CHICAGO – (Business Wire) The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) gathered in Anaheim, CA from June 6-9 to learn about innovative new food and beverage products launched around the globe. Leading market research company, Mintel, had close to 100 products on display that represented three trend categories of sweeteners, purity and functional foods. Following daily presentations, the products were used in a taste test, where attendees tasted the products and voted on their favorites.
“It’s always exciting to see the outcome of the taste tests, but with so many unique products …

 Wine making can be an enjoyable hobby. You get to make your own flavor of wines and at the same time appreciate the process of making it. Wine making can be difficult at first just like anything that you are engaged to. You just have to get the right equipments and the right ingredients before you can perfect the whole process. Patience is also needed when you want to engage yourself in wine making. The process of making wines is really long due to the fermentation of the fruit. Since …

GUANGZHOU: More than half of the beverages, tissues and women’s sanitary products on sale in the markets of Guangdong province are “substandard”, with a number of them even “dangerous to consumers’ health”, tests conducted by authorities on over 200 products showed.
The provincial administration bureau of industry and commerce conducted tests on 202 products of beverages, bottled water, tissues and sanitary products, and found that only “49 percent” of them met the government’s hygiene standard during the manufacturing process, said Xiao Yangwu, director of the bureau’s consumer’s rights protection office.
However, the …

By DEAN P. JONES, PhD
• Professor of medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and director of the Emory Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory.
Supplements that claim to help maintain healthy memory, alertness, immune function, protection from infection, healthy joints, youthful vigor, etc., offer many options for consumers to help manage their own health. They also raise questions about effectiveness and possible side effects.
Some history: The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, enacted by Congress in 1994, defined “dietary supplement” and allowed manufacturers to make claims about a product’s ability to affect the structure …

The confectionery industry is aware of the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) recent petition to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to ban artificial food dyes linked to behavior problems. CSPI’s petition asks the FDA to require a warning label on foods with artificial dyes while it consider CSPI’s previous request to ban the dyes outright. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration maintains that these food dyes are safe.
Food colors, both artificial and natural, are used in many food products, including some candies. All food colors used in …

Every day we are bombarded with information about food products that are healthy, all natural, have no artificial ingredients, no preservatives, low fat, no fat, no cholesterol, sugar free, vitamin fortified and provide 100% of your daily vitamin requirements. Are these foods as healthy as the advertising tries to make us believe they are?
Let’s look at the facts. There are more than 3000 different chemicals added to our food. The company that wants to produce the chemicals or use the chemicals in the foods they produce usually does the testing …

Sometimes you get a little more than you bargained for with your kung-pao chicken or your sugar-free pudding.
Namely: additives.
For some people, these instigate headaches, allergy-like reactions or even heart palpitations. See if these ingredients are the culprits:
Sulfites: Sulfur-based additives used mainly to prevent darkening of light-coloured vegetables and fruits, and to stop the growth of microorganisms in fermented products, such as wine. Some people have allergy-like reactions to them that can be life-threatening. Fortunately, the label is required to tell you that sulfites are present.
Aspartame: This no-calorie sweetener is associated …

The Food and Drug Administration today has seized products from a company that makes heart pills and other drugs which in the past have been found to be over-sized and carry potentially deadly overdoses of active ingredients.
Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd is accused of repeatedly failing to conform to the FDA’s Good Manufacturing Practices, which are rules designed to assure that manufactured drugs are safe. Federal marshals, under the direction of the FDA, raided three Caraco facilities in Michigan, seizing drugs and drug ingredients held there, officials said.
“The FDA is committed …

Bartenders don’t differentiate between the three kinds of mix. We simply don’t have the space and use one mix for everything. But for the home bartender; is there really a difference?
Of course, the manufacturing companies want you to believe that margarita mix is only for margaritas, collins/sour mix is only for collins/sour drinks and sweet n sour mix is for, well, everything else. The truth is, regardless of what the label reads there are really only two categories of mixer: sweet n sour and sour.
 
Whichever bottle you pick up, if …

Food ingredients Asia-China opens in Shanghai today and the foodingredients industry will be there. After the unprecedented success of the2008 show, Food Ingredients (Fi) Asia-China will once again run alongsideHealth ingredients (Hi) and Natural ingredients (Ni), as well as CPhI, P-MECand ICSE, on 23-25 June, 2009 in Shanghai, China.
Ingredients for Healthy Living
The success of the show underscores an increasing interest in health andnatural ingredients. By running all three ingredient shows simultaneouslyunder one roof, organiser United Business Media (UBM) says exhibitors willbenefit from unrivalled visitor numbers, while visitors will have access …