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LEMON BIOFLAVONOIDS "WS"

Functional beverage Ingredient

Heart healthy flavonoids against free radicals

Introduction

Increasing consumer demand for healthful beverages, coupled with scientific

discoveries of specific ingredients that can produce specific functions, have led to the

development of different

water soluble healthy ingredients, such as:

Lemon Bioflavonoids "ws "

Olive fruits OW204

Echinacea Extract

Rosemary Extract

Grape Extract

Grapefruit Extract

Apigenin "ws"

Naringin "ws"

Japan was the first country to recognize the benefits of food for elderly people in 1980

and so the term functional food came in use and this was the beginning of many

international studies of the active ingredients in food that later on originated the term of

functional food ingredient. Since then the functional food concept has focused on a

number of conditions and diseases of great concern, in particular cardiovascular

diseases, osteoporosis, gut function, obesity, diabetes, cancers, and the physical and

mental functions.

The wellness drinks market is seen by the consumer as an ideal format for delivering a

health boost. The market of these functional drinks, fortified with beneficial ingredients,

today includes:

Sports drinks

Energy drinks

Vitamin -enriched drinks

Antioxidant drinks

Wellness drinks

Nutraceutical drinks

Near-water drinks

Herbal drinks

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