Calcium Propionate - Health Food?

While a few positive stories on organic farming appeared in the 1970s most mainstream press coverage mocked or dismissed organic farmers and consumers. Nevertheless, the growing army of consumer shoppers at health food stores in the United States made the movement impossible to ignore. The Washington Post and other newspapers shifted from negative caricatures of organic farming to a supportive position, particularly after the USDA launched an organic certification scheme in the United States under the leadership of Robert Bergland. Certification schemes in Europe and other major markets followed, leading to initiatives by the United Nations for the harmonization of organic certification through multilateral agencies. As organic standards proliferated in the 1990s the United Nations stepped in to resolve the regulatory fragmentation creating a global market for organic goods.

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Open Innovation and Business Model of Health Food Industry in Asia

Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity ◽

10.3390/joitmc7030174 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 174

Author(s):

Nathapornpan Piyaareekul Uttama

Keyword(s):

Food Consumption ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Market Development ◽

Health And Wellness ◽

Health Food ◽

Health Trends ◽

Panel Quantile Regression ◽

Food Market

Health trends and digital technologies are of great significance for the health and wellness food market and its development in the future. This study examines whether health trends, digital technology, and market concentration influence health and wellness food consumption in the Asian market. Our analysis uses a panel dataset covering 14 Asian economies from the period 2006–2020 and a panel quantile regression technique with non-additive fixed effects. The results reveal that health trends and digital technology have positive and significant impacts on health and wellness food consumption, whereas the concentration of distribution channels has a negative and significant impact. These results also offer insights into each type of health and wellness food consumption, thereby contributing to the health and wellness food market development. Finally, this study suggests the health and wellness food business development through a consumer-driven open innovation strategy.

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Developing Lactic Acid Bacteria as an Oral Healthy Food

Life ◽

10.3390/life11040268 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 268

Author(s):

Wei-Kuang Lai ◽

Ying-Chen Lu ◽

Chun-Ren Hsieh ◽

Chien-Kei Wei ◽

Yi-Hong Tsai ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Lactic Acid ◽

Lactic Acid Bacteria ◽

Inhibitory Effect ◽

Periodontal Pathogen ◽

Periodontal Pathogens ◽

Health Food ◽

Pocket Depth ◽

Oral Tablet ◽

Strong Inhibitory Effect ◽

Oral Pathogens

Lactic acid bacteria have functions in immunoregulation, antagonism, and pathogen inhibition. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in countering oral pathogens and develop related products. After a series of assays to 450 LAB strains, 8 heat-inactivated strains showed a strong inhibitory effect on a caries pathogen, Streptococcus mutans, and 308 heat-inactivated LAB strains showed a strong inhibitory effect on a periodontal pathogen, Porphyromonas gingivalis. The key reasons for inhibiting oral pathogens were bacteriocins produced by LAB and the coaggregation effect of the inactivated cells. We selected Lacticaseibacillus (Lb) paracasei 111 and Lb.paracasei 141, which had the strongest inhibitory effects on the above pathogens, was the main oral health food source. The optimal cultural conditions of Lb. paracasei 111 and Lb. paracasei 141 were studied. An oral tablet with a shelf life of 446 days made of the above strains was developed. A 40 volunteers’ clinical study (CSMUH IRB number: CS05065) was conducted with this tablet in the Periodontological Department of the Stomatology Research Center, Affiliated Hospital of Chung Shan Medical University (Taiwan). After 8 weeks of testing, 95% and 78.9% of patients showed an effect on reducing periodontal pathogens and improving probing pocket depth, respectively, in the oral tablet group.

