What is surprising is the tenacity with which processors and ingredient makers are pooling their expertise to help people get a handle on their love handles.

International Dehydrated Foods, Inc. (IDF), a global leader in IDF poultry ingredients, is continuing to bring chicken to the forefront of the industry through innovative health and wellness applications that the company will feature at SupplySide West.

Older adults commonly develop a reduced ability to digest lactose, the primary sugar found in dairy.

Observers could say one of the world’s largest dairy ingredient groups is “getting fit” -- all to help global food and beverage processors create the next generation of performance and lifestyle nutrition foods.

As people age, many experience a gradual increase in blood pressure, even though otherwise in good shape.

Women have complex nutritional needs that change over time. Perhaps for similar reasons, women tend to read food labels more than men do.

Details of a unique, infrared drying method by Vivid Harvest that preserves the vitamin and antioxidant content and capacity of fruits and vegetables was presented by Rodger Jonas, director of national sales, PL Thomas Inc., in his Prepared Foods’ R&D Application Seminar titled “Effects of Drying Methods on Vitamin C Content.”

Today’s sports nutrition formulations provide sophisticated ingredients, alone and in combination, for not only athletes and weekend warriors -- but also those engaged in the grueling competition of simply getting through the stressful marathon that is modern living.

In late 2010, the Life Sciences Research Organization (LSRO), Bethesda, Md., conducted a review of the scientific evidence on more than 35 food ingredients, dietary supplements and dietary factors to determine whether claims could be linked to the ingredients’ effects on mental energy.

Baby Boomers coping with today’s fast-paced society find it’s not uncommon to lose one’s concentration and suffer a diminishment in the ability to remember everything.