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  • O NESFIT® apresenta linha de Granolas com dois sabores

    O NESFIT® apresenta linha de Granolas com dois sabores

    Ricas em fibras e nutrientes, as novidades proporcionam alimentação equilibrada no café da manhã e lanches intermediáriosA Nestlé, empresa líder em Nutrição, Saúde e Bem-estar, amplia o portfólio NESFIT® com o lançamento de mais uma opção prática e equilibrada: a Granola Nesfit, que chega nas versões de 200g e de 700g. A novidade está disponível em dois sabores, Tradicional com…

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  • US Beverage Association Implement Strategy to Reduce Calorie Reduction by 25 Percent

    US Beverage Association Implement Strategy to Reduce Calorie Reduction by 25 Percent

    The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and America’s beverage companies have issued the first annual independent evaluation of the Balance Calories Initiative, a landmark effort to decrease beverage calories in the American diet. The Balance Calories Report on 2015 Progress lays out the ambitious work that beverage companies have undertaken to build a foundation of strategies in the marketplace that…

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  • FAO Dialogue Explores Nutritional and Environmental Virtues of Growing Lentils and Beans

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    Consumer awareness of the nutritional and dietary benefits of pulses, the edible seeds of leguminous plants and notably including lentils, chickpeas, cowpeas and many dry beans, remains inadequate and more must be done to promote their role in food systems, FAO Deputy Director-General Maria Helena Semedo said earlier this week. Progress has been made thanks to initiatives during 2016, the…

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  • Can aspartame prevent weight loss? Sugar substitute hinders enzyme, says study

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    The team have previously shown that feeding IAP to mice kept on a high-fat diet could prevent the development of metabolic syndrome and reduce symptoms in animals that already had the condition.©iStock/BigRedCurlyGuyA biological process to explain why aspartame does not promote weight loss has been proposed by US researchers, who found the sugar substitute promoted weight gain in mice. The…

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  • Europe sweetens its NPD with low sugar launches

    Europe sweetens its NPD with low sugar launches

    From soft drinks to yoghurts, snack bars to jams, the low sugar and sugar-free drive is spreading across categories in Europe. We take a look at some of the stand-out successes in new product development (NPD), picked by Mintel's market analysts. Going for 'good' sugar in Germany Senior food and drink analyst at Mintel Katya Witham specialises in the German…

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  • Ultrasound technique could produce new functional egg white proteins

    Ultrasound technique could produce new functional egg white proteins

    The findings could be useful to scale-up the process from the laboratory bench to industrial plant, say the researchers. © iStock/ParmohtCombining high-intensity ultrasound with the enzymatic treatment of egg whites could produce new ‘added-value’ egg white protein hydrolysates that are attractive to the food and nutrition industry, say researchers.The suggestions come from a new study that tested how different kinds…

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  • Nordic Sugar to Cease Fiber Products at Swedish Factory

    Nordic Sugar to Cease Fiber Products at Swedish Factory

    Nordic Sugar claims a series of challenges on the fiber market have led to its decision to stop producing Fibrex and Fipec at its Swedish Köpingebro factory where a notice and plans for closing was presented to the workforce earlier this week. In an announcement, leading European sugar producers Nordic Sugar says that after 30 “successful but challenging” years on…

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  • ICL Launch Novel Solution For High-Protein Yoghurt

    ICL Launch Novel Solution For High-Protein Yoghurt

    ICL Food Specialties is introducing a new solution for protein-enriched yoghurt. BEKAPLUS DY 2035 P is a clean-label ingredient system that enables the production of yoghurt with up to ten percent protein. It provides superior texture and stability and ensures convenient processing. High-protein yoghurt containing DY 2035 P remains creamy and indulgent assuring superior mouthfeel. BEKAPLUS DY 2035 P is…

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  • Probiotics and Alzheimer’s: Personalised nutrition tipped to become crucial area of treatment research

    Probiotics and Alzheimer’s: Personalised nutrition tipped to become crucial area of treatment research

    Modulation of gut microbiota through personalised diet or probiotic intervention will increasingly become a key focus for treating brain disorders including Alzheimer’s Disease, Chinese academics have concluded in a new review.They say a number of studies have highlighted the importance of the gut-brain axis – referring to the interplay between the gut microbiome and behaviour – for conditions such a…

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  • Cry baby: Infant tears reveal nutrient deficiencies

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    Living cells of the cornea require a constant supply of amino acids, vitamins and other nutrients and thus are a good measure of general nutritional health. ©iStockTears have been suggested as a reliable indicator of health as researchers have found the nutrient profile of this biofluid to be similar to blood, which may enhance the speed of deficiency diagnoses.Vitamin concentrations…

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