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NaturPro Scientific We ask the hard questions about natural products, helping clients navigate science, quality and regulatory reality.

We’re building Fearless Naturals USA, a trust-first, highly curated, direct-sourced ingredient marketplace

Does your ingredient intel know how your ingredients are made?Because a lot of platforms can tell you what’s available a...
04/22/2026

Does your ingredient intel know how your ingredients are made?

Because a lot of platforms can tell you what’s available and trending. They can give you a possible match, what the studies say and what competitors are doing.

But we’re still left hanging with the biggest question:

Do you know enough about the ingredient, the supplier, and the documentation to trust what you’re buying?

That’s where Fearless Naturals USA is different.

We’re building the first controlled-access environment for serious buyers and trusted suppliers.

Not every supplier gets in, and not every buyer gets full visibility on day one.

That’s not a weakness — that’s the intended model.

Because premium ingredient sourcing doesn’t work like a flea market.

The best suppliers aren’t throwing their name into an open directory.

And discerning buyers don’t want to waste more of their time.

So Fearless isn’t the biggest list of whoever wants to register.

(And AI ain’t picking our ingredients, ever.)

We’re a place where serious buyers can evaluate serious suppliers with better evidence, better gating, and better judgment.

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The ingredient world doesn’t suffer from a lack of mediocre information.

We suffer from a lack of trust on ingredient quality and integrity.

We’re not here to show everyone everything that a computer can generate. Quite the opposite.

We’re here to show the right people — the Fearless Power Buyers — the best ingredients from the best suppliers.

That makes Fearless Naturals USA the first real trust marketplace for natural ingredients.

Grape Hyacinth, Muscari spp. The Grape Hyacinth, very much cultivated in England as a garden plant and occasionally met ...
04/22/2026

Grape Hyacinth, Muscari spp.

The Grape Hyacinth, very much cultivated in England as a garden plant and occasionally met with in sandy soils in the eastern and southern counties, has, like the Wild Hyacinth, a poisonous bulb. The leaves are narrow and rather thick, 6 inches to a foot long, the flower-stem usually shorter, with a close, terminal raceme, or head of small, dark blue flowers, looking almost like little berries and having a sweet scent.

As the flowers of the various species of Muscari secrete much nectar, they are among the useful bee plants of spring.

The Grape Hyacinth has sometimes been called Starch Hyacinth, as the flowers have been supposed to smell of wet starch.

The name of the genus, Muscari, comes from the Greek word for musk, a smell yielded by some species.

The American species Muscari comosum (Mill.) (Feather Hyacinth), or Purse Tassel, has been used, as well as other species of Muscari, for its diuretic and stimulant properties. Comisic acid has been extracted from the bulb, and apparently acts like Saponin.

The innumerable varieties of Garden Hyacinth are derived from an Eastern plant, Hyacinthus orientalis.

Source: botanical.com

Asarum canadense, wild ginger, is found throughout the eastern half of the United States. It grows in rich mesic soils i...
04/20/2026

Asarum canadense, wild ginger, is found throughout the eastern half of the United States. It grows in rich mesic soils in shady deciduous forests. Many a hiker has walked past the large colonies of this early spring wildflower not realizing that it has an interesting and peculiar flower underneath the canopy of its heart-shaped leaves.

The color and the location of the flower have an unusual and interesting story. The flower evolved to attract small pollinating flies that emerge from the ground early in the spring looking for a thawing carcass of an animal that did not survive the winter. By lying next to the ground flower is readily found by the emerging flies. The color of the flower is similar to that of decomposing flesh.

Wild ginger has some interesting ethnobotanical uses as well. Native Americans and early Euro-American settlers have used wild ginger as a spice. The root is harvested dried and then ground into a powder. Early settlers also cooked pieces of the root in sugar water for several days to obtain a ginger-flavored, candied root. The left over liquid was then boiled down to syrup that was used on pancakes and other food items. However, you should be aware that scientists have determined that the plants may contain poisonous compounds and consumption of the plant is highly discouraged.

—U.S. National Forest Service

Wasp and housefly tag-teaming to pollinate a pawpaw flower
04/20/2026

Wasp and housefly tag-teaming to pollinate a pawpaw flower

04/18/2026

Shakespeare on Spring…

Once upon a time, I was fresh. Today, I wish I had SupplySide Fresh — an industry onboarding program for new hires and n...
04/12/2026

Once upon a time, I was fresh. Today, I wish I had SupplySide Fresh — an industry onboarding program for new hires and newcomers to the health and nutrition industry. Learn from me and other experts, build valuable connections and accelerate growth in this dynamic field.

