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The study of polyphenols has been popular for some time now, with study after study touting the benefits of coffee, green tea, or dark chocolate.

The market for dietary supplements is expected to reach $13.0 billion by 2018.

The star of Bump Water is folic acid, essential to the healthy development of children, before and during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.

While there is no actual definition for “clean label,” clean label products generally give consumers an easy-to-understand ingredient statement that does not bring questions on what is included in a food.

A Global Industry Analysts report estimates the value of the world’s functional foods and beverages market will reach $130 billion by 2015.

Key to capitalizing on curcumin’s health benefits is improving its limited uptake into the body.

The changing consumer trends with increasing health awareness are driving the market for functional and fortified foods.

With the wide variety of vitamins, minerals, botanicals and nutraceuticals that can be used to fortify foods and beverages, premixed ingredient systems exist to allow manufacturers benefits and savings that require almost no effort to attain.

The researchers used a measure of total antioxidant values in foods, which takes into account how the nutrients work together.

Details of a unique, infrared drying method by Vivid Harvest that preserves the vitamin and antioxidant content and capacity of fruits and vegetables was presented by Rodger Jonas, director of national sales, PL Thomas Inc., in his Prepared Foods’ R&D Application Seminar titled “Effects of Drying Methods on Vitamin C Content.”