Prebiotic ingredients stimulate the growth of beneficial bacteria. Proper nutrition is essential to maintaining a healthy status, however, Western diets often lack healthful ingredients such as fruit, fiber, and whole grains. A key to maintaining good health includes nurturing the body’s naturally occurring microorganisms for proper digestive-tract function.

Today, good scientific evidence exists to support the ability of probiotics (whether living) to increase a body's resistance to enteric pathogens, speed recovery from antibiotic-associated diarrhea, reduce hypertension, and assist with lactose digestion.

Consumed for centuries by other cultures, some exotic herbs and ingredients may qualify for GRAS status.

Functional foods and beverages are of high interest to today's health-conscious consumers.

A dietary ingredient extracted from sugar beets may become the focus of a cost-effective first step therapy for liver disease, and a potential risk reducer for cardiovascular disease.

Most Westerners do not get enough fiber in their diet, despite the fact that the benefits of fiber are well-known.

A new fat ingredient specifically designed to improve infant formulas and improve babies' energy and calcium intake.

Although discovered in 1979, the micronutrient pyrroloquinoline quinone (PPQ) has only recently been identified as the first new vitamin isolated in 55 years.

While the benefits of green tea have been well researched and are well accepted, the newest ingredient from the tea family—white tea—is less well known, but has the potential to become a blockbuster ingredient.

Yo-Fast 20, a range of yogurt cultures from Chr. Hansen, provides yogurt with very mild flavor and minimal post-acidification. Its high-texturing properties make it possible to reduce or even replace stabilizers or gelling agents.