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Companies extracting sterols from pine trees are looking for a greater share of Europe's cholesterol-lowering foods market, exploiting the challenges faced by producers of vegetable oil-derived sterols.
Health ingredients firm Cognis has introduced two African plant extracts that it claims can offer real antioxidant benefits to iced tea and other drinks looking for a healthy positioning.
Bed sores, which afflict up to one-tenth of hospital patients, heal more quickly when key supplements are added to a standard hospital diet, reports new research from Australia.
An Austrian research team has unveiled good news for the makers of energy and stimulant drinks, with evidence that caffeine delivers visibly increased brain activity that stimulates short-term memory.