Studies on the carotenoid lutein has enough scientific evidence for it to have its own established dietary reference intake (DRI), according to the latest analysis published last week in the European Journal of Nutrition.
Japanese firm Glico Nutrition has won the approval of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for its calcium derived from potato starch, which is already used in functional chewing gum in Asia.
The Netherlands is looking at whether legislation on vitamin A should be changed after a report calculated how much could be ingested from supplements.
A response published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine by four well-known nutrition researchers takes strident issue with an editorial published in the same journal that multivitamins are not useful. The authors of the first paper “ignored decades...
Despite a substantial body of science supporting the eye health of lutein, a DRI (dietary reference intakes) for lutein is still many years away, say experts.
A high intake of calcium from both food and supplements is associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality and death from heart disease in women, reports a new study.
Calcium ascorbate, magnesium ascorbate and zinc ascorbate are safe for use in food supplements, a panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has found.
A 1,000 page Dietary Reference Intake Report issued last week by
the US National Academies' Institute of Medicine has people even
more confused about what to eat and what not to eat to maintain
good health, claims Rachel Johnson,...