Functional food companies are always on the lookout for the new areas of consumer demand, lifestyle trends and gaps in the market. So it's a bonus for sports nutrition firms that there are experts out there who are only too happy to tell them what...
Tetra Pak may be downplaying UK dairy processors’ potential for growth in the flavoured milk market, Andy Smith, UK and Ireland marketing manager at the firm, has claimed.
Gelatine and collagen peptides manufacturer Rousselot is promising new functional possibilities for food manufacturers that take up its newly launched Synergy Systems range of gelatine-based functional solutions.
Activ'Inside claims to have produced the only natural lemon balm extract titrated in magnesium with European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) approval that enables manufacturers to communicate a message of naturalness, tradition, history of use and safety....
Ready meal and sandwich firms are reeling after today’s publication of government front of pack (FoP) food labelling guidelines, which champion tough criteria for salt in foods.
Food manufacturers should encourage women to eat nutrient-rich diets after the British Nutrition Foundation’s (BNF) latest Task Force Report proved women’s diets before and during pregnancy can affect an infant’s health.
Naturex is launching what it claims is Europe's first clinically proven - and proanthocyanidin (PAC) standardised - organic cranberry powder to improve urinary tract health.
The key business challenges for food firms whose products aid disease management are overcoming the "huge disconnect" between the number of consumers who claim to be interested in them and the number who actually purchase them, while also making...
Food taxes introduced by some EU member states to discourage the consumption of ‘unhealthy’ foods will not tackle obesity and risks hindering the competitiveness of EU food and drink industries, warns the manufacturers’ organisation FoodDrinkEurope.
Frutarom says its new olive leaf extract, Benolea, is "clinically proven" to provide the reported cardiovascular health-support benefits of the Mediterranean diet.
DSM Nutritional Products has acquired the OatWell brand of beta-glucan ingredients from CreaNutrition, the subsidiary of Swedish Oat Fiber (SOF). SOF will produce the OatWell products at its factory in Bua, Sweden.
Pioneering nanotechnology research to enrich the iron content of potatoes could result in a range of fortified crops, according to researchers at Nottingham Trent University’s School of Science and Technology.
When three working mothers, Donna Tresadern, Kay Shearing and Nikki Da Costa-Smith, struggled to find healthy, convenient and tasty food for children they decided to create their own frozen ready meals range.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is in danger of “overkill” with its approach to Nutrition and Health Claims Regulations (NHCR), with the process fundamentally undermined by its refusal to tell food firms how it defines ‘health’.
A more 'results oriented' approach to cutting salt in people's diets is being sought by manufacturers, given the problems faced by some sectors of the industry in meeting the existing 2012 salt reduction targets
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes, said the American inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin. The words still resonate. But in Franklin's 18th Century world, death tended to come early - often quite brutally.
After high-profile scientific papers and a July Panorama documentary criticised the allegedly poor science behind claims made for a range of sports products, regulators, brands and nutrition experts have defended current research criteria.
The Department of Health (DoH) says it has no plans to change its '5 a day' scheme, despite receiving criticism on Channel Four's Dispatches programme and from the Fresh Produce Consortium.
The European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA's) working group on claims has turned down food firms' applications to make claims in relation to health benefits of microbial cultures. The question now arises: Do on-label statements of fact...
Small- and medium-sized (SME) food and drink firms will be able to raise the level of nutritional skills within their businesses, following the launch of online nutrition training courses by the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF).
Food producers insist they are doing all they can to reduce salt levels in their products after a new health scare, and that food labelling already gives consumers the information needed to make informed choices.
Consumer demand is sustaining probiotics sales, despite the blow of the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA's) health claims rejections, say some of industry's main players.
Zurich-based chocolate firm Barry Callebaut has launched a lactose-free milk chocolate. The new product is made with a skimmed milk powder with "the lowest lactose content available on the market". This enables the firm to put higher amounts...
News last month that DSM Nutritional Products (DSM) and Kemin planned to contest the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA's) rejection of their submitted claims for lutein and eye health, is but the latest twist in the tortuous saga of the...
Government proposals to ditch the legal requirement to fortify flour could leave more people deficient in calcium and iron, warns the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN).
The findings of a Leatherhead Research study could enable food manufacturers to gather supporting evidence for health claims on how cereal fibre can benefit vascular function.
I know it's not a new subject, but the European Food Safety Authority's decision, under the health claims regulations, to forbid the use of 'probiotic' labels on food, looks even more unhelpful to consumers when you ponder the implications...
