Gut health: The gateway to wellness
Gut health is becoming a concern for consumers who want to improve their body systems, with 45% of them considering it to be extremely important to the body’s health, according to a recent study by Health Focus International…
Botanical Ingredients Bring Cleaner Labels
Botanical Ingredients As a result of the global pandemic, consumers have begun to look after themselves more. And there is an increased understanding that our health begins with our nutrition. For this reason, botanical ingredients have broken through the trend barrier. They are becoming more commonplace in premium product development projects for functional food brands […]
Focus on Gut Health For Our Immune Systems Through Nutrition
Immunity remains the hot topic of the moment as we have all realised the true importance our health plays in global pandemics such as the one we currently find ourselves in. Public health and hygiene practices during Covid have been reiterating the importance of hand-washing and covering our mouths when we cough to prevent the […]
Flaxseed: nature’s best-kept multifunctional ingredient.
When we think of superfoods, we tend to think of exotic, novel-sounding ingredients as being better than the common products that are readily available such as broccoli, berries, beetroot or oats. This article will focus on one such superfood – flaxseed – which goes by the Latin name ‘Linum Usitatissimum’ and means “most useful”. I want […]
How can natural ingredients reinforce immunity?
Throughout this period of time where we are all dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic and the aftermath as we move into second waves globally, I thought it would be a good time to share my thoughts on how we can best reinforce immunity levels in general through sources such as bioactives, natural ingredients and primarily, […]