NIE 2014
Arla Foods Ingredients to Aquire Volac Whey Nutrition Business
Arla Foods Ingredients (Denmark) is moving forward with its acquisition of Volac’s Whey Nutrition business, after it was approved by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority. The regulator’s go-ahead followed an agreement between the two companies, which was signed in April 2024. The business is built around a processing facility at Felinfach in Wales, which ...
Probiotic Reach
As the list of the health benefits probiotics offer expands, suppliers and manufacturers must take a number of factors into account to ensure that the finished product is stable and effective.According to the firm BCC Research, the global market of probiotic ingredients, supplements and foods nearly reached $27.1 billion in 2013 and will grow at ...
Kid Twists on Adult Products: Creating a Story of the Unexpected
Adult gummy vitamins, energy jelly beans, vitamin C lollipops, all of these dosage forms and more are helping to drive sales in the supplement space. What is appealing about them? Certainly, they help with “pill fatigue,” an ever-present issue in this category, but beyond that, I think they offer something unexpected. A twist on the ...
Study: Mediterranean Diet, Olive Oil and Nuts Can Help Reverse Metabolic Syndrome
For people with metabolic syndrome, a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts may help reverse the condition, indicate findings from a clinical trial published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Approximately 25 percent of adults around the world have metabolic syndrome. The syndrome exists in the presence of three or more factors ...
IFT Names Nine Fats to Include in a Healthy Diet
The September issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), details how fatty acids and nutritional oils may benefit cognition, weight management, heart health, eye and brain development, and even mood. 1. Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Omega-3 fatty acids are associated with brain development, cognition, eye health, dementia and depression. They ...
Building Blood Sugar Support
No longer an isolated category, experts agree glucose maintenance is a “building block” that should be part of any health maintenance strategy.Diabetes prevention has become a major public health investment since 350 million people are currently living with diabetes, among which 90 percent have type 2 diabetes, a chronic but preventable disease, according to the ...
Navigating Essential Fatty Acids
Bad press had its effect on fish oil product sales; now the industry is looking at more science, education, GOED and plant-based products to move the market along swimmingly.With unfavorable reports on mislabeling and studies questioning their benefits, sales of fish oil supplements have declined this year, but suppliers say the state of the market ...
Substitute Ingredients Bakeries Lead in and Confectionaries
The growing market is focused on less un-healthy ingredients instead of more healthier ones.The market for natural bakery and confectionary products and ingredients is consistently growing today due to health-conscious trends and research. Confectionaries, which are well-known as candies and chocolates and bakeries, which we all know are oven-baked goods, most of the time made ...
The Due Diligence of Aging Gracefully and Naturally
Long before Botox and hair extensions, consumers looked to natural ways to fade away wrinkles and grow longer hair, and they are coming full circle in the 21st Century with natural ingredients and supplements.Beauty is only skin deep, and promotes personality rather than good looks. And that’s the way it should be.In an age when ...
Summarizing Sanitation
Clean is lean. Strict sanitation processes are the lasting cornerstone of safety, notably for products meant to be ingested into the human body.We all tend to cringe when we hear of recalls of natural foods (lettuce, etc.) due to nefarious bacteria nestled on a batch; this is usually found after someone (or more than one) ...
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