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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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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 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 December 2008 |
Ingredient Trends to Watch in 2009 Functional ingredients for health are moving in two directions: a widening application of individual nutraceuticals and an increase in "condition marketing." |
Food Processing June 2012 |
How the Food Industry Defines Botanicals More than 1,600 botanicals and their derivatives are sold in the U.S. in a special food category called "dietary supplements." |
Prepared Foods May 1, 2006 |
Ingredient Formulation Tools Understanding the functions of gums commonly used in food and beverage systems. |
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 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. |
Food Processing February 2010 David Feder |
Wellness Foods: Healthy Beverages offer Health in a Can Consumers are guzzling antioxidants, fruits, vegetables and other good-for-you ingredients -- but formulation hurdles remain. |
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. |
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. |
Food Processing August 2006 Kathryn Trim |
Phytochemical A-B-Cs A brief overview on helpful chemical compounds derived from plants. |
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. |
Prepared Foods January 1, 2007 |
Essential Facts on Functional Fibers The optimal use of dietary fiber ingredients depends on understanding a variety of aspects -- ranging from their definitions to issues in the formulation and processing of foods |
Food Processing December 2007 David Fede |
Wellness Ingredient Trends 2008 Trends in wellness that overarching obesity, diabetes and heart disease are spreading themselves too thin. The ingredient trends within these diseases are where processors will need to focus their energies. |
Food Processing June 2009 Diane Toops |
Superfruits: Back to Basics You don't have to travel to faraway places to get your antioxidants. |
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. |
Prepared Foods February 2008 Richard F. Stier |
R&D Application: Innovations in Dressings, Sauces and Dips Hydrocolloids or gums provide food product developers with a multitude of functional options. |
Prepared Foods February 5, 2006 |
Enhancing Baked Goods' Quality A conference featuring omega-3s and other fortifiers, proteins and stabilizers useful to formulators wrestled with new product concepts. |
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. |
Science News July 28, 2007 Janet Raloff |
A Gut Feeling about Coffee People's gut microbes digest fiber from coffee in a fermentation process, making beneficial compounds. |
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. |
Food Processing October 2007 |
Power Up: Ingredients for Energy and Immunity One of the hottest trends is designing and marketing foods and beverages promising quick fixes to our energy- and health-deprived society. |
Nutra Solutions June 2, 2006 |
Successful Aging and the Role of Nutrients A review of the important mechanisms of functional foods that may improve health. |
Food Processing June 2011 David Feder |
Wellness Food Processors Show a Growing Interest in Botanicals That botanical solutions for health are big is no question. But why are they taking so long to get traction among consumers? |
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. |
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. |
Food Processing February 2007 David Feder |
Wellness Foods New Ingredient Profiles: February Aleurone... Protective antioxidant ingredients... Botanical extracts... All-natural preservatives... Water-soluble phytosterols... |
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. |
Food Processing October 2011 Mark Anthony |
Energy Drinks Take Aim at Busy Consumers Consumers are flocking to energy drinks in an attempt to feel better about nutrition while maintaining our 21st Century fast-paced lifestyle. |
Prepared Foods September 2008 Claudia O'Donnell |
Article: Emerging Healthy Ingredients: Staples to Stars A few surprises surfaced in the i2008 Prepared Foods' R&D Trends Survey: Functional Foods. |
Prepared Foods October 2007 Daniel Best |
Article: Glossary: Dietary Fiber's State of Confusion A focus on the meaning of prebiotics, digestible and indigestible carbohydrates and crude, total, insoluble and soluble dietary fiber. |
Chemistry World September 23, 2014 |
Chemistry in bloom There's chemistry among the specimens at many botanical gardens. Sarah Houlton talks to the scientists involved |
Outside October 2004 |
Chris Kilham Interview The author of Hot Plants: Nature's Proven Sex Boosters for Men and Women, discusses his frist hand experiences with the uplifting power of ten easily purchased botanical "remedies." |
Food Processing June 2006 |
Ingredient Round-Up: Gums & hydrocolloids These ingredients deliver fantastic functionality to processors of bakery, beverage, dairy, center-of-the-plate protein and other food products. |
Food Processing August 2006 Feder & Fusaro |
Special Report: `Nutrition technology' expo Health and nourishment were the key ingredients at June's IFT show. |
Food Processing June 2012 Diane Toops |
Beverage Manufacturers Face a Number Of Challenges When Using Botanicals Manufacturers are finding increasing demand for botanical remedies is both a national and international trend. |
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 |
Science News October 18, 2003 Janet Raloff |
As If You Needed Another Reason to Eat Strawberries (with recipe) Scientists at Cornell University find that this fragile fruit not only tastes great and contains vitamins but also may offer surprisingly potent benefits in the body's fight against cancer and heart disease. |
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 June 2010 |
Ingredient Round Up: Fiber We get to the bulk of the matter with this month's ingredient round up. |
Food Processing June 2007 |
Ingredient Round-Up: Fiber Beverage fibers... Tapioca and water soluble fibers... Resistant starch and cereal solution sets... etc. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Amber Dance |
Peering Back in Time Joseph P. Noel wants to use paleontology to learn how plants endured history's harsh climates and how to ready crops to face severe conditions in the future. |
Food Processing April 2010 Diane Toops |
How to Formulate Healthier Snacks for Kids Building healthier snacks for perpetually hungry kids moves front and center. |
Food Processing September 2005 |
From the Bench: Fruits, vegetables and nuts This round-up features several natural ingredients which, while not new in and of themselves, keep finding new applications in food processing. |