Omega-3

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Cargill (Minneapolis) has announced plans to unveil an 'industry-first' omega-3-fortified cooking oil derived from canola seed and flaxseed at the upcoming Institute of Food Technologists... (IFT) Annual Food Expo in July. According to Cargill, the oil offers consumers a good source of omega-3, while eliminating possible taste and formulation challenges involved with oils derived from omega-3 sources such as fish oil.

Grain Processing Corp. (GPC; Muscatine, IA) has partnered with flaxseed specialist Enreco Inc. (Sheboygan Falls, WI) to marry Enreco's Sterling Choice flaxseed products with GPC's own grain line. GPC products infused with Sterling Choice flaxseeds will now be able to bear the claim 'excellent source of ALA omega-3.'

General Mills has introduced Total Plus Omega-3s cereal, featuring ALA omega-3 derived from ground flax. The company says that each serving delivers 160 mg of ALA per serving, or 10% Daily Value of omega-3. According to the Flax Council of Canada (Canada is the world...s leading grower of flaxseed), more than half the fat in flax seeds is ALA, which the body converts into docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosopentaenoic acid (EPA).

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Due to increasing popularity of omega-3s, innovations are churning out to meet the special needs of every consumer. In the spirit of those innovations, DuPont (Wilmington, DE) recently announced the launch of New Harvest, a yeast source of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) that the company says is the market’s first fish-free, vegetarian EPA product.

The People’s Republic of China recently approved omega-3 fish oil and fish oil powder as Novel Food Ingredients in food and beverages for consumers of all ages, according to Ocean Nutrition Canada (ONC; Dartmouth, NS), the supplier of MEG-3 brand omega-3 EPA/DHA food and dietary supplements.

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Consumers ranked omega-3 as their number-one supplement of choice-even over multivitamins-in ConsumerLab's 2010 vitamin survey. That's good news for the omega-3 industry.

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Consumers are still buying supplements. This year, expect shoppers to continue focusing on immune health, gluten free, cognitive health, joint health, eye health, digestive health, and weight management. Below are a few ingredients the industry will be keeping its eye on.

Only three more years until the federal government's National Eye Institute (NIH; Bethesda, MD) releases the results of its landmark Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS2). The study-a multicenter, randomized, five-year trial involving 4000 participants-is expected to finish in December 2012.

In May, Datamonitor reported that growth of the nutricosmetics market may be slowing, perhaps due to the recession. Some consumers, the report said, may view beauty-from-within products as a luxury. While new beauty beverages continue to launch, other types of nutricosmetics may not fare as well, said Datamonitor, citing the failure of Danone's Essensis skin-nourishing yogurt as an example.

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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA; Parma, Italy) has suggested new levels of recommended daily consumption of omega-3’s to the European Commission (EC; Brussels).