FoodEurope Issue 4 2016
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ingredients<br />
Latest developments from<br />
DuPont Nutrition and Health<br />
Providing enough healthy food for people everywhere is a challenge. The mission of the DuPont<br />
Nutrition & Health business is to provide solutions that increase food production while lowering<br />
costs and promoting good health by lessening lifestyle diseases. DuPont Nutrition & Health is a<br />
premier specialty food ingredient and food safety leader. Combining our knowledge and expertise<br />
with a broad, relevant portfolio of products, services and solutions, the business delivers<br />
unparalleled food and nutrition science to customers around the world. Below are some of our<br />
latest innovations.<br />
The probiotic and<br />
synbiotic treatment<br />
groups both<br />
demonstrated reduced<br />
energy intake during<br />
the trial and reduced<br />
waist circumference<br />
Testing probiotics and fibre for<br />
control of body fat mass in<br />
overweight adults<br />
A new study published in<br />
EBioMedicine found that<br />
Bifidobacterium animalis ssp. lactis<br />
420 alone or in combination with<br />
the prebiotic fiber Litesse ® Ultra<br />
polydextrose reduced body fat<br />
mass, trunk fat mass, waist<br />
circumference and energy intake<br />
compared to placebo in those<br />
participants who adhered to the<br />
study protocol over the six-month<br />
intervention. The study, titled<br />
‘Probiotic alone and in combination<br />
with a fiber controls body fat mass<br />
associated with serum zonulin in<br />
overweight and obese adults –<br />
randomised controlled trial’, was<br />
conducted in a population of 225<br />
healthy adults.<br />
The double-blind, randomised,<br />
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