News, Analysis & Insights on Nutrition, Supplements, and Health
Britain's leading supermarket group Tesco opened a store geared solely to health and natural alternative products in London last week. The Nutri Centre chain, in which Tesco has a majority share, is designed to meet growing consumer demand for...
Loders Croklaan Lipid Nutrition, the Dutch supplier of lipid-based health ingredients, has received FDA confirmation of GRAS status for its Marinol C-38, an omega-3 fatty acid product.
People who drink coffee regularly are half as likely to develop diabetes as adults, finds new research published in the latest issue of British journal The Lancet. The controversial study shows that caffeine, which actually reduces the body's...
The European sports nutrition market is to grow by 8.4 per cent between 2002-2009, according to a new report from market research analysts Frost & Sullivan. The report highlights the opportunities for sports nutrition ingredient manufacturers, and...
Earlier this week we reported on the weak cranberry market as Northland Cranberries reported third quarter results. The company is now filing a multi-count federal antitrust lawsuit against competitor Ocean Spray for anti-competitive behavior.
A new method for frying snacks is keen to tap into the current trend towards healthy eating. US company Harvest Bay has come up with a cooking method whereby by vegetable sticks and chips are vacuum fried leaving the product with half the fat of...
Dietary zeaxanthin plays an essential role in protecting the retina from light damage, report researchers at the Schepens Eye Research Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School in the US this month.
People who drink wine weekly or even monthly may reduce their risk of developing dementia, according to new research from Denmark. The scientists studied more than 1,700 people,aged 65 and over, and compared their drinking habits 15 years earlier with...
The American arm of Danish ingredients company Danisco announced this week that in order to capitalise on the most influential segment of US shoppers in America - women - the company has launched a new juice bar novelty idea, Elevations 1000.
Minneapolis-based Cargill Health and Food Technologies (H&FT) has launched a new chondritin sulfate ingredient for use in dietary supplements and health products. The company claims OptaFlex is the first solvent-free chondroitin sulfate derived from...
Leading supplement and vitamins manufacturer Twinlab reported significant losses and low sales in the third quarter and nine-month period of 2002, attributing the results to its recently announced restructuring measures. The company is also to...
From the main course to dessert, the traditional Thanksgiving meal is stuffed with healthy food choices, particularly those rich in disease-fighting antioxidants, according to a new report from by the American Chemical Society, which looks at recent...
'Health' claims made on food labels often leave consumers confused or unclear about the properties of the products, Britain's Food Standards Agency reports, following research commissioned by the agency, in the wake of draft European Commission...