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The market for functional drinks encompasses a wide range of products. These drinks are seen by the consumer as an ideal format for delivering a health boost, and what was once seen as a niche market is becoming mainstream. Judy Davis takes a look...

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Dietary fibre — one of America's original blockbuster nutrition ingredients, first publicised in the 1980s for aiding regularity and the prevention of colon cancer — appears to have quietly shaken its "ho-hum" status, moving back into the...

Can a product be both functional and organic? In the first of a two-part special, Lynette Thwaites reports on US products which can legitimately claim to be amongst the pioneer organic functional foods and considers the marketing implications. ...

Feverfew is a popular herb, due largely to its use in an as yet unsolved mystery: migraines. Unlike its pharmaceutical counterparts, feverfew has demonstrated efficacy in the prevention of migraines. But how it works is still not known, although...

Dietary fibre in functional food products is not just a passing fashion. Mike Croghan explains the role of resistant starch in a healthy diet and reports on recent trials testing a new concept in 'fibre-full' white bread. Today's abundance of p...

While nutraceuticals is a term that is still regarded as new in the Western world, as well as in China, the concept of pharmaceutical functionality of food has been part of Chinese culture for several centuries. In this column, Peter Peverelli re...

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Since well before its introduction to western consumers in the sixteenth century, cocoa and its most popular derivative chocolate have long been used as therapeutic and medicinal remedies. Whether it was Aztec shamans using cocoa as a divine poti...