Article: Formulating a sporting effort. (includes related article) (Cover Story)

From nutritional supplements to isotonic beverages, products for the physically active possess formulation constraints and ingredient opportunities all their own.

As a longtime render of ingredient panels (due to professional curiosity), I can still remember my first encounters with foods and beverages formulated for athletes.

I felt I had entered a parallel universe where efforts to create "clean labels" ran second to efforts to formulate products for consumers with a different set of criteria of what constitutes a good-for-you food.

In this intriguing new universe, desirable products provided ingredients that were meant to enhance one's physical ...

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