New flavours boost milk drinking
A recent study in US schools shows that students' milk consumption and nutrition status can be significantly improved by increasing the range of flavours on offer and the quality of milk provided in schools.
Archives for September 26, 2002
Discovery of celiac cause, and possible treatment by supplements
A team of US researchers have discovered the cause and a potential treatment for celiac disease, the inability to digest gluten, a major protein in wheat, rye and barley products.
Let's talk about nutrition
Although diet is implicated in scores of illnesses and healthcare concerns, a new study finds that just one in four American women initiate conversations with their doctors about nutrition. And 53 per cent of those who visited a doctor in the past...
Weider reports 1Q results
US marketer of private label vitamins saw sales drop in its 2003 first quarter, due to the sale of two brands in July this year. However gross profit and operating income was up on the same period last year.
Whole Living to enter 50 new markets
Vestrio, a subsidiary of wholefoods marketer Whole Living, is to launch in fifty new countries, the company announced this week.
ADM shakes hands in Cuba
Archer Daniels Midland became the first US company on Thursday to sign contracts with Cuban food importer Alimport as an unprecedented US agricultural trade show got under way in Havana.
Food science provides the answers
Consumer preferences are currently moving towards easily prepared food, less severely processed (vitamins and nutrients preserved), natural (without preservatives and other artificial additives), healthy (functional food, low fat, less salt), and more...
China adds value to soy sauce
Chinese nutritionists have fortified soy sauce with iron in order to reduce the nation's anaemia levels caused by deficiency of the mineral.
LeCarb goes nationwide in US
LeCarb frozen dessert, targeted at diabetics and dieters, is to be distributed across the US, according to manufacturer SouthWest Foods.