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Prepared Foods September 1, 2006 Marcia A. Wade |
A Defense of Functional Foods Defining functional foods... Functional ingredients to fight antioxidants... Lack of consumer awareness or scientific validation are biggest challenges in product development... Anti-oxidant tag teams... The right recipe for health and taste... etc. |
AskMen.com Dustin Driver |
Antioxidants Here's the lowdown on antioxidants, where to find them and what they can do for you and your health. |
Nutra Solutions March 5, 2005 Claudia O'Donnell |
New Products Tackle Diseases Researchers are striving to identify individual healthful compounds that can be added to diets, while companies work to identify compounds backed by sound science that will attract customers. Here's a review of what their efforts are delivering. |
Nutra Solutions January 1, 2005 Kerry Hughes |
Ingredients to Reduce Cancer Risks Approximately 35% of cancer deaths in the U.S. can be prevented by dietary means. Scientific evidence shows that properly balancing fruits, vegetables, dietary fiber, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and certain dietary supplements protects our health. |
Nutra Solutions June 2, 2006 Kerry Hughes |
A Cornucopia of Anti-Aging Nutritionals Functional foods may have the power to prevent or improve the prognosis of diseases that increase in probability with age, such as cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and dementias. |
Food Processing August 2006 Mark Anthony |
Diet and Cancer Over the past 50 years, deaths from heart disease, stroke and infectious diseases have decreased significantly -- but the same cannot be said of cancer. |
Food Processing June 2009 Diane Toops |
Superfruits: Back to Basics You don't have to travel to faraway places to get your antioxidants. |
Nutra Solutions April 1, 2005 Marcia A. Wade |
The Function Junction The Prepared Foods' 2005 R&D Trends Survey: Functional Foods and Beverages highlights the ingredient trends, marketing and regulatory factors that produce healthful benefits and product success. |
Food Processing February 2011 Dave Fusaro |
Focus on Health: Ingredients to Improve Your Brain Function A growing body of evidence suggests some ingredients can improve cognitive function. |
Food Processing October 2009 Diane Toops |
No Health Care Debate Over Food Amid the nationwide debate over health care, Americans appear to agree on one thing: Food is one tool they can use to improve their health. |
Nutra Solutions September 18, 2007 Kerry Hughes |
Beneficial Support -- September 2007 There has been a veritable avalanche of studies citing nutritional benefits of certain foods, nutrients and herbs. This stands in contrast to the negative information that frequently emanates from the mainstream press. |
Nutra Solutions July 1, 2005 Keating & Leigh |
Heart-healthy Ingredients: The Beat Goes On Nutraceutical companies respond to cardiovascular disease with products that control cholesterol levels, increase fiber intake and contain omega-3s, phytosterols, garlic and other beneficial ingredients. |
Nutra Solutions September 1, 2005 |
Mood Food to Women's Health Moody Perceptions on Functional Foods... Women and Alternative Medicine Studies... |
Food Processing September 2011 Diane Toops |
IFIC Survey Zeros In On Consumer Perception Of Health And Wellness The seventh annual 2011 IFIC Functional Foods/Foods for Health Consumer Trending Survey shows 87 percent of American consumers are interested in learning more about beneficial products that can provide a host of health benefits. |
Food Processing June 2013 Mark Anthony |
Many New Botanicals Being Explored For Their Potential In Helping To Maintain Gut Health As Americans pursue healthier versions of foods, new botanicals and new applications for old botanicals are continuously being explored. |
Food Processing January 2013 Mark Anthony |
18 Reasons to Start Using More Nuts Acceptance of nuts by many consumers still is hindered by the fact that they are high calorie, in spite of their having earned a reputation as a healthy food among nutritionists and health professionals. |
Food Processing August 2006 Kathryn Trim |
Phytochemical A-B-Cs A brief overview on helpful chemical compounds derived from plants. |
Delicious Living Thea Deley |
The FDA Rules: The Function in Foods If your morning glass of orange juice contained calcium, or your lunchtime salad dressing boasted vitamin E, or perhaps your midafternoon snack bar supplied ginseng, you ingested nutraceuticals today. Surprised? |
AskMen.com May 13, 2014 Brett Hoebel |
Skip The Pharmacy. These Foods Will Keep You Looking Young. People don't realize that you cannot reverse aging with skincare products or lotions; that only goes skin deep and hides the signs. You have to go deeper to see that true reversal of aging starts from within. |
Food Processing April 2006 Frances Katz |
The magic in vegetables The scientific and marketing imperatives mount for working phytochemicals into your food products. |
Prepared Foods June 2009 |
R&D: Colors Claim More Than One Role Colors, in the form of beta-carotene powders or emulsions, allow food processors to both color their products and make antioxidant claims. |
Prepared Foods August 1, 2005 Kerry Hughes |
Fruits from the Tree of Life A new proprietary blend of pomegranate ellagitannins, gallotannins and anthocyanins, is now available on the market for use in dietary supplements and functional foods. It is available in powder, granular and tea cut forms. |
Food Processing February 2007 Mark Anthony |
Nutrition Beyond the Trends: South Africa's Red Rocker Rooibos is a hit among health-conscious consumers in the U.S., mostly because of its high level of antioxidants, low level of tannins and lack of caffeine. |
Food Processing October 2009 Toops & Fusaro |
Berries have a Berry Good Year in 2009 Bumper crops lead to lower prices, which lead to more applications of berries in food & beverage products. |
AskMen.com December 12, 2014 Mark Hom |
Slowing The Aging Process Eating right and exercising can help you live longer. |
Food Processing August 2012 Mark Anthony |
