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For the 11th year, BNP Media’s Market Research Division, in conjunction with Prepared Foods magazine and NutraSolutions.com, surveyed processors of functional foods, functional beverages and dietary supplements

From smoothies to craft beer, salad dressings to savory and sweet sauces and nutritional supplements in soft chews, capsules, tablets and gels form, pomegranate, the superfruit, is steadily becoming a “super-flavor” and “super-ingredient.”

Prepared Foods and its NutraSolutions brand present this annual “Ingredients for Health” reference.

Cardiologist Elizabeth Klodas, MD, FACC, and food industry veteran Barbara Birr, have launched Step One Foods, a Minneapolis company with a namesake line of physician-formulated products for heart care.

Blue California offers Sol Q10 BLUE, a water-soluble coenzyme Q10, in 10% and 40% concentrations for energy drinks, functional beverages, chewable tablets, stick packs and other products

Functional Foods Inc., Long Beach, Calif., says its Green Fit beverages each provide as many as six essential health benefits including protein, antioxidants, fiber, green superfoods, energy and electrolytes. Varieties include Tropical Citrus, Lime Coconut, Pomegranate and Dragonfruit.

Scimera BioScience LLC introduced SciMune, a physician-formulated dietary supplement supporting healthy immune function and energy levels.

In Part One of Prepared Foods’ overview of ingredients for eye health, PF looked at the vitamins, minerals and other nutraceuticals, such as omega-3s, known to help protect eyes and vision. In this second of the two-part feature, PF explores the carotenoid compounds—perhaps the most important class of eye health ingredients known to science.

KonaRed Corporation, Kalaheo, Hawaii, introduced a new 10.5oz bottle for its line of KonaRed Original and Green Tea wellness drinks made with Hawaiian coffee fruit extract (billed on packaging as “Hawaiian Superfruit”).

The link between whole grain consumption and the reduction of chronic disease risk is well-documented.