The Prepared Foods’ 2005 R&D Trends Survey: Functional Foods and Beverages highlights the ingredient trends, marketing and regulatory factors that produce healthful benefits and product success.
The Alberta government has decided it will spend C $38 million on prion research to boost consumer confidence in beef and to contribute to possible solutions to the Mad Cow crisis.
A study, published in the January 2005 issue of Journal of the American Dietetic Association (pp. 65-71) and funded by Abbott Laboratories, shows that an herb used in traditional Indian medicine may control the rise in blood sugar that follows a meal, thus helping to treat or possibly prevent type 2 diabetes.
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A team of researchers with Scotland's University of Aberdeen reports that antioxidant consumption during pregnancy may affect the child's risk of wheeze and eczema in early childhood.
A recent study conducted by The Cooper Institute Center for Human Performance and Nutrition Research in collaboration with Proliant Health Ingredients indicates that ImmunoLin has lowering effects on LDL cholesterol in mildly hypercholesterolemic adults.
On February 18, 2005, the FDA responded to LycoRed Natural Products Industries' GRAS submission covering LycoMato[r] oleoresin and the LycoPen[r] formulations.
An in vivo animal study, using GliSODin[r] from PL Thomas, looked at ischemia-reperfusion injury, which is caused by the restriction and reintroduction of blood flow.