ethically produced animal-based products to reclaim some of the protein space. • Digestive health products that feature prebiotics, synbiotics, probiotics and postbiotics. • Coconut used for its flavor, fat and recovery properties, as well as the growth of MCT oil. • Mission-based companies using their products and Expo West to promote causes they care abo

The initiative from OmniActive Health Technologies aims to fostering positive change for the communities, customers and consumers impacted by the company’s products and practices. To foster positive change for the communities that help build dietary ingredient supplier OmniActive Health Technologies, its Improving Lives Foundation works to improves the lives of the rural famers that supply its ingredients. The corporate social responsibility (CSR)initiative includes gender equality, nutrition and sanitation components. In this podcast Brian Appell, marketing manager, OmniActive Health Technologies, and Rushva Parihar, corporate social responsibility consultant, OmniActive Improving Lives Foundation, discussion the Foundation with Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, INSIDER.

We are at a clear inflection point in terms of creating the next generation of food and agriculture. Listen to Walter Robb, former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market and now principal at Stonewall Robb Advisors, and Judie Bizzozero, senior editor, Natural Products INSIDER, discuss meaningful change and disruption in the organic & natural sector.

In this podcast, a naturopathic doctor, Colorado lobbyist and VP of a wholesale ingredient manufacturer discuss the hottest ingredient in the natural products industry—CBD.