Foods and ingredients to counter aging grow in interest. Certain vitamins and minerals, amino acids and an array of antioxidants, from Superfruits to green tea and carotenoids, are being used in such products.
Using ingredients to enhance a product's health appeal requires careful consideration, noted speakers at the 2005 Prepared Foods R&D Applications Seminars event. Here is a look at pre-blends, CoQ10 and whey proteins.
It is not hard to find antioxidant compounds. Indeed, they are ubiquitous in plant and animal tissue since living organisms must fight to control the oxygenation process. Today, complex fruit extracts to "simple"? molecules such as coenzyme Q10 (ubiquinone or CoQ10) find popularity in foods and supplements based, in part, on their ability to function as antioxidants.