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Cognis’ six-month old alliance with fellow German ingredient innovator, InterMed Discovery, has yielded its first fruit with Cognis licensing an ingredient that will target the weight management sector.
Special edition: Gut health
One of the first functional foods was a digestive health product – Yakult – a probiotic drink a Japanese scientist began selling in his home country in the 1930s.
Poor quality material attracted by artificially high prices is flooding the chondroitin market, according to UK-based supplier Gee Lawson.
AHD International is to supply functional food and beverage makers in the US with a range of coconut products, further to a new partnership announced yesterday.
People with Parkinson’s disease are more likely to be vitamin D deficient than healthy adults of the same age or patients with Alzheimer's disease, says a new study from the US.
FMC BioPolymer has announced a 15 per cent increase in all of its products as of next month, to off-set costs that its savings program does not cover.
Solae and Novozymes are expecting the publication of some patents related to the joint development of new soluble protein isolates, brining the products one step closer to commercialization.
The food industry should embrace the possibilities offered by open innovation if they are to succeed in an increasingly competitive market place, says a new review.
Turmoil in the global financial markets could, ironically, offer relief to prices in the commodity exchanges, where leading confectioners lock in key raw materials for their formulations, with evidence this week suggesting a wave of non-commercial...