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Nutra Solutions March 15, 2006 Marcia A. Wade	Moving Fiber off the Shelves Numerous studies have provided indisputable evidence that additional fiber in the diet helps to reduce coronary heart disease. Since fruits and vegetables are mostly water, eating those types of foods is only one method by which to increase fiber.
Prepared Foods June 2, 2006 Marcia A. Wade	Fiber du Jour Fiber, in its many forms, is influential at abating and controlling a number of chronic diseases. Dietary guidelines do not differentiate between soluble fiber and insoluble fiber, but manufacturers will need to understand their benefits and disadvantages.
Prepared Foods April 1, 2006 Marcia A. Wade	Fixing the Fiber Gap As the country becomes more aware of its fiber deficiency, manufacturers are looking at ingredients such as inulins, resistant maltodextrins, beta-glucans and pectins to efficiently fill the fiber gap.
Food Processing April 2011 Mark Anthony	Soluble Fibers: Prebiotic Boon to Health Fiber is breaking out of its "wood-chip" image with its attraction as a prebiotic component and the functional gateway to digestive health.
Food Processing March 2012 Mark Anthony	Understanding Soluble Fibers and Insoluble Fibers Food processors would be wise to decipher the subtle differences between soluble and insoluble fibers.
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Food Processing March 2011 Mark Anthony	Fiber: Out of the Rough Most Americans were not about to embrace foods from whole grains. This image is changing.
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Food Processing March 2013 Mark Anthony	Study Suggests High Dietary Fiber Related to Low Levels of Insulin Resistance in Women Consumers can add insulin resistance as an increasingly important concern along with obesity and type 2 diabetes; however, food processors can add fiber and resistant starch to help counter that concern.
Food Processing October 2011	Resistant Starch 101: A Guide to Understanding This Fiber-Like Starch Resistant starches from several vegetable sources are available to up the fiber and lower your body weight.
Prepared Foods August 1, 2005 Marcia A. Wade	The Secret Garden Consumers need to be more aware of prebiotics -- non-digestible food ingredients that selectively stimulate the growth and/or activity of helpful bacteria in the colon, and thus improve health. Most prebiotics can be added by the manufacturer to bread, ice cream, yogurt or meat.
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Food Processing January 2005 Kantha Shelke	Healthful flour alternatives Modern manufacturing practices are practically built around flour, making it a difficult ingredient to substitute for in the production of low-carb and low-glycemic foods. And while there are many healthful alternates to flour available, food formulators are finding they often demand compromise.
Prepared Foods December 12, 2006 Mannie & Stier	The Suspense! Manufacturers have found beverages an effective means to deliver healthful ingredients -- with new methods of particle suspension and the addition of fibers.
Prepared Foods February 3, 2006 Marcia A. Wade	Mother Hubbard's New Cupboard Insights into the "rhyme and reason" behind ingredients used to formulate and market weight control products.
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Delicious Living January 2007 H. K. Jones	Roughing it Keeping things moving along in your digestive system isn't fiber's only claim to fame. More and more research indicates that a high-fiber diet may help prevent diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
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Prepared Foods May 6, 2007 Elizabeth Mannie	Formulating Tasteful Nutritional Products From probiotics to soy isoflavones, the challenge is to maintain a product's health benefits while providing products that please consumer taste buds.
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Food Processing August 2006 Frances Katz	New Sources of Resistant Starch Wheat, potatoes, legumes, even tapioca are being developed as sources of resistant starches, although with different characteristics - and often more fiber - than the original corn source.
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Food Processing August 2006 Mark Anthony	Digestive Health's New Phase The gastrointestinal tract is one of the body's first lines of defense against disease. The more we understand and encourage healthy g.i. tract balance, the better we'll be able to protect ourselves from disease.
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Prepared Foods October 2007 Elizabeth Mannie	Article: Formulating Foods and Beverages for Enhanced Immunity Many ingredients have been found to enhance immunity and are popping up in new products on store shelves everywhere. Some of the more common ingredients are discussed here.
Prepared Foods April 1, 2005 Lauren Swann	Ingredient Challenges: Formulation Challenge: Shaping Sweet Success for Reduced-sugar Foods Sugared-down products have risen in just about every category where sugar can possibly be altered, and food formulators have many new options for "sugaring down" their products. But when using these ingredients, careful attention to nutrition labeling is critical.
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Food Processing April 2012 Dave Fusaro	Functional Ingredients: Consumers Reach for Fiber Research indicates consumers understand and want fiber-containing products.
Food Processing April 2006 Kantha Shelke	The New Diabetes Formulation Paradigm The recent trend of developing diabetes-specific products that are mainstream and safe enough for regular consumption could transcend all healthy food and beverage categories.
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Food Processing July 2007 Mark Anthony	Eating away at cholesterol Many people are turning to foods before they try drugs to lower their LDL cholesterol, and the food industry is well-armed to respond.
Prepared Foods May 2009	R&D: Healthy Endeavors, from Pre- to Probiotics Speakers at an R&D Applications Seminar series offer formulation solutions in an area of growing popularity: probiotics, prebiotics and dietary fiber.
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Food Processing April 2009 Kantha Shelke	Consumers Adding More Fiber to Food and Beverage Diets Packaged foods and beverages touting fiber showed double-digit growth in each of the past five years and netted $3.5 billion in 2008, a 15.5 percent increase over 2007.
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Prepared Foods April 1, 2005 Marcia A. Wade	Double-duty Dietary Fibers A new manufacturing process creates a wide range of food-grade fibers -- from low-absorbing to high water-binding types of fiber particles. The structure of the oat fiber is altered during the extraction process, allowing for better functionality.
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