Complex Beverage LLC launched a beverage fortified with the lettuce extract ingredient praised by some health professionals as the latest initiative providing extensive nutritional and healthy benefits to consumers.
Functional beverages has been a growing segment, even in the midst of an economic downturn, but manufacturers are realizing that consumers -- and regulators -- are looking ever more closely at their ingredients, attributes and claims.
Increasing the number of cups of coffee consumed daily could lower the risk of developing the most common form of skin cancer, a new study has claimed.
I’ve been involved professionally in food and nutrition for most of my adult life. Recent reports that obesity and type 2 diabetes rates are rising—relentlessly—is not news to me. Nor is it news to anyone who can read.
Beverages may have borne some of the recent brunt of obesity concerns, but alternative sweeteners allow consumers to manage their weight while enjoying something similar to their favorite drinks. Some emerging drinks are taking a proactive approach to health and wellness.
U.S. children drink less milk and more sugar-sweetened beverages as they get older, but such unhealthy drinks do not actually replace milk in kids' diets, researchers have found.
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