Bulletproof Coffee is expanding its RTD line with more flavors infused with collagen protein. The brand looks to attract the mainstream health and wellness market with its pioneering use of collagen and Brain Octane oil in coffee.
Coffee giant Nescafé will launch two new RTD coffee drinks next year: eyeing up a new world of texture and functionality for coffee lovers with its Cold Whipped Lattes and Coffee Protein Smoothies.
Protein beverage newcomer Foundation Fitness is making its debut at a major convenience store trade show next week, signaling the channel’s increasing role as a point of sale for sports and performance-positioned products.
Coca-Cola Amatil and The Coca-Cola Company have announced a joint acquisition of a 45% minority interest in Australia’s Made Group, which is behind beverage and dairy brands such as Cocobella, Rokeby Farms, Impressed and NutrientWater.
New product development for functional drinks, coupled with innovations at the economy end of the market, could help Indonesia's soft drinks market bounce back from a recent slump in growth.
Downing maize starch as a solution to stay hydrated in hot summer months seems counter-intuitive at first, but researchers in Australia found that supplementing with a resistant starch may improve hydration.
Irish brand VitHit expects its upcoming APAC debut to open doors for further expansion within the region for its sole product: a range of six functional bottled beverages developed as a healthy alternative to sugar-sweetened drinks.
When buying a bottle of ready-to-drink coffee, it's not just about caffeine — many US consumers gravitate to options that provide antioxidants, probiotics, and brain health benefits.
Popular meal replacement drink Soylent launches in the UK this week, hoping to capitalize on its US success with its first global expansion. With research showing that skipping meals is becoming more commonplace in the UK, Soylent believes it can fill...
Cannabis-infused food and drinks are hitting the niche market for medical and recreational consumers. Vertical and Form Factory have partnered up to drive a series of brand launches in California over the coming months - with plans to expand further over...
The organic and vegan UK startup is primed to launch a line of energy gels and pre-mix hydration drinks and has opened a seed funding round to raise capital to expand.
Liquid I.V., a development stage company that has found success with clever marketing of its hydration beverage, has secured $5 million in a star-studded private funding round.
Start-up firm Sated has revealed its new range of Omega oil-infused, ketogenic replacement shakes have set a new one-day funding record on Kickstarter in the first 24 hours, doubling the prior one-day record.
With retail sales of protein expected to reach $21.5 billion globally by 2025, manufacturers are incorporating the ingredient in everything from the standard shakes, bars and smoothies to the unexpected, such as, pancakes, chips and now with the launch...
Chicago-based Napa Hills turned wine into water last year when it launched two flavors of antioxidant-enriched functional water. It’s now expanding outside of Illinois and considering more flavors for 2019.
Japanese firm Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co.’s Oronamin C beverage has entered the South East Asian market for the first time, with its recent launch in Indonesia seeking to capitalise on the country’s rising demand for nutritional products.
Protein water brand Protein2o is on an “amazing growth trajectory,” said its president Andy Horrow. It’s poised for more growth after securing a distribution deal in 900 Publix stores.
Growing popularity in exotic tea types like matcha and sencha will help drive the US tea market to a $10bn valuation by 2022, says market research firm Packaged Facts.
A nutrient-rich, non-alcoholic beer can address the nutrients lost and changes to taste that patients face when undergoing therapy or treatments for cancer, its makers say.
Stillwater Ingredients launched a non-psychoactive CBD in three formats at the IFT expo this month: a liquid concentrate, a powder and a spray adhesion.
With up to 13 times more antioxidants than blueberries, haskap berries - also known as honeyberries - offer manufacturers a new ingredient with superfood credentials for relishes, jams or juices, says supplier Soloberry.
UK-based Rejuvenation is developing carbonated canned variants of its amino acid water to target the alcohol alternatives and mixer segment and stretch out even further as a functional beverage, its founder says.
Entrepreneur Jen Du’s line of ‘hangover cure’ liquid supplements were designed with tweaks she learned from her first, soon-to-be-discontinued product.
Gatorade Zero – PepsiCo’s sugar free version of Gatorade – is 'off to a great start', according to PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi; highlighting trademark Gatorade as a stronghold in PepsiCo’s North American Beverages Unit.
Putting new energy into what was once a struggling brand has yielded an energy product that an executive believes could be a game changer in the space.
Regional fruits like pineapple can provide important fiber and antioxidants that can be harnessed by beverage manufacturers to develop functional products, say researchers.
While consumers are starting to recognise the importance of a stable blood glucose level the benefits are still often underestimated, according to energy drink brand State. So it is using its elite athlete ambassadors (tennis star Caroline Wozniacki,...
Nutritional and fitness product retailer, Racing Greens have fallen foul of the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over claims its blended drink provided “6 of your 5 a day”.
A new beverage line with a unique beauty-from-within and vision support positioning has launched based on a little-employed superfruit: The Gac fruit from southeast Asia.
UK tea sales out-of-home are projected to increase by 10.3% in 2018, although innovation in the category is lagging behind that of coffee, according to a new report from the Allegra World Coffee Portal.
General Mills has led a funding round that poured $12 million into Boulder,CO-based functional food firm NextFoods and its GoodBelly brand via its venture investing arm 301 Inc.
FORTO Coffee Shots, a two-ounce, single-serve coffee drink brand, is migrating from check-out counters populated by other energy shot brands and into the coffee aisles of 3,700 Walmart stores beginning this month.
US functional coffee and matcha tea firm NuZee has established a new, wholly-owned subsidiary and broken ground on a new manufacturing plant in Korea as it seeks to boost its trade in Asia.
Juice made from fruits of chayote is extremely high in vitamin C and antioxidants and can have an appealing taste profile if blended with stevia and pineapple juice, a study suggests.
Glanbia Nutritionals has been displaying its ‘Truly Grass Fed’ protein range: with products coming from cows that receive 95% of their nutritional feed from grass. And while consumers may not directly be on the look-out for ‘grass fed’ attributes, it...
Berlin-based startup NOURI wants to expand into the UK supplements market with its line of highly-concentrated stimulant shots that it says shake up a very 'dusty' herbal market.
Global tea consumption is predicted to keep rising over the next decade, thanks to ‘robust demand’ in China, India and other emerging economies, according to the FAO. And it says tea’s health halo will be a ‘key driver’ of future growth around the world.
Up Mountain Switchel, a six-year-old beverage company started in Vermont is continuing its path of reinvigorating a heritage recipe with its most recent product launch, Original Swizzle, a carbonated switchel drink that uses fresh ginger root, Vermont...
