Algatechnologies announced its AstaPure® brand has obtained GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status from the FDA for use in food and beverages applications.
Life expectancies are increasing around the world, resulting in a higher number of women reaching menopause. As they age and estrogen declines, women experience climacteric complaints and hot flashes, which may be accompanied by weight gain and skin wrinkling and, in later years, osteoporosis and atherosclerosis.
Research supports new health advantages for well-established vitamins, minerals, pre- and probiotics, and omega fatty acids. Such health conditions range from weight management and eye health to cognition and cancer risk reduction.
As marketers of conventional foods, functional foods and dietary supplements pore over data looking for new product opportunities that answer consumer needs, foods and beverages that address health issues, often specific health conditions, come to the forefront.
A new, “nutricosmetic” study has found daily oral supplementation with Lyc-O-Mato®, a natural, lycopene complex will enhance the protective properties of the skin; An ingredient for brain support, Cereboost™, from Naturex, has been granted the NutrAward 2010 for Best New Ingredient of the year.
Researchers uncover a
“digestive symbiosis” between milk oligosaccharides and Bifidobacteria .
The health benefits of other components found in milk--from CLA to whey
proteins--are being investigated and commercialized.
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