LycoRed Ltd., Israel, is gratified by the recent announcement by The Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) affirming that lycopene from tomato extract is safe for use as a food additive. LycoRed’s Lyc-O-Mato® and Tomat-O-Red® tomato lycopene ingredients fall squarely within the parameters of the JECFA monograph. These ingredients which provide many of the tomatoes benefits are added to food both as healthy colorants and to fortify foods with the full array of antioxidant-rich carotenoids found naturally in tomato.
Zohar Nir, LycoRed’s Vice President of New Product Development and Scientific …

What ingredients make for good and bad dog food?
First of all, many of the big companies are paying really slick marketers and advertisers millions of dollars per year to advertise their dog food. The amount of money they are spending on marketing has no relationship to the quality of the dog food. This is unfortunate for you as some of the best advertised dog food is inferior.
There is one way for you to guess the quality of dog food however it is not fool proof. You can normally use the …

Every one of us living in uncertain times knows the basic components of survival in emergency. The basics are food, water, clothing and shelter. It is necessary to have all these items at hand in case of natural disaster, terrorist attack or other unexpected situation. But to get you long term food storage ready can be a very difficult task. We often put some food products aside and it gives us some sense of security. But this feeling is false because when something unexpected comes up we realize that we …

WASHINGTON — The FDA has called for routine testing for melamine contamination in certain ingredients used in the manufacture and preparation of drugs.
If consumed in sufficient amounts, the chemical — used in the industrial production of resins, cleaning products, fertilizers, and pesticides — can cause kidney failure and death.
The FDA recommended screening the pharmaceutical ingredients with methods currently used for testing food proteins. The equipment necessary is generally available to drug manufacturers and contract testing labs, the agency said.
There is “no reason to believe that the U.S. pharmaceutical supply is …

Studies show between 6 and 7 million Americans suffer from food allergies. Because of the presence of food allergens, the Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center, located on the Oklahoma State University campus, held a seminar for its faculty, staff and students to learn more about the latest food allergen issues.
The FAPC invited Dr. Stephen Taylor, director of the Food Allergy Research & Resource Program and professor with the department of food science and technology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to speak during the seminar and discuss allergens …

You have probably heard the saying ‘you are what you eat’. This is especially true with regard to living a healthy lifestyle. It isn’t actually as difficult to live a healthy way of life as you might think. Here are some tips to help you to choose the right types of food for keeping yourself fit and healthy.
Green is Good
At the top of your shopping list should be fresh fruits and green leafy vegetables. A large number of the nutrients and vitamins that a person needs for keeping their body …

Research supporting the health benefits of fish oil is overwhelming. The first study, conducted decades ago, linked the low incidence of heart disease among Greenland’s Inuits to that population’s diet of fatty marine animals and fish. More recently, study results presented at the 2009 Experimental Biology annual meeting indicate that fish oil protects against neurodegenerative diseases. In between, scientists from around the globe have linked the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil—docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)—to a range of benefits from head to toe.
Ever-emerging benefits
“Omega-3 fatty acids …

For years antimicrobials have been used by the ethanol industry to control bacteria breakouts during the process and according to Tom Slunecka, vice president of marketing for PhibroChem Ethanol Performance Group, antimicrobials – both antibiotics and chemicals – are used by many facilities and are vital for good strong economic production of ethanol.
Recently, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy released a report that called for the ethanol industry to stop using necessary antibiotics in the production process. (Read “Report: Ethanol industry moving away from antibiotic use.”)
According to Phibro, through …

High-pressure processing (HPP) technology has been developed by Australian researchers to extend shelf-life of chilled perishable products without the use of preservatives. The benefits of HPP are that it kills yeast, mould and bacteria but does not affect freshness, flavour, colour, texture or nutritional value of food, according to the Food Science Australia (FSA), a food, health and nutrition research organisation.
The technology used commercially for the first time in the Melbourne plant involves using pressures of about 6,000 times average air pressure to pasteurise the food. It could replace the …

When FDA gave the GRAS green light to stevia-based sweeteners late last year, the sweetener world felt a bit of a tremor. Now, for the first time, the industry had an approved, zero-calorie, all-natural sweetener at its disposal.
With stevia in their arsenals, product developers can now delve into a newly developed niche: low-calorie, all-natural functional foods. The body does not metabolize the sweet glycosides from the stevia leaf or any of its processed forms, so there is no caloric intake. Also, stevia doesn’t adversely affect blood glucose levels and may …