Dried fruit show potential as green tea extract carriers
Fortifying dried fruit pieces like apple with green tea extracts may boost the antioxidant content of the finished product by four-fold, suggests a joint study from the US and Italy.
Archives for January 18, 2010
Why Haiti must stay on the CSR agenda
50,000 and counting. We'll probably never know exactly how many perished in the 7.0 earthquake that brought Haiti, quite literally, crashing down last Tuesday, 12th January 2010, just before 5pm. But for those who survived and who make it through the...
Vitamin Angels sends help to Haiti
Non-profit group Vitamin Angels is shipping one million multivitamin pills to help children who have been affected by the earthquake in Haiti that has killed more than 50,000 people.
Could non-nutritive sweeteners boost energy intakes?
Consuming beverages sweetened with non-nutritive sweeteners may lead to an increase in food consumption, and contribute to weight gain, says a new study from Purdue University.
AHPA: Don’t blame black cohosh for liver ‘events’
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has pointed out that a recent report from Health Canada highlighting purported black cohosh adverse events, is actually a good thing for the industry.