Pharmacy

Sunkist Offers Lemons as a ‘S’alternative’ Flavoring
To show consumers that they can lower their sodium consumption while still adding flavor to foods and beverages, Sunkist has introduced “S’alternative,” a health initiative with the aim of publicizing the use of fresh lemons as a natural alternative to salt.
Whole Foods Expands Non-dairy Beverage Options
Whole Foods Market is expanding its all-organic and domestically sourced non-dairy beverage line as it launches the company’s first almond milk line – including the industry’s first-ever private label refrigerated organic almond milk – and light soymilk in Original and Vanilla varieties under its value-priced 365 Organic Everyday Value brand.

Food, Beverages Rival Vitamins, Supplements for Consumer Wellness Interest

Consumer interest in food and beverages that offer health benefits is greater than, or similar to, interest in vitamins and supplements that provide the same health-and-wellness benefits, according to a new global study conducted by New York-based Ipsos Marketing, Consumer Goods.
Super 1 Foods Uses NuVal Scores for Healthy School Lunches

Brookshire Grocery Co.-owned and Super 1 Foods & Discount Pharmacy stores is looking to make packing a healthy school lunch easy with its “Super Fun Lunch” box value meals that are prepared and sold in the deli and are based mainly on NuVal scores.
Aisle7 Wellness AppStream Gives Retailers Flexibility in Wellness Content Delivery

Aisle7, a provider of wellness-driven shopper marketing programs for food and drug retail, last week introduced its Aisle7 Wellness AppStream, a set of standards-based Web services enabling digital marketers to build custom applications that leverage proprietary and custom Aisle7 wellness content featuring science-based recommendations.
Turn on the Juice

With the weather fast heating up, Glendale, Calif.-based Nestle USA has introduced a more nutritious way than soda for children to quench their thirst: Juicy Juice Sparkling fruit juice beverage.
BGC Now Offering NuVal

Nuval’s Nutritional Scoring System today rolls out at Brookshire’s stores, owned by the Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC), which operates over 119 locations in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.
2009 Health-and-wellness Industry Sales Hit $125 Billion

Retail sales within the U.S. consumer packaged goods health-and-wellness industry reached almost $125 billion in 2009, representing an overall growth of 5 percent over the previous year, according to the Natural Marketing Institute.
Web Changing How Women Shop Offline: Research

Recent research on digital shopper marketing from iVillage and SheSpeaks has found that 77 percent of women are more likely to look for a product in a store after reading a review about it on a community forum or message board.
Smoothies on Demand

For those who want to enjoy Jamba Juice smoothies anytime, Jamba Juice Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Emeryville, Calif.-based Jamba, Inc., has teamed up with Phoenix-based Inventure Foods, Inc. to create the home version.

Sunkist Offers Lemons as a ‘S’alternative’ Flavoring

Whole Foods Expands Non-dairy Beverage Options

Food, Beverages Rival Vitamins, Supplements for Consumer Wellness Interest

Super 1 Foods Uses NuVal Scores for Healthy School Lunches

Aisle7 Wellness AppStream Gives Retailers Flexibility in Wellness Content Delivery

Turn on the Juice

BGC Now Offering NuVal

2009 Health-and-wellness Industry Sales Hit $125 Billion

Web Changing How Women Shop Offline: Research

Smoothies on Demand