Flavoring Agents
Flavoring agents are the largest single group of food additives. Food and beverage applications of flavors include dairy, fruit, nut, seafood, spice blends, vegetables and wine flavoring agents. They may complement, magnify, or modify the taste and aroma of the foods.
There are over 1200 different flavoring agents used in foods to create flavor or replenish flavors lost or diminished in processing, and hundreds of chemicals may be used to simulate nature flavors. Alcohols, esters, aldehydes, ketones, protein hydrolysates and MSG are examples of flavoring agents.
Natural flavoring substances are extracted …

We’ve all heard it before: the promise that you’ll lose 10 pounds in a week if you purchase this tiny little pill.
Diets, pills, and herbs, or any combination thereof, are taking the world by storm, no matter where you look.
But you should not be so naive to these promises; more than likely in fine print somewhere you’ll see the phrase, “Results not typical.”
With Spring Break quickly approaching and our on-and-off nice January weather, the thought of bikinis and minimal clothing are overwhelming. Maybe that New
Year’s diet did not pan out …

Homemade winemaker Tony Spinelli Sr. of Seymour, Connecticut, talks about a little of a winemaking issues viewers have created to him with. A must-see for do-it-yourselfers as well as those who would similar to to be!

FDA recently gave its most thorough explanation of how it interprets a provision that prohibits drugs in dietary supplements, lawyers at Hyman Phelps & McNamara say, and industry is worried that interpretation will hurt the development of supplement ingredients. The supplement measure is nearly identical to a recently added restriction on food, and the lawyers predict food ingredient development will be similarly affected.
FDA recently determined, in responding to a citizen petition filed by a pharmaceutical company, that a form of vitamin B6 is not a dietary supplement. FDA rejected pyridoxamine …

LAVAL, QC, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. (“Neptune”) (NASDAQ.NEPT – TSX.V.NTB) is pleased to announce today that the European Food Safety Association (EFSA) has approved Neptune Krill Oil (NKO(R)) as a NOVEL FOOD and PARNUTS for commercialization in the European Union.
NKO(R) has successfully passed rigorous regulatory review and scrutiny by all member states of the European Union (EU), which approved NKO(R) as a NOVEL FOOD and PARNUTS allowing its immediate commercialization at a clinically proven effective daily dose in all 27 European countries.
 
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Process-resistant, long-life probiotics gave Max Muscle Sports Nutrition a protein bar with a difference.
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For Max Muscle Sports Nutrition, a national franchiser of sports nutrition products, the answer was to launch the first probiotics-enhanced protein bar in the U.S.: Max Crunch.
“We have long known the health benefits probiotics deliver in improving digestion and enhancing immunity, but …

AarhusKarlshamn: AAK Summarised Financial Statement, 2008STOCKHOLM, SwedenAARHUSKARLSHAMN

STOCKHOLM, Sweden–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Regulatory News:
The Group CEO comments
?The Group result for 2008 ended at SEK 851 million (653). Increased volumes and margins for Chocolate and Confectionery Fats and Food Ingredients, and positive developments in the most recent acquisitions within Food Ingredients are the main contributors to this improvement,? says Group CEO Jerker Hartwall in his comments to the report.
Fourth quarter 2008
? Net sales were up 28 percent, SEK 4,764 million (3,709).
? Operating profit, was up 19 percent, SEK 212 million (178), of which insurance compensation …

Medicines are those substances, by which any disease is treated or any kind of pain (severe or the acute) is relieved. Basically, there are lots of medicines available for the treatment purpose of a single disease. But it is essential to prepare the medicine under the invigilation of a qualified chemist. Generally, lots of researches are done before creating a new medicine. Since maximum of the medicines contain a trace amount of drug, so it is essential to perform the research works carefully to determine the exact amount of drug …

 
Food technology is regarded as one of the industry sectors where nanotechnology will play an important role in the future. It is commonly distinguished between two forms of nanofood applications: food additives (nano inside) and food packaging (nano outside). Nanoscale food additives may for example be used to influence product shelf life, texture, flavour, nutrient composition or even detect food pathogens and provide functions as food quality indicators. In the context of food packaging, nanotechnologies are mainly considered to be of use to increase product shelf life, indicate spoilt ingredients …

Blueberry wine making is extremely popular in the United States and some informal surveys have it ranked second in popularity only to blackberry in preference. Using blueberries in blueberry wine making has a lot of advantages both for taste and nutrition. Blueberries are rich in vitamins A and C along with other essential nutrients. They have lesser content of elements such as citric acid. Their sugar content is not too powerful and they can be squeezed for juice to be made into wine or dried. In some cases it is …