What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Our weekly posts have been entertaining and thought provoking to write. We have covered a number of topics ranging from hopeful to insightful. Today’s post originated with a series of…
Flawed nutrition science reporting hurts the industry…what we can do about it
Practically every day there are headlines about a new nutrition study. Some are favorable toward the food item/nutrient/ingredient and some are negative. When the results are positive, we as an…
How Trust Transparency Sells Supplements
Trust transparency is at the top and bottom of every communication and blog our group posts, but we rarely talk about what the phrase really means to us in the…
Musings From FNCE 2019
For years, I’d heard about it – FNCE, the annual gathering of some 10,000 dietitians, where the sciences of dietetics and nutrition, the food pyramid and food policy and increasingly,…
The Amazon marketplace – September 2019 update
Trust Transparency Center has been following and reporting on the “Amazon Effect” on the dietary supplement industry since March 2017. In that time, the impacts have been numerous and far…
The dirty dozen – a look at twelve shady and nefarious industry practices to avoid
There’s a toast that I like to offer up at gatherings of friends and colleagues, and in many ways, it truly sums up how I feel about the industry in…
Consumer demand = more trust transparency in the supply chain
A recent Harvard Business Review article reported on a study by researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management that “found that consumers may be willing to pay 2% to 10%…
From fake to folly – dietary supplement gates are riddled with holes
If I’m a lay consumer, I remain absolutely confused and befuddled as dietary supplement brands continue to proliferate, in stores and online. A discerning label check can in some cases…
Amazon gumming up the supplement market and going to the dogs
It’s been just over 900 days since Amazon launched their first brand of supplements, Amazon Elements, with only four SKUs. Today, the brand carries 50. Amazon brands are continuing to…
Ingredients, Nutrition Science and Disease: A Messy Map
In some of our recent work in the curcumin/turmeric category and emerging prebiotic category we came up against that wall that often faces the dietary supplement industry: “Your scientific evidence…