Nexira develops desert date extract with diosgenin for women’s health
December 10, 2014
Nexira has developed a new extract from Balanites aegyptiaca (commonly known as desert date) containing native diosgenin and designed for the nutraceutical market.
Canada approves Naturex’s Pacran for urinary tract health claims
December 10, 2014
Naturex’s Pacran®, a natural solution for urinary comfort, has been awarded a Natural Product Number from Health Canada. This is the second time Pacran® has successfully completed a governmental procedure of claim authorization.
After static growth involving antioxidant claims from 2011 to 2012, the numbers of food and beverages with antioxidant claims did grow in 2013, as recorded by Innova Market Insights.
Findings strengthen link between specific brain region and normal memory decline
November 12, 2014
Dietary cocoa flavanols—naturally occurring bioactives found in cocoa—reversed age-related memory decline in healthy older adults, according to a study led by Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) scientists.
Essential elements for production of healthy bones, joints and skin
November 10, 2014
Peptides from collagen protein are unique in that their specific make-up of 17-19 different amino acids, and high proportion of the amino acids glycine, proline and hydroxyproline, are essential elements for production of healthy bones, joints and skin.
Energy drinks proclaiming the involvement of clinical experts or physicians seems to be something of a mini-trend all unto its own, possibly a form of response to the public backlash against energy beverages, in general.