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Sweet Earth Natural Foods, Moss Landing, Calif., used Natural Products Expo West to debut a line of Functional Breakfast Burritos™ as well as a line of meatless Savory Grounds.™

There has been rising interest in energy and sports performance in recent years, as it has moved out of the more specialist domain of sportsmen, athletes and bodybuilders and into the mainstream for those with generally active lifestyles.

Global new product activity featuring a specific weight management positioning has been relatively static in recent years.

Despite increasing interest in cognitive health from an aging population, the majority (over two-thirds) of global launches marketed on a brain health platform are baby foods, particularly infant formulas and milks, where DHA is often used for its brain development properties.

Global launch activity with a specific diabetic positioning recorded by Innova Market Insights slightly declined in 2013.

FutureCeuticals announced the issuance of a patent in Japan covering the production of products from whole coffee fruit or portions thereof, including coffee fruit powders, extracts and concentrates.

BPI Sports, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., says its new Funnbar™ “combines delicious with healthy in a gluten-free protein candy chew.”

Prepared Foods and its NutraSolutions brand present this annual “Ingredients for Health” reference.

Draco Natural Products’ Shiitake Mushroom extract is a powerful immune and health tonic ingredient for food and beverages.

Digestive health has long been one of the major drivers of the functional foods market globally, although probiotic products, one of the key areas, have recently come under pressure from regulatory difficulties with regard to claims in some parts of the world, particularly the EU, where the word “probiotic” is no longer allowed.