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With a high antioxidant content and functional properties, aronia berries might be the next big hero ingredient for better-for-you applications, Blake Johnson, managing partner with American Aronia Accelerator (A3), told FoodNavigator-USA.
With roughly 2 billion people overweight, nearly a billion people suffering from hunger and a third of all food produced lost or waste – the current food system is “too unbalanced, too wasteful and too vulnerable,” according to Unilever, which is why the...
Green tea may provide an effective alternative for the prevention of metabolic syndrome by regulating gut intestinal microflora in the obese, according to a recent study.
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has written to the US Food & Drug Administration urging the agency to put resources behind any dietary supplement master file framework, or rethink prioritizing a master files guidance.
A gut hormone for controlling appetite may also help maintain the health of the gut microbiome by preventing helpful fungi from turning into more problematic forms.
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The root of Ashwagandha Withania somnifera has been a staple botanical of Ayurveda for thousands of years, earning the name 'the king of herbs'. In the last decade ashwagandha has risen in popularity in the natural products industry and the general...
Communicating the importance of nutrition for muscle health to the older demographic can be challenging but it is a missed opportunity in the sport nutrition sphere.
Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration will be setting consumption limits and usage warnings on ashwagandha and seven other botanicals that are used as food ingredients.