Fruits, Vegetables & Nuts

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Vegetable Juices’ new savory vegetable juice concentrates add truly authentic, bold taste to a wide range of applications including soups, sauces, dressings and marinades—as well as dairy products and cheeses and even baked goods.

Tree Top CEO Keith Gomes knew the company was shortlisted for the Seattle Business magazine Manufacturing Awards when he went to Seattle recently.

Berries are delicious, especially in their peak season: summer. Yet processors can capture that summertime taste all year long with summer berry ingredients from Van Drunen Farms (VDF).

Blue Diamond Almonds Global Ingredients Division has introduced line of almond flours. Officials say this ingredient will contribute to the nutritional enhancement and expansion of formulation possibilities for food manufacturers worldwide.

Mars Chocolate announced that the company met a significant benchmark in ensuring the sustainability of edible peanuts. In 2014, 51 percent of the peanuts used for the company’s U.S. products were high-oleic acid peanuts (HOAPs), helping the company keep pace with increasing product demand.

The tart cherry industry kicked off a marketing campaign with Competitor Group, Inc. (CGI), to motivate endurance athletes that are increasingly looking for natural ways to aid exercise recovery.

Two new studies presented at the Experimental Biology 2015 conference in Boston offered new evidence that eating just 3 to 4 servings of strawberries a day can reduce risk factors for heart disease and diabetes.

The organic kale powder called fujiKale™ has been shown to be effective in lowering blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol according to clinical study results presented at the 37th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Society of Hypertension and made available to American audiences today.

New research presented at the 2015 Experimental Biology meeting expands on the current body of evidence suggesting that eating dried plums may offer benefits ranging from supporting bone health in post-menopausal women to helping to reduce inflammation in smokers. The research headlines are:

New research, presented March 29 via oral presentation at the 2015 Experimental Biology meeting, suggests American adults who eat canned fruits and vegetables not only have better diets and eat more total produce compared to those who do not, but also enjoy a higher intake of fiber and potassium.