Gut/digestive health

Popular diets could create opportunity for fiber ingredients

Special edition: Weight management

Popular diets could create opportunity for fiber ingredients

By Hank Schultz

The explosion of new diet plans that demonize carbohydrates offer a unique opportunity for fiber ingredients that can be added to foods or be offered as standalone dietary ingredients.

Resident microbes can modulate inflammation and therefore, influence immune cells' reaction to tumour cells. ©iStock

Probiota Asia 2017

Probiotics and cancer: How the gut microbiome can affect cancer risk

By Cheryl Tay

The microbiota has major implications for cancer risk and provides a possible target for probiotics to play a role in treatment regimes, according to Medlab Clinical's medical research director and University of Sydney professor Luis Vitetta.

Fortified and functional products dominate health and wellness F&B sales in APAC. ©iStock

Vitafoods Asia 2017

APAC's fastest growing functional and fortified food markets revealed

By Cheryl Tay

Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia are tipped to be among the fastest growing functional food and fortified product markets in APAC to 2021, while Japan is witnessing a wave of product innovation on the back of its new Food with Function...