A dozen years ago, LycoRed Natural Products Industries Ltd. began a project to develop, through conventional breeding, tomatoes with two to three times the lycopene content of regular tomatoes.
A dietary ingredient extracted from sugar beets may become the focus of a cost-effective first step therapy for liver disease, and a potential risk reducer for cardiovascular disease.
Although discovered in 1979, the micronutrient pyrroloquinoline quinone (PPQ) has only recently been identified as the first new vitamin isolated in 55 years.