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Athletes should be warned against drinking too much water, or other sports drinks, during exercise, writes a sports medicine expert in this week's BMJ, prompting swift reaction from sports drink maker Gatorade.
Lesaffre Yeast has added a new consumer yeast brand to its North American portfolio with the acquisition of Stranks Management and its subsidiaries.
Eating in between mealtimes is fundamentally ingrained in Europeans' eating habits, claims a new report that encourages manufacturers to concentrate on healthy snacks and meal-snack 'hybrids' to meet the needs of this rising trend.
Direct-selling firm Unicity Network has been bought out by a group of its management executives from parent company Netherlands-based Numico. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.
The carbohydrate-rich pizza could be associated with a reduced risk of cancer, suggested a newspaper report yesterday, while a recent study finds that the tomato-based food could help lower women's levels of heart disease.
Archer Daniels Midland has launched a NovaLipid zero and reduced trans-fat oils and shortenings range for use in confectionery, snack and cereal products.
Scientists in the UK said on Friday they had found evidence of a link between consumption of fat and breast cancer, a theory so far poorly supported by human trials. Their study raises questions about the methods of assessing dietary intake, showing...
Engineers at the Russian company Izobretatel in Moscow have designed and patented a new device for rapid and cost-effective analysis of the consistency of various food- and non-foodstuffs for future standardised replication.