Wellness Foods' 2005 Readers' Choice Awards

BASF’s recently launched LycoVit line includes LycoVit 10%, a lycopene formulation used as a cold water dispersible powder for beverage and food applications, and LycoVit 20% dispersion, an oily dispersion for food fortification and dietary supplements.

Category: Omega Oils
Winner: Omega Protein Corp., Houston (12%)
Second: Tie

• BASF Corp., Florham Park, N.J.;
• DSM Nutritional Products, Parsippany, N.J., and
• Martek Biosciences Corp., Columbia, Md.

There is certainly no underestimating the importance of omega fatty acids to human wellness. Cardiovascular health, infant neural development, depression, arthritis, memory…all may be positively affected by omega intake, according to decades of research.

Omega Protein’s OmegaPure line of fish oil and protein products are naturally derived from menhaden, a herring-like fish that is the only marine source of essential long-chain Omega-3 s directly affirmed by the FDA as a GRAS food ingredient for direct human consumption.

Photo courtesy of Archer Daniels Midland Co.

Category: Soy
Winner: Archer Daniels Midland Co., Decatur, Ill. (26%)
Second: Solae LLC, St. Louis (18%)
Third: Cargill Inc., Minneapolis (8%)

Soy is the archetype of functional foods. It is possibly the most studied food enjoying the longest historical association with good health. Soy is also one of the most versatile foods known.

For the second year in a row ADM, the giant of the soy protein industry, is the company a healthy percentage of our readers turn to for their soy protein product needs.

Category: Vitamins
Winner: DSM Nutritional Products, Parsippany, N.J. (28%)
Second: Tie

• Fortitech, Schenectady, N.Y. (12%)
• BASF Corp., Florham Park, N.J. (10%)*

DSM is the world's leading supplier of vitamins, carotenoids and other nutrition supplements to the food industries. With a long history as a pioneer in the discovery of new products and new formulations, the company also is a major innovator of new applications for nutritionals. DSM Nutritional Products also has a longstanding tradition and commitment to research activities investigating the benefit of nutritional products on human health, especially in identifying naturally occurring bioactive compounds which contribute to well being and reduced risk of chronic disease.

* Although separate companies, BASF and Fortitech are involved in a joint venture of nutritional supplement products.

Category: Whey Protein
Winner: Tie

• Davisco Foods International Inc., Eden Prairie, Minn. (8%)
• Land O’ Lakes Inc., St. Paul (8%)

Second: Tie

• Clofine Corp., Linwood, N.J. (5%)
• Main Street Ingredients Corp., La Crosse, Wis. (5%)

Dairy proteins carry a high nutritional value as rich sources of essential amino acids. Research also indicates whey proteins have biologic functions that may promote health, including immune support, bone health and general wellness. Davisco’s ultra-purified BioPURE group of whey proteins is isolated from fresh, sweet dairy whey. The resulting products are homogeneous, free-flowing, semi-hygroscopic light cream-colored undenatured powders that are fully soluble across wide pH ranges.

Land O’ Lakes has been a leading provider of dairy and dairy-derived ingredients for more than 80 years. It has a full line of whey protein isolate, whey protein concentrate, whey powders and milk powders.