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Irish firm offers heat resistant probiotics for infant formula

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Irish firm offers (cheaper) heat resistant probiotics for infant formula

By Shane STARLING

Irish biotech start-up AnaBio Technologies is in advanced negotiations with major infant formula makers interested in its encapsulation technologies that can blend probiotics and minerals into heat treated products at cost-effective prices.

Nestlé pledges to speed salt reduction

Nestlé pledges to speed salt reduction

By Caroline SCOTT-THOMAS

Nestlé has said it plans to accelerate its salt reduction strategy to meet World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines on salt consumption by 2025.

How can the food industry address type 2 diabetes, prediabetes?

Special edition: Tackling diabetes. Formulating for healthy blood sugar

How can the food industry address the ticking time bomb of type 2 diabetes?

By Elaine WATSON

Given that one in three American adults is expected to develop type 2 diabetes by 2050, and poor diet and lack of exercise may be largely to blame, what can food and beverage manufacturers do to tackle this epidemic?

Gluten-free 2.0: Where is the gluten-free trend going next?

Gluten-free 2.0: Where is the gluten-free trend going next?

By Elaine WATSON

If the first generation of gluten-free products was short on flavor and nutrients; the next generation - ‘gluten-free 2.0’ - is all about taste, health and convenience, and is infiltrating every food category and channel, delegates at the Food & Nutrition...

Dietitians for Professional Integrity on corporate sponsorship at AND

60-second interview: Andy Bellatti and Elizabeth Lee, Dietitians for Professional Integrity

Dietitians for Professional Integrity: Our hope is that, with time, AND will realize partnerships with big corporate sponsors send out the wrong message

By Elaine WATSON

While the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics (AND) says members are more than capable of distinguishing facts from spin when listening to an education session from a corporate sponsor at its annual conference, many RDs worry that cozying up to brands...

ProYo high-protein frozen yogurt set for US-wide roll out

ProYo high-protein frozen yogurt set for US-wide roll out

By Mark ASTLEY

High-protein frozen yogurt ProYo looks set to be rolled out across the US next year, following an “overwhelmingly positive response from the media and brokers” in the six months since its West Coast launch.

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