New Delhi, India—Taiyo Kagaku India (TKI) has won the Functional Food Ingredient Company of the Year award, according to a press release. The juried award was presented at the India Food Safety Summit & Awards, held in New Delhi. TKI manufactures soluble prebiotic fiber Sunfiber. “TKI and its Japanese parent...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Are your customers feeling frazzled? If so, have you pointed them to the fermented products section? Research shows that fermented foods may play an even larger role in health than previously thought, benefiting everything from oral health to cognitive function (2). And the word is out among consumers. The global...
Pennsylvania—Walnuts may promote a healthy gut microbiome—and, according to researchers at Penn State, that good-for-you bacteria could be what makes walnuts so heart-healthy. Researchers studied 42 overweight or obese patients between the ages of 30 and 65. Before the study began, participants were placed on an average American diet for...
Taiyo, maker of branded ingredients Sunfiber and Suntheanine, has recently published two human studies on their ingredients. One study, published in Nutrients, was performed on 44 adults. In the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, adults took either 5g of Sunfiber per day or a placebo for 12 weeks. The findings: Those...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Although high blood sugar is never good, it’s especially harmful during pregnancy. When glucose intolerance appears for the first time in pregnancy, it is called gestational diabetes mellitus. Public health officials are worried. Parallel to obesity, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) rates are rising across the globe, affecting as many as...
London, England—People who drink red wine have better gut health, according to a new study from King’s College London. A team of researchers explored the effects of beer, cider, red wine, white wine, and spirits on the gut microbiome in a group of 916 UK female twins, according to a...
Click here to listen. CBD is perhaps most well-known for its benefits to the brain. Previously we have discussed issues like sleep, mood, stress, anxiety and inflammation. These are powerful and significant all on their own. But research and experience is revealing that CBD has profound benefits throughout the...
Maastricht, Netherlands—Nutrients has published a systematic review on the effects of citrus flavonoids—specifically hesperidin and naringin, as the most abundant and active—on gut health, and found that “Evidence indicates that they are metabolized by the microbiota as well, thereby affecting their bioavailability…Studies have also shown that citrus flavanones and their...
Sydney, Australia—A fiber-rich diet may reduce risk of preeclampsia, according to a new study from researchers at several universities in Australia. A press release regarding the study notes that plant-based fiber is broken down in the gut by bacteria into factors that influence the immune system. Specifically, preeclampsia, the study...
Eating two or more servings of yogurt weekly may help to decrease the risk of developing adenomas—abnormal growths that precede the development of bowel cancer—according to researched published in Gut. However, this correlation only applies to men. A press release on the study says that researchers looked at 32,606 men...