A Nutty Evolution: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Nuts Nuts, once shunned as a high-fat ingredient, are concentrated sources of phytochemicals. |
Food Processing August 2012 Diane Toops |
New Research Suggests Doubling Vitamin C Intake For A Healthier Heart Oregon State's Linus Pauling Institute finds evidence that higher levels of vitamin C can help reduce the chronic diseases that today kill most people in the developed world. |
AskMen.com Sabrina Rogers |
Foods That Boost Brainpower If you combine these "brain foods" with regular exercise and a good night's sleep, you'll have boosted your brainpower in no time. |
Prepared Foods May 1, 2005 |
Raisin Your Health Research shows that there is a whole class of powerful, protective antioxidants, called phytochemicals, being discovered in fruits and vegetables, which may lower the risks of certain aging diseases by minimizing oxidative stress. Eating raisins provides a good source of these compounds and can benefit children and adults. |
Food Processing February 2013 Mark Anthony |
Macronutrients and Micronutrients Offer Key Ingredients to Brain Health The brain requires adequate protein, essential fatty acids and a variety of micronutrients. If processors feel they need to think before employing formulations with ingredients for brain and cognitive health, there now is a wealth of nutraceuticals for just that. |
Food Processing November 2005 Kantha Shelke |
Better living through (food) chemistry Are you familiar with guarana, yerba mate and choline? They and other ingredients are providing quite a performance boost -- for consumers and for sales of certain foods and beverages. |
Nutra Solutions December 1, 2007 |
Nutra Solutions' Ingredients for Health Guide A guide with statistics on health condition prevalence and market size -- as well as commercially available ingredients that assist in production formulations -- is provided. |
Food Processing February 2007 Feder & Shelke |
Heart Health, Naturally Heart health isn't just about removing certain ingredients, such as trans fats and hydrogenated oils. It's also about adding ingredients, such as omega3's, fiber, antioxidants, CoQ-10 and phytosterols. |
Chemistry World May 2011 |
Chemistry in every cup The absorption and profile of both helpful and harmful compounds in coffee is complex and depends on many factors |
Food Processing December 2005 Mark Anthony |
Take Heart According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly one million Americans per year die of cardiovascular disease. That's more than 40 percent of all deaths, at a rate of nearly two per minute. |
Nutra Solutions June 2, 2006 |
Nudging in the Nutrients Nutraceutical ingredients can interact significantly with vitamins and minerals during storage and processing and have different stability characteristics. Knowing what interactions will occur is key. |
Nutra Solutions June 1, 2005 Keating & Leigh |
Multi-talented Ingredients: Tout Bene A decade ago, the concept of "functional foods" seemed distantly futuristic, even faddish. Today, multifunctional health positions are energizing the functional foods marketplace. |
Food Processing December 2010 Diane Toops |
Wellness Food Trends: Healthier Foods for the Heart Foods can be a solution (though carefully worded) for the leading cause of death. |
Chemistry World July 3, 2014 Maria Burke |
Renewed focus on dementia checked by drug challenges The risks and barriers for companies working in dementia are huge, but so too, potentially, are the rewards, says Simon Ridley, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK. |
Food Processing October 2007 |
Nutrition Beyond the Trends: Where'd I Put that Ginkgo? About a decade and a half ago, ginkgo was the hot new "brain-building" herb, touted as the natural way to pump up our memory and enhance our cognitive abilities. Maybe we should refresh our memory about this old herb. |
Food Processing February 2007 Mark Anthony |
Caution: Botanicals Working Botanicals -- nutraceutical ingredients from herbs, seeds, and fruits -- are increasingly interesting to the food industry, serving health-conscious consumers demanding "nutritive-value added" food items. |
AskMen.com Sabrina Rogers |
The Benefits Of Nutraceuticals What they are, why they've been blurring the traditional line between food and medicine, and how you can do better at your supermarket's produce counter. |
Food Processing December 2012 Heidi Parsons |
New Frontiers for Heart Healthy Ingredients While the key ingredients, such as oat bran and antioxidants, are vital, new ingredients have been gaining ground in the battle to keep our tickers ticking longer and better. |
Food Processing February 2006 Mark Anthony |
Allergies, Arthritis and Immunity: The Food Factor The link between food and immune responses, including arthritis or allergies, is as complex as the immune system itself. |
Chemistry World August 10, 2012 Elinor Hughes |
Long life rice Zhen-Yu Chen and colleagues from The Chinese University of Hong Kong fed antioxidants in black rice extract to fruit flies and observed that the flies lived longer than they normally would. Their mean lifespan increased from 44 days to 50 days. |
Health March 2008 Rachel Grumman |
The Ultimate Anti-Aging Vitamin Who knew vitamin C could fend off heart disease, cancer, memory loss -- and wrinkles? Here's how to make it work for you. |
AskMen.com Stephane Leung |
Best Heart Foods Start this New Year off right by including some of these following foods in your diets, and maybe help avoid a trip to the doctor's. |
Food Processing June 2006 Kantha Shelke |
Diet to fit into your genes The recognition that nutrients have the ability to interact and modulate molecular mechanisms underlying an individual's physiological functions is prompting a revolution in the field of nutrition. |
Chemistry World September 7, 2012 |
Food with a function Compounds normally thought of as medicines are being added to food. Elinor Hughes looks at the scientific and regulatory challenges facing these nutraceuticals. |
Food Processing December 13, 2006 |
Wellness Foods Trends 2007 Top experts in consumer and producer research bring you the latest in ingredient and product trends. |