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Whey peptide rich in β-lactolin may improve subjective stress: Study

10-Oct-2024 By Olivia Haslam

New research funded by Kirin suggests that daily β-lactolin supplementation may improve mood, offering a potential dietary strategy to ease trait anxiety and perceived stress.

Danone caps 30 years of gut health innovation with Actimel+ Triple Action release

02-Oct-2024 By Teodora Lyubomirova

The dairy major has enhanced its functional yogurt beverage to address key nutritional challenges for European consumers while also lightening up the range’s packaging.

Danone targets feed-related emissions reductions through new MoU

19-Sep-2024 By Teodora Lyubomirova

The dairy major aims to cut feed procurement-related emissions by leveraging a lysine supplement on farms across four continents.

Why is Danone removing Nutri-Score?

13-Sep-2024 By Augustus Bambridge-Sutton

After a change in Nutri-Score’s algorithm, Danone has announced it will remove the front-of-pack labelling from some of its products. Why?

Probiotic strain may increase happiness and reduce stress: Study

09-Sep-2024 By Louisa Richards

Daily supplementation with Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HN001 may boost happiness and perceived stress scores over four weeks in moderately to highly stressed participants, according to a new study from Fonterra.

dsm-firmenich secures UK and EU approvals for HMO ingredients

05-Sep-2024 By Olivia Haslam

Nutritional ingredients supplier dsm-firmenich announced that the United Kingdom and European Union have approved the company's human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) ingredients—3-FL and a mixture of LNFP-I and 2'-FL—as novel food ingredients.

Danone explores kefir’s untapped potential with new Activia range

04-Sep-2024 By Teodora Lyubomirova

Danone has launched its first kefir range in the UK as the company aims to tackle consumer scepticism and raise awareness of the fermented dairy product’s health benefits.

Nestlé’s CEO shake-up: Falling prices, flat sales and challenging market dynamics

23-Aug-2024 By Teodora Lyubomirova

How surprising is Nestlé’s CEO change in the context of the company’s H1 2024 results?

Yili explores microencapsulation for new range of fortified shelf-stable products

18-Jul-2024 By Teodora Lyubomirova

The Chinese dairy major will leverage microencapsulation in order to fortify products such as heat-treated dairy beverages, providing additional health benefits to consumers.

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De-risking debates: Is the premium, high-value product pathway the only one open to biomanufacturing firms?

25-Jun-2024 By Pearly Neo

Many food companies utilising biomanufacturing as a core component of operations have made a pivot towards premium, high-value products – but is this the only pathway open to them in the quest towards the holy grail of protein production for the masses?

Lallemand and dsm-firmenich partner for synbiotic infant nutrition solutions

24-Apr-2024 By Olivia Haslam

Lallemand Health Solutions and dsm-firmenich are partnering to launch new synergistic synbiotic solutions combining human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) and probiotics for for early-life nutrition.

Arla acquires Volac’s Whey Nutrition business to expand sports nutrition offering

23-Apr-2024 By Olivia Haslam

Arla Foods Ingredients has signed an acquisition agreement with the owners of Volac’s Whey Nutrition business, which will include a takeover of the Volactive range.

High consumption frequency of cheese and yoghurt could reduce occurrence of asthma symptoms – Iran study

23-Apr-2024 By Hui Ling Dang

A high weekly intake of dairy products, such as cheese and yoghurt, among children and adolescents was associated with 42% lower odds of wheezing, compared to those who never or only occasionally consume these foods, say researchers in the Middle East.

Full-fat dairy can lower the risk of diabetes and reverse pre-diabetes - study

15-Apr-2024 By Teodora Lyubomirova

A 9-year cohort study has found evidence that consuming whole-fat dairy may be linked to reversing hyperglycaemia and preventing its progression to type 2 diabetes in pre-diabetic patients.

Arla’s low-protein infant formula offers results similar to breast milk feeding

04-Apr-2024 By Olivia Haslam

Infants fed low-protein formulas can achieve weight gain and metabolic profiles closer to that of breastfed infants, Arla Foods Ingredients-funded research has concluded.

