As Fast Food Goes Healthy, What Opportunities Await Food Companies?

Fast food chains have been jumping on the healthy food bandwagon with varying success for some time now, enhancing their menus with foods featuring lower fat, lower cholesterol, and lower sodium. Nerac Food Science Analyst Shanon Trueman explores where those opportunities lie.  

A Recipe for Successful Functional Food Development

Dr. Danik M. Martirosyan, founder of the Functional Foods Center at D&A, Inc., talks with Nerac Analysts Shanon Trueman and Coreen Reed about formulating functional foods.

Innovative Food Manufacturers Can Help Address the Obesity Epidemic in Kids

Obesity in the United States is the new buzz word. Adult Americans are fatter than ever, and so are our kids. Obesity in children can be a much more serious problem, since the long term health effects are detrimental–even dangerous–as the children grow into adults. Obese children are at much higher risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis, amongst others. Raising awareness about the dangers of obesity in kids needs to be made a priority.

Functional Foods, Patents and Health Claims

Read more about Functional Foods, Patents and Health Claims and other IP related topics in the Spring 09 issue of IP Strategist.

Ban Trans Fats? Fuggetaboutit!

There Are Better Ways To Get the Public To Change Eating Habits.

Are You Pro-biotic?

Do you eat bugs? Maybe you should. We’re talking the bacteria and yeast that are finding their way into more and more food products as probiotics.

Safety & Responsibility | Pet Food Companies Must Be More Diligent About What Goes In The Can

The chemicals melamine and cyanuric acid, which some Chinese exporters apparently add to wheat gluten to make it appear higher in protein, is being blamed for the outbreak of pet illnesses and deaths.

Chick Food | Companies are Developing More Products Geared To Women

Retail sales of women's food and beverages in 2004 were more than $4.5 billion, and sales are projected to reach $7.7 billion by 2009. Is the "chick food" market a lasting, lucrative one, or just a fad?

Nerac Analysts Present at 5th International Conference on Functional Foods for Chronic Diseases: Obesity and Related

5th International Conference on Functional Foods for Chronic Diseases: Obesity and Related Diseases Southern University, Agricultural Research & Extension Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
October 16-18, 2008   Nerac Analysts Shanon Trueman and Coreen Reed will present “Designing Functional Foods to Prevent Obesity in Children: The Role of Sensory Issues."

Shanon Trueman presents at Wellness 09 | March 25, 2009

Nerac Analyst Shanon Trueman will present a session titled, "Health/Functional Foods Within the Patent Landscape," at the Wellness 09 Conference  in Chicago, March 25, 2009 at 4:30pm.  

The presentation addresses opportunities within the intellectual property and product landscape for functional foods and health foods; specifically, opportunities for ingredients within functional foods, indications and diseases treated, and product categories, and is targeted towards R&D scientists, intellectual property experts and marketing and business development professionals.

The IP Strategist | Spring Issue 09

In this issue, Nerac analysts offer their insights on several topics of current interest where intellectual property plays a critical role. From the evaluation of IP in mergers between pharmaceutical companies to the exploitation of patent portfolios in food production, Nerac analysts delight in helping our clients navigate the narrow gap to business growth by effective exploitation of their intellectual property. Read it here.

See our previous IP Strategist Winter Issue 09.

It's Not Easy Being Green: The Future of Mass Market Organics

Childhood Obesity

Can food producers develop healthy products beyond yogurt and granola bars that kids will actually eat?

According to the World Health Organization, “An estimated 22 million children under five are estimated to be overweight worldwide.” While health and government officials continue to debate why kids are becoming dangerously obese, Nerac wanted to know about the market opportunities for Food & Beverage companies.

To investigate this important topic, we posed some questions to two Nerac Analysts, Food Chemist Coreen Reed and Microbiologist Shanon Trueman, and Liz Weiss, nationally-known dietitian and acclaimed book author.