Americans continue to see weight-control foods and beverages on store shelves, with some products ridding themselves of negatively perceived ingredients, while others add such benefits as satiety and healthier positionings.
Many born before 1960 may remember the nation’s interstate highways lined with forests of billboards, interspersed with unsightly businesses and junkyards.
Beta-Carotene 15% LCS, from DSM Nutritional Products, gives products “a healthy, pro-vitamin a advantage, while enabling the development of meal replacement drinks, powdered beverages, stick packs, nutrition bars and dairy products, without the characteristic orange/yellow color,” according to the company.
Click below to view an “Online Chart of Weight Management Product Ingredients” that is featured in an article entitled "Ingredient Options for Weighty Formulations" appearing in Prepared Foods' August 2010
Foods and ingredients to counter aging grow in interest. Certain vitamins and minerals, amino acids and an array of antioxidants, from Superfruits to green tea and carotenoids, are being used in such products.
Instances of workers “brown bagging it” and bringing meals to work to save money has increased, as a result of the recession. In Asia, food and drink products with very specific positioning to workers is not uncommon.