gut health
10 Sep 2024
--- Consumers aged 18 to 34 in Europe and the US are particularly likely to be influenced to purchase food and beverage (F&B) products if they make a health benefit claim. The most influential labels are...
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10 Sep 2024
--- Lubrizol Life Science unveils a prototype formulation with the company’s Magshape microencapsulated magnesium ingredient in a “melt-in-your-mouth” powdered stick for on-the-go post-workout convenience. The...
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06 Sep 2024
--- This week in nutrition news, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) received a significant contribution from the Japanese government to help provide school meals to students in Sierra Leone, Africa. Meanwhile, Groupe...
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06 Sep 2024
--- Industry experts predict that consumer interest in natural ingredients is here to stay. Lycored, Pharmactive, CarobWay and Ayana Bio tell us that a growing understanding of ingredients’ efficacy and their impact on the...
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05 Sep 2024
--- Increased consumption of cruciferous vegetables lowers blood pressure better than root and squash vegetables, according to a crossover trial. After two weeks of consuming around 300 g daily of these vegetables (e.g.,...
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05 Sep 2024
--- The immune system is a complex system essential to the human body’s ability to fight diseases and pathogens and recover from illness. Maintaining immune health requires a variety of nutrients that may be difficult to...
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02 Sep 2024
--- In August’s major health and nutrition industry news, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published guidelines on the regulation and use of dietary supplements and we looked at the recent controversies, safety...
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02 Sep 2024
--- Dr. Michael Murray, a scientific adviser at the e-commerce platform iHerb, has launched a new organic supplement with TriNutra’s ThymoQuin in a brand partnership. ThymoQuin is the company’s patent-protected and...
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30 Aug 2024
--- This week in nutrition news, PLT Health Solutions received an updated license for AprèsFlex from Health Canada’s Natural and Non-Prescription Health Products Directorate (NNHPD), the Council for Responsible...
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29 Aug 2024
--- In search of a suitable antibacterial treatment against periodontal disease, especially for young children and older adults, a research team at Osaka Metropolitan University’s Graduate School of Human Life and Ecology,...
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29 Aug 2024
--- Consumer demand for innovative infant probiotics that provide science-backed health benefits is increasing. At the same time, customers and consumers alike are looking for safety-insured ingredients that can address multiple...
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29 Aug 2024
--- More than half of adults worldwide expect to be seriously harmed by their water within the next two years, according to a recent survey. We catch up with two of the authors of a new study led by international health experts...
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27 Aug 2024
--- Biotech companies Pendulum Therapeutics and BiomeSense are conducting a 14-week exploratory study of a pivotal bacterial strain called Akkermansia muciniphila residing in the gut microbiome using new data generation...
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27 Aug 2024
--- Shanghai, China-based yeast manufacturer Angel Yeast opens a new probiotics R&D facility Xizang Angel Zhufeng Biotechnology. The probiotic products it will produce have application in food, healthcare and agriculture,...
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26 Aug 2024
--- Synbiotics, especially the combination of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) and probiotics, have emerged as an innovation platform across all ages pioneered by infant nutrition. Novonesis is spotlighting the potential of...
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26 Aug 2024
--- A new study points to a new set of metabolic genes important for the proper function of the immune system’s T cells — a type of white blood cell called lymphocyte. The new findings linking inherited diseases of...
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23 Aug 2024
--- This week in nutrition news, the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) filed a reply brief to stop the enforcement of New York’s (US) age restriction law for certain supplements, the American Heart Association (AHA)...
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23 Aug 2024
--- Getting a daily dose of probiotics with at least one billion live “good” bacteria will keep upper respiratory infections and stress at bay. We catch up with Dr. Olaf Larsen, senior manager of science at Yakult...
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23 Aug 2024
--- There is increased scrutiny over ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) among national food safety agencies in the EU and UK due to safety concerns associated with the botanical used for several thousand years in traditional...
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22 Aug 2024
--- Dietary choices to maintain metabolic health, regulate blood glucose and optimize the gut microbiome are central to the modern diabetes prevention approach. We catch up with Beneo, Ingredion, Cargill and PharmaLinea for an...
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