Archives for March 16, 2004

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Ascorbic acid prices erode Zila's profits

Zila, a US pharma and biotech company, has achieved double-digit sales growth for the first half of 2004, mainly due to the performance of its nutraceutical division. Operational costs exceeded sales however, due to higher cost of ascorbic acid and...

Sleep easy with green tea

The health benefits of green tea dovetail into sleep as researchers in Japan find an amino acid located in green tea could improve slumber in young men, writes Lindsey Partos.

Functional miso to rival calcium supplements

Japan's Agriculture and Livestock Industries Corporation (ALIC) has teamed up with two research bodies to develop a new functional fermented miso derived from skimmed milk, that contains three times as much calcium as regular miso, writes Lindsey Partos.