Eight featured companies from the Belgian Health Ingredients Group.

Anti-inflammatory activities of Naticol® demonstrate benefits in ageing Author: Dr. Christelle Bonnet   Ageing may be considered as the accumulation of diverse deleterious changes in cells and tissues (skin, joints…). One of the major changes that occur during ageing is … Read More

Emsland Group offers new waxy potato starch solution     EMWAXY® is based on high amylo-pectin potatoes, containing more than 99% amylopectin, resulting in high quality end products. This natural potato variety is being cultivated through traditional, non-GMO breeding techniques. … Read More

Demand for organic ingredients surges in the wake of coronavirus pandemic   The coronavirus pandemic has led to a surge in demand for more sustainable and organic foods. Now, more than ever before, consumers want to make ethical and healthier … Read More

  Keep on moving: The power of collagen peptides   With more and more people keen to build regular physical activity into a holistic healthy lifestyle, dietary supplementation with GELITA’s Bioactive Collagen Peptides® can play a key role. Scientifically proven … Read More

Meriva®: The Indena’s turmeric phytosome® for an effective, total wellbeing Curcuma longa and the low-level inflammation challenge   Curcuma longa L. (a member of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae) is a perennial herb plant widespread in South East Asia and extensively … Read More

HMOs and asthma By Janet Fricker   Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) may provide the ‘missing link’ explaining the benefits breast feeding confers in asthma prevention, suggest Canadian researchers. The effect, postulate Meghan Azad and colleagues, from the University of Manitoba, … Read More

Research conducted by industrial gas product experts at Air Products has shown that the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) used in Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) can be reduced to as low as 20 percent while still maintaining the ability to … Read More

Bühler’s new ChocoX is as flexible as its pronunciation “Choco Cross”. The solution combines flexibility and agility in production and hygienic design, resulting in significantly lower operational costs. Its completely modular design allows for unlimited crossovers of the process line … Read More

For its ZSK Food Extruder, Coperion has developed a hybrid solution for manufacturing meat substitute products. With only a minimum of retrofitting effort, both texturized vegetable protein (TVP) and high moisture meat analogues (HMMA) can be produced on this ZSK … Read More

Diversey – the leading global hygiene and cleaning company – has applied its acknowledged expertise in the Food and Beverage (F&B) sector to provide key safety advice designed to protect against airborne transmission of Covid-19 in food production and processing … Read More

Sustainable replacements for plastic cutlery for packaging in advance of EU ban   EcoTensil, the global pioneer in sustainable paperboard utensils, announces the European launch of its plastic-free single-use cutlery for food packaging.  The popular range of folding multi-functional paper … Read More

    Always known as an innovator in the global food inspection market, last year Fortress Technology unveiled yet another food safety first – a metal detector that inspects low profile, high value foods vertically and horizontally concurrently to achieve … Read More

  There is a lot of truth to the old saying ‘seeing is believing’. There’s nothing like seeing the results with your own eyes in order to tell whether or not a trial has been successful; if a new product … Read More

  Although consumers have always wanted their packaging to be robust, leak-free and tamper-proof, the global pandemic has added a new factor to the equation. Today’s packaging also needs to be hygienic to open. Selig’s Service Director, Darren Dodd, discusses … Read More