Foods, Nutrients and Food Ingredients with Authorised EU Health Claims: Volume 3

The first edition of Functional foods: Concept to product quickly established itself as an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to the functional foods area. There has been a remarkable amount of research into health-promoting foods in recent years and the market for these types of products has also developed. Thoroughly revised and updated, this major new edition contains over ten additional chapters on significant topics including omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, consumers and health claims and functional foods for obesity prevention.Part one provides an overview of key general issues including definitions of functional foods and legislation in the EU, the US and Asia. Part two focuses on functional foods and health investigating conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity and infectious diseases as well as and the impact of functional foods on cognition and bone health. Part three looks at the development of functional food products. Topics covered include maximising the functional benefits of plant foods, dietary fibre, functional dairy and soy products, probiotics and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs).With its distinguished editors and international team of expert contributors, Functional foods: Concept to product is a valuable reference tool for health professionals and scientists in the functional foods industry and to students and researchers interested in functional foods. __Foods, Nutrients and Food Ingredients with Authorized EU Health Claims, Volume Three,__ provides an overview of how health claims are regulated in the European Union, along with detailed scientific and regulatory information about permitted health claims for foods and ingredients. The latest volume in this series focuses on regulatory coverage from EC 1924/2006, including the most recently authorized claims. Topics discussed include sections on the Authorized reduction of disease risk claims, including calcium, calcium with Vitamin D, Vitamin D, Folic Acid, Limicol® and MUFA and PUFA., health claims based on emerging science, recent regulatory announcements, and finally, general function claims. The book represents the go-to resource for R&D managers and technical managers in the food and beverage and dietary supplements industry, product development managers, health professionals and academic researchers in the field. * Provides a comprehensive overview of foods and food substances that have achieved approved health claims in Europe under Regulation EC 1924/2006 * Covers properties and applications of each ingredient, as well as evidence for the health claim and how it benefits consumers * Outlines the importance of each claim in product development and marketing, and in regulatory issues, such as conditions of use 1. Regulatory developments with European health claims Part One: Authorised disease risk reduction claims and proprietary claims 2. Authorised EU health claims for phytosterols 3. Authorised EU health claim for slowly digestible starch 4. Authorised EU health claim for cocoa flavanols Part Two: Ingredients with permitted 'general function' claims 5. Authorised EU health claim for oat and barley fibre 6. Authorised EU health claims for wheat fibre 7. Authorised EU Health Claims for Rye fibre 8. Authorised EU health claim for Red Yeast Rice 9. Authorised EU Health Claims for Pectins 10. Authorised EU health claims for Glucomannan, Guar gum and Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose 11. Authorised EU health claim for fructose Part Three: Foods and nutrients with permitted health claims 12. Authorised EU health claims for essential fatty acids (ALA, Linoleic acid) 13. Authorised EU Health Claims for DHA and EPA 14. Authorised EU Health Claim for foods with a low or reduced content of saturated fatty acids 15. Authorised EU health claim for foods with a low or reduced content of sodium 16. Authorised EU health claim for dried plums of prune cultivars (Prunus domestica L)