Two thousand years ago, Hippocrates said, "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food." Was he anticipating the advent of functional foods? And, will functional foods follow the difficult path supplements are now experiencing?
O.C. Lugo, an international source for high-quality nutritional and functional ingredient for foods, beverages and supplements, is best known for its extensive line of gelatin products, including kosher fish gelatin.
Proponents of nutrigenomics maintain that understanding one’s genetic make up provides for more accurate dietary guidance. Here’s a look at an emerging science that already has made significant advances.
A new study published in the March 2004 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, led by Dr. Mark I. Evans of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (Manhattan, N.Y.) compared 27,000 pregnancies from 1997 and 34,000 from 2000. It concluded that folic acid (a.k.a. vitamin B9), in addition to breads and grains sold in the U.S., cut by a th
The exclusive 2004 Prepared Foods Functional Foods Trends Survey delves into what food and nutritional companies see as their major challenges and opportunities in the functional foods arena.
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