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Dietary supplement ingredients range from plant extracts, to amino acids and hormones. Depending on the country you live in you maybe have access to any and all of the following types of supplements:

Herbal Extracts

Animal extracts

Hormones and hormonal extracts

Amino acids

Synthetic derivatives of plant extracts

Synthetic derivatives of hormones

Supplement ingredients are a highly processed items that bear little or no resemblance to the original material that is used to synthesize them.

An ingredient in chosen for a product based on cost, dose, claims that can be made using it, popularity (think hoodia or acai), and potential risk (think ephedra).

The actual effect the ingredient has is only one of many factors that determine if an ingredient will be used in a new supplement product.

In this podcast we’ll discuss how supplement manufacturers put a product together and specifically how ingredients are chosen.

John

The packaging makes a big difference

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Dietary supplements are a big industry now and the packaging reflects it. It used to be that you could fill plain white bottles with your magic powder X and print up a basic white paper label and you were in business…not any more.

Supplement packaging has become big business with the regular use of mirror and rainbow holographic labelling, new and innovative bottle and box designs, special box formation and inserts and custom shapes and sizes.

Packaging is the most important point of contact before you make a purchase, so the package better be good.

In this podcast we’ll discuss some of the issues and main points a supplement company must consider when making the packaging for a product.

John