Five specialty categories open for entries in NutraIngredients-USA Awards

13-Mar-2024 - Last updated on 13-Mar-2024 at 11:22 GMT

The prestigious NutraIngredients-USA Awards are open for entries, with our five specialty categories recognizing the best and brightest in women’s health, nutrition research, start-ups and more.

The five specialty categories are Innovations in Women’s Health, Start-up, Nutrition Research Project, and two categories judged by the NutraIngredients-USA editorial team: Industry Initiative of the Year and NutraChampion.

Innovations in Women’s Health was added in 2022 and recognizes innovators with the best ingredients or products to promote women’s health, research projects specifically benefiting female health and wellness, and women-led start-ups.

Our Start-Up category recognizes those companies that are up-and-coming and are doing it the right way, building their businesses on strong science, robust partnerships and collaborations, and exemplary ethics. Previous winners include Radicle Science, Chinova Bioworks, Brightseed, Comet Bio, Plasma Nutrition and Prenexus Health.

The Nutrition Research Project category rewards the best game-changing nutrition research projects that push the boundaries of nutritional science. Previous winners include companies like TSI Group, NutriLeads, Verdure Sciences (three time winners) and the Seipel Group.

Editors’ Awards

Industry Initiative of the Year celebrates the best industry initiative and is open to any program, project or platform that is able to demonstrate deep and significant improvements for the industry. Previous winners include: Best Practices SOP for the Disposal / Destruction of Irreparably Defective Articles (IDAs) from the ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP), Vitamin D & Me! from the CRN Foundation, NOW publicizing quality concerns about supplements purchased on Amazon by NOW, Label Wise from The Council for Responsible Nutrition, the ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program and Sabinsa's Pterocarpus marsupium reforestation program

NutraChampion: How do we define such a person? The industry has a lot of giants, people who have built successful companies and organizations, and had a lasting impact on the health and wellness of Americans. Whether it is for driving new standards and policies, increasing public knowledge and interest in nutrition, or pushing for innovation and championing ingredients, our NutraChampion award will celebrate those who leave a lasting impact on nutrition and the nutrition industry. Our NutraChampions to date include Judy Blatman, Paul Schulick, Elan Sudberg, Asma Ishaq, Suzanne Shelton, Loren Israelsen, Rick Kingston and Diana Morgan.

The closing date for entries is Friday, March 29, 2024. Finalists will be announced in May, and winners will be revealed at an event hosted in Chicago in July.