Pre- and Probiotics 2013: Yes, let’s call it unmissable
Seven webinars. Brand and supplier insights. Regulatory analysis. Market analysis. Marketing analysis. Science. You had better put this in your diary...
Archives for March 15, 2013
Special edition: Antioxidants and carotenoids
Antioxidants and Pro-oxidants: Two Sides of the Same Sword
Heads or tails, the yin and the yang – there are two sides to everything, and the same can be said for the ‘antioxidant’ debate. In this guest article, Steve Baugh, Technical Services Director of ChromaDex Analytics Inc, gives us his views on...
Special edition: Antioxidants and Carotenoids
A red revolution: As the science grows for lycopene, will the market follow?
Lycopene has a growing reputation among the carotenoids, but have we started to see a red revolution in the market? In this special edition article, NutrIngredients asks where the science and the market data stand on the tomato compound.
Vegetable, non-bovine milks are not suitable breast milk substitutes, ANSES warns parents
Children up to the age of one that are fed vegetable milk or milk from non-bovine animals as an alternative to breast milk or infant formula are at risk of becoming malnourished, the French Agency for Food, Environment and Occupational Health & Safety...
Pfizer says ASA ruling won’t affect wider supplement marketing
Pfizer Consumer Healthcare says the marketing slap it received this week from the UK advertising watchdog for its Centrum multivitamins range, won’t provoke a mass revision across its food supplements range.
Special edition: Antioxidants and Carotenoids
Pterostilbene and ergothioneine: A rich man-poor man story of antioxidant marketing
With antioxidants that are relatively new to the market, strong scientific evidence backing benefits and modes of action is crucial to constructing a coherent ingredient story, experts say. The tale of two antioxidants, ergothioneine and pterostilbene,...
Vitamin E anti-cancer mechanism mooted by researchers
The supposed anti-cancer effects of vitamin E have been long suggested. Now researchers believe they may have identified a key mechanism behind these properties.
Prof Blumberg: We need reference intakes for phytochemicals (and we’re not calling them antioxidants)
Establishing some kind of intake recommendations for polyphenols and carotenoids will spur innovation and allow for rational synergies of phytochemicals with specific health outcomes, says Prof Jeffrey Blumberg from Tufts University.
Special edition: Antioxidants and Carotenoids
Easy being green? Tea leads botanical antioxidant charge
Plants are antioxidant-generating machines and, commercially, the biggest return-generating plant extract is green tea. By quite some way if you speak to the biggest suppliers.
FAO protein measurement method would be beneficial to all – Fonterra, Arla
The United Nations (UN)-recommended new protein measurement system would be beneficial to the developed, as well as the developing, world, dairy industry giants Fonterra and Arla Foods have claimed – rebuffing earlier suggestions by the European soy...
EU working group to discuss probiotic as a ‘general descriptor’
Hopes are rising that the use of the term ‘probiotic’ will not have to disappear on products following the failure of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to give approval for a generic health claim for the ingredient last year.
Special edition: Antioxidants and carotenoids
Astaxanthin: Still red hot or cooling off? The Dr Oz effect… two years on
Rewind two years, and astaxanthin was the hottest nutraceutical in town, with sales “skyrocketing” following a slot on Dr Oz in which Dr Joseph Mercola described the potent red antioxidant as the “number one supplement you’ve never heard of that you...