Arteriosclerosis is triggered by the constriction of blood vessels caused when plaque forms as a result of a high blood cholesterol level.

L-carnitine provides five different facets of nutrition for five different stages in life.

Consumers’ attitudes toward food and nutritional products have greatly changed over the last century.

From mom’s ringing endorsement to the FDA’s first food-specific health claim, oats are well established as an important component to a healthful diet. In fact, beta-glucan, the active ingredient in oat soluble fiber, has been shown to provide significant heart-health benefits, such as lower cholesterol levels and reduced hypertension.

Lactobacilli and bifidobacteria are both beneficial microflora naturally present in the intestinal tract, and studies show they promote enhanced gut function and stability, improve protection against infection and cancers, reduce blood cholesterol, enhance immune response and more.

If either of these questions is important in regard to your food emulsifier, American Ingredients Company has solutions.

A health claim petition requesting the FDA allow use of eight dietary supplement health claims associating chromium picolinate supplementation with reduced risk of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and related disease conditions has been submitted.

Green tea is well known for its health properties--such as weight control, reducing body fat and improving heart health-- and has been used for detoxifying the body and its overall good health.

An omega-3 powder has received USA FDA GRAS affirmation. Ocean Nutrition Canada’s omega-3 powder fish oil ingredient has a very high nutritional density of omega-3.

The FDA is allowing an increased number of health claims that link dietary components with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease.