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?
A health claim petition requesting the FDA allow use of eight dietary supplement health claims associating chromium picolinate supplementation with reduced risk of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and related disease conditions has been submitted.
An omega-3 powder has received USA FDA GRAS affirmation. Ocean Nutrition Canada’s omega-3 powder fish oil ingredient has a very high nutritional density of omega-3.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing a petition for a health claim suggesting the consumption of soy protein-based foods may reduce the risks of certain types of cancer, including breast, prostate and colon cancer.
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.
Michael A. Crawford of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition believes the future mental health, possibly the survival, of the human race may depend on protecting the Earth’s marine environment and resources.
Erie Foods International Inc. and Murray Goulburn Nutritionals have added lactoferrin and GMP to their current line of fresh curd caseinates, caseins, whey protein isolates and milk protein concentrates.