News, Analysis & Insights on Nutrition, Supplements, and Health
Consumer preferences are currently moving towards easily prepared food, less severely processed (vitamins and nutrients preserved), natural (without preservatives and other artificial additives), healthy (functional food, low fat, less salt), and more...
A team of US researchers have discovered the cause and a potential treatment for celiac disease, the inability to digest gluten, a major protein in wheat, rye and barley products.
Although diet is implicated in scores of illnesses and healthcare concerns, a new study finds that just one in four American women initiate conversations with their doctors about nutrition. And 53 per cent of those who visited a doctor in the past...
US marketer of private label vitamins saw sales drop in its 2003 first quarter, due to the sale of two brands in July this year. However gross profit and operating income was up on the same period last year.
Vestrio, a subsidiary of wholefoods marketer Whole Living, is to launch in fifty new countries, the company announced this week.
A recent study in US schools shows that students' milk consumption and nutrition status can be significantly improved by increasing the range of flavours on offer and the quality of milk provided in schools.
Archer Daniels Midland became the first US company on Thursday to sign contracts with Cuban food importer Alimport as an unprecedented US agricultural trade show got under way in Havana.
Chinese nutritionists have fortified soy sauce with iron in order to reduce the nation's anaemia levels caused by deficiency of the mineral.