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Danish ingredients group Danisco has launched a new stabilizer ingredient designed to allow ice cream manufacturers to cut the fat content of their products while still maintaining a creamy mouthfeel.
Drinking four or more cups of coffee a day could cut the risk of developing type-2 diabetes by over 23 per cent, say American and Finnish researchers.
As the European functional foods market is growing, companies that have built their business out of the supplement sector are regarding it as a platform for increasing sales.
Using prebiotics as carriers could protect probiotics during processing and storage, as well imparting their own beneficial effects in the finished product, suggests new research from Finland.
New Zealand Wool Equities is has reached an unconditional agreement to sell its research, development and IP operation Canesis to state-owned Agresearch, leaving the holding company with nutraceutical company Keratec as its only major operation.
A new FDA commissioner has been confirmed before the US Senate, after serving as acting commissioner since the September 2005 resignation of the previous holder of the position.