Mark Your Calendar for The Future Nutra Innovation Summit in September! ✅ 🗓️ 💚 🤸♂️
🎉 Today we’re officially announcing the Future Nutra Innovation Summit (FNIS): the natural products industry’s conference built entirely around innovation. […]
Fighting Adulteration, One Herb at a Time with Stefan Gafner 🧪 🌿 📊
In this new Explorer’s Way episode, I sit down with Stefan Gafner, Chief Science Officer at the American Botanical Council
The Dark Arts of Adulteration 🪄 🕶️ 🌿
In this new Explorer’s Way Episode we dive into the dark arts of adulteration. Stefan Gafner walks us through some
Discovery Spotlight: New Zombie Fungus 🧟 🍄
In 2025, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew highlighted a remarkable new fungus from Brazil that parasitizes trapdoor spiders, earning it a
Rewild Your Tonic 💚 🌿 🥃
Tonic water has its roots in the tropics, where British colonials mixed bitter quinine from cinchona bark into water as
Zombification 101: The Moment Stefan Chose Natural Products Chemistry 🧟 🌿
Long before Stefan Gafner was leading the charge on adulteration, he was a pharmacy student sitting in a ski‑week lecture,
New to the Natural Products Industry? …Check out my Onboarding module!
There are so many topics and language that are completely novel to this industry, and that is where SupplySide Fresh
The Future Nutra Foundation Launches New Nonprofit Initiative to Elevate Supplement Quality, Releases First Electrolyte Product Test Results 🥛 🏃 🚀
Today we’re officially launching the Future Nutra Foundation, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit created to help raise the bar on quality
Nerding out with our friends 😄 🤓 💚 🌿 📖
Some of the best parts of this work aren’t the plants at all…they’re the people. In this teaser, Stefan Gafner
Tilo: From Calm Tea to Sacred Smoke 🌿 ☕ ☁️ ✨
Tilo (aka. Piri Piri; Justicia pectoralis) is a low, aromatic herb from tropical America in the Acanthaceae, with small leaves