- Doing a body good: progressive healthier formulations
in dairy.
Dairy, perhaps more than any other category, is becoming a brave new world in the food industry as far as experimentation goes. Processors have been pushing the envelope, especially with the success of Dannon's probiotic yogurt Activia, in terms of convincing consumers of the importance of functional ingredients in ......
- Dosing up on diary: consumers are beginning to look to
functional foods, including dairy products, to keep the doctor
away.
What do green tea, cranberries and yogurt have in common? At first glance, seemingly nothing but edibility. If you've been paying close attention to the steady stream of recent food studies, however, you would know they all contain health-promoting or disease-fighting ingredients that earn them the right to be called ......
- Probiotic pandemonium: the buzz about probiotics and
their health effects is becoming louder.
It seems that we are nearing the long-awaited probiotic revolution at last. After hearing for several years of an imminent probiotics proliferation in dairy products, finally probiotic cultures are making a splash, as witnessed with Dannon's new Activia product and its accompanying marketing push and consumer education campaigns. The reasons ......
- Supermarket success for soya; an increasing awareness
of soya foods by consumers, a greater interest in a healthy diet and the
trend towards meat reduction means hundreds of new products are entering
the...
The soya food sector is now one of the rapidly expanding and dynamic sectors of the European food industry. The market is being driven by a number of factors, not least product development, innovation and marketing, which is increasing consumer awareness of soya foods and their potential health benefits. Soya ......
- Functional foods and applications
explained.
Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods: Markets and Opportunities Gary Burd, Ph.D. (author) Global Pharmaceutical Reports SMi Publishing Ltd, UK (ordering@smipublishing.co.uk) Pp85, 2002, 595 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1 86206 050 9 With companies striving to carve out a value-added niche in the otherwise rather stagnant food market, functional foods has become a ......
- Probiotic proliferation.
No region of the healthy food product frontier seems to hold as much promise as probiotics. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that no sector is more heavily populated, because probiotics are primarily "good bacteria" that help keep the human organism running well. Yet despite nearly two decades ......
- Nutraceuticals!
How the latest products toe the fine line between food and drugs. Nutraceuticals are the hermaphrodites of the consumer goods industry. Half food and half drug, they dazzle, astonish, amaze and confound food companies and regulators alike. But the best circus analogy might be the high-wire act: Nutraceuticals are treading ......