Archives for October 22, 2009

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Costa Rican omega-3 milk irons out UHT problems

By Shane Starling

Austrian-based microencapsulation specialist, GAT Food Essentials, is supplying latin America’s largest dairy with an omega-3 form that is allowing the dairy to offer a difficult to achieve, non-chilled milk containing both iron and the healthy lipid.

Special edition: Healthy chocolate

Regulation: the rules governing healthy chocolate

By Shane Starling

In the final part of our series on healthy chocolate, NutraIngredients scans the regulatory landscape to see how the movement towards healthy cocoa offerings is being affected by the rules in some of the lands they are proliferating in.

Phytochemical index measure may aid obesity battle

By Jane Byrne

A phytochemical index (PI) that ranks the number of calories consumed from plant-based foods compared with overall daily calorie intake could be a useful tool to optimise dietary intake for disease prevention, says a new US study.