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New research shows people who eat canned foods typically have healthier diets and consume more essential nutrients.
June 3, 2014
Canned foods are not only a staple in healthier diets, they are associated with higher intakes of fruit and vegetables, dairy, lean protein and whole grains.
Nutrient premixes are all-in-one, custom blends that offer food and beverage manufacturers numerous benefits, including ingredient accuracy and consistency, plus decreased labor and inventory costs.
With the wide variety of vitamins, minerals, botanicals and nutraceuticals that can be used to fortify foods and beverages, premixed ingredient systems exist to allow manufacturers benefits and savings that require almost no effort to attain.
Recommended fiber consumption varies by age and gender, but it ranges between 21-38g per day. Considering Americans average roughly 15g of fiber per day, there is clearly room to grow.
Increasingly, food manufacturers want to use nanoparticles to boost nutrition by adding compounds with health benefits such as carotenoids, omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins A, D and E.
The nutrition label on the front of a box of cereal, a frozen dinner or any other food should be as quick and easy to read as the Energy Star label on a clothes washer or an air-conditioner, according to a study requested by Congress.