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Functional Foods Inc., Long Beach, Calif., says its Green Fit beverages each provide as many as six essential health benefits including protein, antioxidants, fiber, green superfoods, energy and electrolytes. Varieties include Tropical Citrus, Lime Coconut, Pomegranate and Dragonfruit.

Scimera BioScience LLC introduced SciMune, a physician-formulated dietary supplement supporting healthy immune function and energy levels.

In Part One of Prepared Foods’ overview of ingredients for eye health, PF looked at the vitamins, minerals and other nutraceuticals, such as omega-3s, known to help protect eyes and vision. In this second of the two-part feature, PF explores the carotenoid compounds—perhaps the most important class of eye health ingredients known to science.

KonaRed Corporation, Kalaheo, Hawaii, introduced a new 10.5oz bottle for its line of KonaRed Original and Green Tea wellness drinks made with Hawaiian coffee fruit extract (billed on packaging as “Hawaiian Superfruit”).

The link between whole grain consumption and the reduction of chronic disease risk is well-documented.

Wellmune WGP is a natural food and beverage ingredient clinically proven to safely boost the immune system to help keep the body healthy.

A number of food and drinks come under the umbrella term of cardiovascular health, and not only with the traditional focus on fat and cholesterol reduction.

Prepared Foods and its NutraSolutions brand present this annual “Ingredients for Health” reference.

Women have complex nutritional needs that change over time. Perhaps for similar reasons, women tend to read food labels more than men do.

Details of a unique, infrared drying method by Vivid Harvest that preserves the vitamin and antioxidant content and capacity of fruits and vegetables was presented by Rodger Jonas, director of national sales, PL Thomas Inc., in his Prepared Foods’ R&D Application Seminar titled “Effects of Drying Methods on Vitamin C Content.”