Dairy in potatoes? Molecular farming newcomer teaches spuds to act like mammals

03-Apr-2024 By Flora Southey

Molecular farming newcomer Finally Foods is emerging from stealth mode to produce casein from plants – with the help of AI.

‘A significant breakthrough’: Researchers develop human milk fat analog from microalgae

25-Mar-2024 By Asia Sherman

Biotechnology company Checkerspot has reproduced an essential human milk fat by fermenting microalgae at scale for the development of infant formula that replicates the nutritional benefits of breastfeeding.

Study from Canada challenges assumptions about organic and inorganic selenium in dairy cow diets

13-Mar-2024 By Jane Byrne

A study, from the University of Guelph in Canada, aimed at understanding how the source of selenium supplementation influences the performance and selenium levels in lactating dairy cattle, has generated some surprising findings.

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Yoplait: Narrative around children’s yoghurt must change

13-Mar-2024 By William Dodds

More than 1m children in the UK are at risk of their development being impacted because they lack nutrients such as calcium and vitamin D, according to a new report from kids’ yoghurt manufacturer Yoplait.

Crucial communication: 'Doing science for science's sake won't benefit anybody'

12-Mar-2024 By Nikki Hancocks

Science is becoming sexy as consumers and media realise the importance of getting their nutrition and health facts straight from the scientists, and the science nutrition firm Zoe is spearheading consumer communication on all things gut health.

Nizo hints at advancing alternative protein innovation with newly-acquired lactic acid hub

07-Mar-2024 By Teodora Lyubomirova

The food research organization is currently evaluating how its bio-purification process could benefit from the newly-acquired lactic acid production facility formerly owned by Givaudan company Vika B. V.

High-protein dairy is booming, but how 'healthy' is it?

06-Feb-2024 By Teodora Lyubomirova

Danone has become the latest manufacturer to release a range of high-protein dairy products in the UK. But can high-protein yogurts - that typically contain thickeners, starches and sweeteners - really be considered ‘healthy’?

Novonesis is born of Novozymes and Chr. Hansen merger

01-Feb-2024 By Olivia Haslam

Novozymes and Chr. Hansen have completed their merger, giving rise to a new global biosolutions company called Novonesis.

NutraIngredients Awards: Entries closing Feb 5

01-Feb-2024 By Nikki Hancocks

There's still some time to enter the prestigious NutraIngredients Awards but hurry! The entry deadline is Monday, Feb 5.

FrieslandCampina Ingredients is Thailand’s ‘only provider of both HMOs and GOS’ after regulatory nod

30-Jan-2024 By Teodora Lyubomirova

The ingredients division of the Dutch dairy co-op said its 2’-fucosyllactose ingredient has been approved for use in both infant formulas as well as young children products.

NutraIngredients Awards 2024: What the judges are looking for

26-Jan-2024 By Nikki Hancocks

The NutraIngredients Awards are back for 2024 and celebrating a decade of honouring the best and brightest in the industry, but what are our judges looking for?

Top reasons to enter the NutraIngredients Awards!

17-Jan-2024 By Nikki Hancocks

The NutraIngredients Awards are back for 2024 and celebrating a decade of honouring the best and brightest in the nutraceuticals industry

New Zoe Gut Shot a 'big step forward' for gut health market

10-Jan-2024 By Nikki Hancocks

A probiotic kefir shot developed by the personalised nutrition scientists at Zoe has been hailed “a big step forward for the gut-health macro trend”, with industry pundits applauding the science-first product development approach.

Enter now! Join the 10th anniversary celebration of the NutraIngredients Awards

10-Jan-2024 By Nikki Hancocks

The NutraIngredients Awards are back with a bang in 2024 as we celebrate our 10th year honouring the best and brightest in ingredients, products, companies, people and projects across the dietary supplements industry.

Lactalis unveils solar thermal power plant for sustainable whey production

05-Jan-2024 By Olivia Haslam

Lactalis, the global dairy giant, has inaugurated the “largest solar thermal power plant in France” allowing it to cut CO2 emissions by 2,000 tons per year.