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Recent Developments in Inonotus obliquus (Chaga mushroom) Polysaccharides: Isolation, Structural Characteristics, Biological Activities and Application

Polymers ◽

10.3390/polym13091441 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 1441

Author(s):

Yangpeng Lu ◽

Yanan Jia ◽

Zihan Xue ◽

Nannan Li ◽

Junyu Liu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Biological Activities ◽

Structural Characteristics ◽

Potential Candidate ◽

Health Food ◽

Inonotus Obliquus ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Inonotus Obliquus Polysaccharide ◽

Future Work

Inonotus obliquus (Chaga mushroom) is a kind of medicine and health food widely used by folk in China, Russia, Korea, and some occidental countries. Among the extracts from Inonotus obliquus, Inonotus obliquus polysaccharide (IOPS) is supposed to be one of the major bioactive components in Inonotus obliquus, which possesses antitumor, antioxidant, anti-virus, hypoglycemic, and hypolipidemic activities. In this review, the current advancements on extraction, purification, structural characteristics, and biological activities of IOPS were summarized. This review can provide significant insight into the IOPS bioactivities as their in vitro and in vivo data were summarized, and some possible mechanisms were listed. Furthermore, applications of IOPS were reviewed and discussed; IOPS might be a potential candidate for the treatment of cancers and type 2 diabetes. Besides, new perspectives for the future work of IOPS were also proposed.

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Health Information Provided by Retail Health Food Outlets

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology ◽

10.1155/2000/878212 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 14 (9) ◽

pp. 767-771 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Jaclyn Calder ◽

Robert Issenman ◽

Ruth Cawdron

Keyword(s):

Information Sources ◽

Nutritional Supplements ◽

The Internet ◽

Local Health ◽

Research Assistant ◽

Health Food ◽

Herbal Supplements ◽

Alternative Health ◽

Food Stores ◽

Source Of Information

Alternative health practices have become increasingly popular in recent years. Many patients visit specific complementary practitioners, while others attempt to educate themselves, trusting advice from employees at local health food stores or the Internet. Thirty-two retail health food stores were surveyed on the nature of the information provided by their staff. A research assistant visited the stores and presented as the mother of a child in whom Crohn’s disease had been diagnosed. Seventy-two per cent (23 of 32) of store employees offered advice, such as to take nutritional and herbal supplements. Of the 23 stores where recommendations were made, 15 (65%) based their recommendation on a source of information. Fourteen of the 15 stores using information sources used the same reference book. This had a significant impact on the recommendations; the use of nutritional supplements was favoured. In conclusion, retail health food stores are not as inconsistent as hypothesized, although there are many variances in the types of supplements recommended for the same chronic disease.

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Health, Food and Population in India

International Affairs ◽

10.2307/3018991 ◽

1945 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 40-52

Author(s):

A. V. Hill

Keyword(s):

Health Food

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Prolonged Maternal and Child Health, Food and Nutrition Problems after the Kumamoto Earthquake: Semantic Network Analysis of Interviews with Dietitians

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18052309 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

pp. 2309

Author(s):

Nobuyo Tsuboyama-Kasaoka ◽

Mari Hamada ◽

Kae Ohnishi ◽

Sakiko Ueda ◽

Yukako Ito ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Health Food ◽

Surrounding Area ◽

Kumamoto Earthquake ◽

Food And Nutrition ◽

Mothers And Children ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

And Child Health

Infants need sufficient nutrients even during disasters. Only qualitative descriptive analysis has been reported regarding nutritional problems of mothers and children after the Kumamoto earthquake, and non-subjective analysis is required. This study examined issues concerning maternal and child health, food and nutrition after the Kumamoto earthquake using automatic computer quantitative analysis from focus group interviews (FGIs). Study participants (n = 13) consisted of dietitians in charge of nutrition assistance of infants in affected areas. The content of the interviews was converted into text, nouns were extracted, and co-occurrence network diagram analysis was performed. In the severely damaged area, there were hygienic problems not only in the acute phase but also in the mid-to-long-term phase. “Allergy” was extracted in the surrounding area in the acute and the mid-to-long-term phase, but not in the severely damaged area as the acute phase issue. In the surrounding area, problems have shifted to health and the quality of diet in the mid-to-long-term phase. This objective analysis suggested that dietary problems for mothers and children after disaster occurred also in the mid-to-long-term phase. It will be necessary to combine the overall trends obtained in this study with the results of qualitative descriptive analysis.

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