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Antioxidants: Science and Market Opportunities
Available: On Demand
Length: 60 minutes
Description:
SPINS’ Chris Chufo will review the channel dynamics and overall market trends behind the sales of antioxidants within the supplement department in food, drug, mass and natural supermarkets. The ingredients, brands and items guiding new product trends in the segment will also be discussed. Antioxidant formulas are a $51 million industry with newer antioxidant food supplements such as mangosteen, goji, and pomegranate experiencing triple digit growth.
Judi Quilici Timmcke will examine the most common antioxidants and how they are used, challenges in formulating with these, the antioxidants that have the most research plus new and exciting ingredients with new research. She will also touch upon the ORAC values.
Understand the market performance and science behind key ingredients, and gain insight into exciting growth opportunities!
Speakers:
Chris Chufo has been a senior analyst at SPINS for almost four years, focusing on the data analysis and business planning needs of supplement manufacturers and other vendors. Her background includes running four Whole Foods Market stores, as well as supplement buying for Whole Foods Market and Elephant Pharmacy. Chufo offers a deep understanding of key industry trends and insight into successful brand management in the natural segment.
Judi Quilici Timmcke, MS, of Q-Tech Services Inc., holds a master’s degree in dietetics and exercise physiology from the University of Northern Colorado and a bachelor's from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is working on her doctorate. For over 12 years she worked as a nutrition coach working with celebrities and pro-athletes. She also worked for the University of Colorado at Boulder’s human performance lab.
She presently works as a scientist/technical consultant and product formulator for companies in the dietary supplement industry and has developed a line of her own products she is beginning to market. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the American Association of Nutritional Consultants and was an appointed scientist for AMC Cancer Center in Denver, Colorado. She presently has a regular product development column that she writes for the INSIDER and teaches Webinars for Virgo Publishing. She also writes nutrition articles for magazines, completed the book, New Nutrients Against Cancer, and a second with Dr. Tom Slaga, called Calcium D-Glucarate. She has instructed Physician CME and credited chiropractor courses on dietary supplement research and has presented to the Jamaican Medical Association. She spoke in Europe and Japan on women’s health and nutrition and wrote the Tae Bo® instructor manual and instructed at their certification camps.
She has worked for Weider Nutrition International as vice president of research and product development for specialty markets and other companies such as Rexall Showcase International and Amrion. She presently formulates unique products for doctor, health food, mass, multi-level and direct mail markets and is considered an expert in her field. She has secured for companies exclusive and patented ingredients.
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