NI Awards "helped put Pharmako Biotechnologies on the map”

21-Dec-2023 By Nikki Hancocks

With the NutraIngredients Awards celebrating its 10 year anniversary in 2024, we speak to winners from the last decade and find out how their award win has impacted their business.

dsm-firmenich secures 3-FL HMO market access in Europe

15-Dec-2023 By Nikki Hancocks

dsm-firmenich has secured European market access for its 3-fucosyllactose (3-FL) ingredient, one of the most abundant human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) in human milk.

No supplementary payments for FrieslandCampina farmers in 2023 as dairy co-op looks to cut 1,800 jobs

13-Dec-2023 By Teodora Lyubomirova

Dairy farmers supplying Dutch dairy co-operative FrieslandCampina won’t receive supplementary cash payments for 2023 due to ‘disappointing’ financial results, the business reported.

Food Ingredients Europe 2023: Key themes

06-Dec-2023 By Nikki Hancocks and Olivia Haslam

Cognitive health, digestion+, beauty-from-within and women's health were some of the key health themes that emerged from Food Ingredients Europe, in Frankfurt, last week (Nov 28-30).

UK competition authority to investigate infant formula market

05-Dec-2023 By Teodora Lyubomirova

The competition watchdog will examine what influences consumer choice and what barriers exist for manufacturers to enter the ‘high concentrated’ market.

Industry responds to revised standards for follow-up formula

04-Dec-2023 By Olivia Brown

The industry has celebrated the revision of the Codex Standard for Follow-up Formula which brings tighter standards into place, but a baby milk action group questions the allowance of additives and sweet flavours.

Dairy protein innovation at FiE 2023: From heat-stable whey to clear protein shakes

30-Nov-2023 By Teodora Lyubomirova

As Food Ingredients Europe 2023 took place in Frankfurt, Germany, DairyReporter caught up with Arla Foods Ingredients and FrieslandCampina Ingredients to see how each company is advancing protein innovation.

‘We are open and looking wide’: Senior VP of Valio R&D talks market opportunities and empowering small-batch infant formula makers

21-Nov-2023 By Teodora Lyubomirova

DairyReporter speaks to Harri Kallioinen, senior vice-president of the R&D arm of Finnish dairy group Valio, on the company's new dry blend-optimized solution and what market opportunities exist beyond the realms of infant nutrition.

The NutraIngredients Awards celebrate a decade of industry honours

16-Nov-2023 By Nikki Hancocks

The NutraIngredients Awards will be back with a bang in 2024 as we celebrate our 10th year honouring the best and brightest in ingredients, products, companies, people, and projects across the dietary supplements industry.

Bovine colostrum reduces inflammation markers in footballers

15-Nov-2023 By Olivia Haslam

Bovine colostrum (BC) supplementation could strengthen immune system and maintain training continuity in footballers, a new study has concluded.

Limosilactobacillus vaginalis offers postbiotic strategy for compromised microbiota in infants

01-Nov-2023 By Olivia Haslam

Supplementation with heat-killed microbes of vaginal origin could help to nurture a healthy gut microbiota in infants, a new study has concluded.

Study: Nutrient dense formula could improve cognition and behaviour in infants

31-Oct-2023 By Olivia Haslam

Nutritional supplementation could support developmental myelination, a critical process in learning and development, in growing infants and young children, according to a new industry funded study.

Probiotic shows promise for reducing frequency of common cold symptoms

26-Oct-2023 By Olivia Haslam

Susceptibility to common cold symptoms such as runny nose, sneezing, and sore throat, could be reduced by supplementing with probiotic LAB strain Lactobacillus paragasseri SBT2055 (LG2055), particularly in people with weakened immunity, a new study has...

FrieslandCampina Ingredients doubles production of whey protein isolate and MFGM

20-Oct-2023 By Olivia Haslam

FrieslandCampina Ingredients, the diary company focused on nutrition solutions, has announced a significant expansion of its production capacity for whey protein isolate and milk fat globule membrane (MFGM).

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