Finding the over-50s functional foods market

The over-50s have peculiar nutrition needs that, increasingly, are being catered to by functional foods makers as Shane Starling found out at a recent conference on the subject in Amsterdam.

He spoke with chair, Dr Sian Astley, from the UK-based Institute of Food Research, after the event.

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