News, Analysis & Insights on Nutrition, Supplements, and Health
Vitamin K focus
Mention vitamins A to E, and most people will know why they need them and what foods to find them. Not so vitamin K, a comparatively little known vitamin that has been the subject of several recent scientific investigations for its role in bone health...
Nutrition has been identified as one of the six priorities of new EFSA executive director Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, as Europe prepares for forthcoming legislation on health claims and fortification that the agency looks likely to play a role in...
Middle-aged women could benefit from calcium supplements suggests a new study that is yet another twist to the calcium-dairy weight loss debate.
Weekly Comment
Chocolate has a nice feeling to it - tasty, fun, luxurious and slightly sinful. This is comfort food, accessible to all and epitomised in the recent film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Researchers in India have identified green colonial microalgae with extractable carotenoids, especially lutein - the first time that the antioxidant activity of the algae has been reported.
The food regulator for Australia and New Zealand is calling for public comment on a proposal that would require all bread-making flour to be fortified with the B vitamin folic acid.