Archives for September 7, 2026

NI+Science vs politics: Kiwi’s long road to EU health-claim approval

It took four years after Europe’s food-safety scientists backed green kiwifruit’s digestive-health claim for regulators in Brussels to approve it, raising the bigger question: What happens when the science is settled, but the politics are not?

Across the Nutraverse: Nestlé sells Nature’s Bounty, gut-native bacterium gets Novel Foods, NI on WeChat

Catch up with our weekly round-up of key news from across the Nutraverse.

Aging expert: How intermittent fasting could turn back the biological clock

A pioneering academic in the field of cell biology will join the British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) conference in Oxford this week to spotlight how a fasting-mimicking diet can trigger processes linked to improved metabolic health, cellular...

L. plantarum improves vaginal microbiota in healthy women - Malaysia RCT

Oral supplementation with the probiotic strain Probio87 (Lactiplantibacillus plantarum) improved both vaginal and gut microbiota in healthy women after three months, according to a new study published in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research.

CPHI/HI Korea 2026

First in Korea: CJ Wellcare debuts health functional foods containing MACs

South Korean firm CJ Wellcare recently launched a new brand of functional foods that apply Microbiota-Accessible Carbohydrates (MACs) as a key ingredient, said to be a first in the country.