They’re popping in Indiana 🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄
04/11/2026

They’re popping in Indiana 🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄

Succulent blooms in the desert, Desert Botanical Garden
04/09/2026

Succulent blooms in the desert, Desert Botanical Garden

Spring bloom in the desert 🌵🌼🌺
04/05/2026

Spring bloom in the desert 🌵🌼🌺

03/09/2026

(filmed in January) In this episode of Food Planet Web, we unpack a surprising reality: the food industry didn’t just benefit from convenience culture—our h...

All the talk about “shills” and false science due to conflicts of interest is, well, bull-shillt. When people don’t like...
01/13/2026

All the talk about “shills” and false science due to conflicts of interest is, well, bull-shillt.

When people don’t like scientific results, the most convenient (read: lazy) thing to claim is pollution by industry money.

And they remain in their La-Z-Boy for the next claim — that if industry stepped away, we’d get “purer” science.

I’m sorry to report that this couch-potato way of thinking about COI collapses under examination.

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Today, industry funds roughly two-thirds of U.S. health R&D, representing around $250 billion.

Industry pays for early ideas, late-stage clinical trials, product development, regulatory science, manufacturing scale-up, quality assurance, and safety monitoring.

But let’s imagine industry funding somehow disappeared. And the government magically budgeted to replace all of it.

Taxpayer funding wouldn’t “clean things up”. Unless that means slower timelines, more failures, and even more politicized, bureaucratic decision-making.

We’d inherit $1,600 per average taxpayer in new debt — not couch-cushion change.

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Industry funding is essential to putting government-funded science into practice. Which brings us to the second armchair complaint:

“Academics shouldn’t take industry money — it’s a conflict of interest.”

Most of the time, the money we’re talking about are relatively small payments to cover travel expenses, translate and present findings, and answer technical questions.

Few people in academia are paid for more than a reasonable amount for their time and expense to then explain what it means, and what’s next.

Someone has to do it - and neither universities nor government pay for that part.

Expecting academics to be the bridge between science and industry for free is both impractical and unethical.

For anyone wondering how the new Dietary Guidelines compare to the old, here’s a chart from Marion Nestle at FoodPolitic...
01/10/2026

For anyone wondering how the new Dietary Guidelines compare to the old, here’s a chart from Marion Nestle at FoodPolitics.com.

A cogent thing I missed in my earlier brief review - the new guidelines are a lot less quantitative than before.

Cups of fruits and vegetables turned to servings — yet fruits and vegetables don’t come labeled with serving sizes.

Is a serving 100 grams or a handful? It all depends, and no one really knows.

No limits on fat intake - which at 9 calories per gram can add up to, well, unwanted fat.

Had there been a Registered Dietitian on the expert panel, perhaps these oversights wouldn’t have been made.

(Shout out to all the RD’s who have to now parse through this, and then educate your patients with another change to the guidelines!)

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Article “The MAHA 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines have arrived: Cheerful, Muddled, Contradictory, Ideological, Retro”.

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About NaturPro:

NaturPro Scientific, LLC, is a boutique natural products scientific consulting firm offering more than 30 years of experience and solutions supporting the development of innovative and functional products and ingredients that promote human health. NaturPro provides essential seed-to-shelf guidance covering innovation, research, production, supplier verification, quality assurance and regulatory compliance. NaturPro supports a range of startups, midsize and Fortune-50 corporations in the dietary supplement, food and beverage, and other regulated industries.

We Are Active Members of: --American Botanical Council --American Herbal Products Association (Standards, Raw Materials, Laboratory and Cannabis Committees) --AOAC International (Ethanol in Kombucha Expert Panel) --ASTM International (D.037 Cannabis Committee) --International Society of Sports Nutrition --U.S. H**p Roundtable (Technical Committee)

Recent Publications:


  • Determination of Ethanol Content in Kombucha Products by Gas Chromatography with Flame Ionization Detection: A Multilaboratory Study. Liu Y, Chan M, Ebersole B, Sy H, Brown PN. J AOAC Int. 2018 Sep 18. doi: 10.5740/jaoacint.18-0190.