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Drinks with added health benefits are stealing the spotlight from the saturated cola market, finds a new report, which suggests that manufacturers are starting to look to elixirs and ready-to-drink tea and coffee to regain sales growth.
The UK needs a national nutrition strategy to tackle the long-term causes of some of its most costly chronic diseases, argues a scientist in a leading British journal Science and Public Affairs.
Black tea extracts show promise as both topical and orally-active inhibitors of inflammation, according to research from Rutgers University to be presented at the Worldnutra conference in Las Vegas this month.
An infant's diet, known to be important for early mental development, may also play a significant role in the risk of mental illness or criminal behavior in later life, suggests a new study.
An increase in children's consumption of soft drinks together with a decline in that of milk may be the cause behind a marked increase in forearm fractures in adolescents, suggests a new study.
Two of the supplement makers sued by St Louis-based ZeaVision earlier this year have agreed to settle the patent infringement claims, said the company, which is still pressing for damages from another supplement firm and Roche Vitamins.
Heart disease patients in the UK taking the blood thinning drug warfarin have been warned to avoid cranberry juice, after reports that the drink increases the drug's potency.
Balchem has revised its outlook for the third quarter, following continued softness in the encapsulated and nutritional products segment, said the firm yesterday.
Biacore International has had its food analysis kit, used for the rapid routine testing of the vitamin food supplement folic acid, fully validated and certified as a Performance Tested Method by the Association of Analytical Communities Research...
After a heated tug of war with the board, the man who last year took speciality chemicals company ISP private has abandoned efforts to gain control of US chemicals company Hercules.