What if Solving Adulteration Can Lead to Innovation? 🤔 💡 🌿 📈
We often focus on the extraction step as the “technology,” but for yannick piriou and his team, the real breakthrough […]
Mark Your Calendar for The Future Nutra Innovation Summit in September! ✅ 🗓️ 💚 🤸♂️
➡️ From the 9th to 11th of September, 2026 at Margaritaville Lake Conroe (near Houston), we’re bringing together brands, ingredient
Wild Yams, Wild Hormones: Dioscorea nipponica, a Backbone of Modern Steroid Drugs 🌿 💊
Fan-Leaf Mountain Yam (Dioscorea nipponica) is an East-Asian perennial twining wild yam that can reach about 5 m. Its horizontal,
Clean Label Processes can Reimagine Traditional Ingredients- 💚 🌲 💡 🌊
Most people judge herbal products by what is on the label, but almost nobody asks how those ingredients were actually
Discovery Spotlight: A Plant That Lives by Fungi Alone
Among recent plant discoveries was a newly recognized plant lineage that lacks photosynthesis and depends entirely on fungi for nutrition.
New Explorer’s Way Video Out- Yannick Piriou: Clean Label Processes & The French Maritime Pine Bark Example
When we say “clean label” in the herbal world, we often reduce it to what’s not in the formula: no
ICSB on Ashwagandha Safety: The Evidence in the Room ⁉️🌿✅
There are moments of profound convergence that remind you why gatherings like ICSB matter. This conference uniquely brings together researchers,
Arnica montana Common Adulterants-
This post series on botanical ingredient adulteration is inspired by the excellent work coming out of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention
Rising Up Together ✅💚🌿
Some striking statistics were shared by Mark Blumenthal of the American Botanical Council and Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program at this
Guess who I nerded around with this week?
This week I was lucky to have attended the ICSB conference surrounded by some of the brightest botanical brains: including