Q2: Sales up, profits down at DSM Nutritional Products
The food and nutrition ingredients division of Dutch giant DSM has seen sales rise 16% to €1.247bn (US$1.37bn) in Q2 but profits slipped 6% amid ongoing pricing challenges on some vitamins.
Archives for August 3, 2015
The Hacker’s Diet: Should we be looking at nutrition like a computer nerd?
The age of Silicon Valley and Digi-everything has seen the dawn of a new diet trend: ‘Biohacking’.
Infant malnutrition and poor sanitation damages intestinal ecosystem even if diet improves: Mice data
Even moderate malnutrition in the young coupled with poor sanitation is enough to provoke environmental enteropathy (EE), a condition that debilitates the digestive system so that even if the diet improves, nutritional uptake remains compromised.
Sugar-free marzipan with added fiber: ‘It’s not all about sugar, sugar, sugar,’ says developer
Swedish ingredients firm Bayn Europe has packed dietary fibers into its marzipan sugar replacer to add a valuable health twist, its developer says.
Magnesium supplements may help blood sugar management for pre-diabetics: RCT
Magnesium chloride supplements may lower blood sugar levels and counter insulin resistance, says a new study from Mexico.