Who Are Cornelius?
The company was founded in 1935 by Dr Ernst Gustav Cornelius.
Cornelius are a top 5 UK distributor serving the Food and Nutrition Personal Care, Household, Pharmaceutical and Animal Health sectors.
We integrate international sourcing, marketing, distribution and technical support of highly specialised products from high quality manufacturers around the world. Cornelius also has an applications lab which aims to develop innovative ideas for our customers while providing technical information to those who need it.
Our aim is to offer unrivalled expertise service and innovation. |
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New Products On The Market
The added fibre trend
Healthy functional foods and drinks are now becoming more focused on kids. Tesco has its own kids range including yoghurt's, dried fruit, flavoured semi skimmed milk, cereal and many more. Tesco are not the only company to aim products at kids.
Innocent has launched a range of smoothies aimed at children. Each one litre carton contains seven fibre packed portions of fruit.
This Trend comes at a time when Jamie Oliver is campaigning for healthy meals and snacks in schools.
New food regulations are being introduced to encourage
fruit juice manufacturers to offer fortified versions of their drinks,
with added vitamins and minerals. Tropicana already offers a
Pure Premium range, which includes juices enriched with fibre,
calcium and multivitamins.
| | Pomegranates are big news at the moment. These Antioxidant-rich fruits are now used in a variety of products from Gordon Ramsay's risottos to the popular juice drinks we see on supermarket shelves.
Danone have a new yoghurt out. Shape ’Lasting Satisfaction’ is a delicious, fat-free yoghurt range specially developed by Danone which has a unique blend of Effective fibres and Proteins (EFP™) which can help you feel satisfied for longer, lessening the desire to snack.
Each serving contains over 2g of fibres and about 7.9g of proteins which are both known to increase the feeling of being full. It also contains delicious pieces of fruit which help provide lasting satisfaction.
FloraGLO® Lutein trend
Leading multivitamin brand Centrum has now added FloraGLO® Lutein to its formulation.
Other products carrying the FloraGLO lutein logo include Lidl with their 27 Vitamins, Minerals and Lutein and Bausch and Lomb with Ocuvite Lutein which plays a vital role in ocular health.
Other VMS brands are sure to follow this lead.
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Cornelius Can help
We at Cornelius can supply a soluble fibre from Taiyo which is an ideal product to add to a yoghurt or beverage. Unusally for a soluble fibre, it offers excellent acid stability. More information on this product can be found in news from Cornelius.
FloraGLO® Lutein is also a product that Cornelius can provide. |
Cornelius Lab Innovations
One of our suppliers, Engelhard, have a pearlescent pigment called Ultradescence, which could be used in food. This pearl gives beautiful effects to confectionery and would be ideal for a Christmas, Easter and Halloween themed products.
Ultradescence is titanium dioxide with an average particle size of 6 microns. It exhibits very intense interference colours.
The following are available: Ultradescence Gold, Red, Violet, Blue, Green.
Particle Diagram (Ultradescence Red)
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Coated clear boiled sweet with Ultradescence Red
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News From Cornelius
Cornelius Health & Nutrition now represents Taiyo Kagaku, the Japanese pharmaceutical / nutrition company, whose focus is on the development of innovative food ingredients.
The following products in the Taiyo range could be used to add functionality to supplements, foods and beverages.
Sunfiber
A tasteless and colourless soluble fibre prebiotic from guar beans. Sunfiber's high stability in acidic conditions makes prebiotic applications in products such as drinks viable. Up until now there has not been a soluble fibre which is truly stable at the acidity typical of a soft drink or juice.
SunActive Range
Uses NDS (Nutrition Delivery System) to provide fortification with iron, zinc, magnesium and omega 3, with enhanced stability, superior absorption and bioavailability.
Sunphenon Range
Obtained from the leaf of green tea (Camellia Sinensis) the range is a series of highly purified Green Tea extracts, rich in natural catechins that have been shown to have numerous biochemical and physiological benefits including antioxidant behaviour, antimicrobial activity and weight control activities.
Matcha
A Japanese Green Tea Leaf powder with a fresh taste and vivid green colour. | |
Legislation
Phytosterols and novel food approval
Many of us are aware of the legislation on Novel Food, which is defined as "A food ingredient that does not have a significant history of human consumption within the EU before May 1997".
Phytosterols are classified as novel ingredients and are subject to a premarket safety evaluation and authorisation in accordance with the Novel Food regulation (EC) 258/97. However, this only applies to the use of phytosterols in a food or food application, not in the use of capsules.
It has been confirmed that there is significant history of consumption in the EU prior to the 15th May 1997 for phytosterol capsules sold as food supplements and the UK is content that phytosterols marketed in this form fall outside the scope of regulation (EC) 258/97. This is good news for manufactures wanting to use phytosterols in a food supplement.
Cornelius Can Help.
We are able to offer Cholevel, a non-GMO, IP phytosterol from Fenchem.
Are Your Health Claims At Risk?
Do you know about the proposed Nutrition and Health Claims Regulations which are due to come into force in the short term.
It is aimed at preventing misleading claims and could impact on many products currently on the market. There will be several routes by which claims will be allowed on foods including-
The Community List
This is a generic list of health claims which is under development. Claims on this list will be available for use by any company whose products meet the conditions for any specific claim.
Cornelius Health & Nutrition are working with the HFMA (Health Food Manufactures Association) to apply for generic health claims for certain nutritional ingredients.
Trials and Studies
The beauty from within
A new study completed by Dr. Pierfrancesco Morganti, Professor of Applied Cosmetic Dermatology at the University of Naples, indicated that purified free lutein and the associated molecule zeaxanthin, when taken daily as a 10 mg oral lutein supplement, increased skin hydration by 38 percent, skin elasticity by 8 percent and the level of superficial lipids present in the skin by 33 percent after adjustments for placebo. The study used 120 patients in a double-blind placebo-controlled environment. Results also showed that lutein decreased oxidation of those beneficial lipids by 55 percent after adjustment for placebo.
If you require more information then please contact us on the address at the end of this letter.
Abstract now available.
FloraGLO® Lutein is the world's leading patented, purified Lutein. Products with FloraGLO® lutein contain the same lutein naturally found in dark green leafy vegetables as well as eggs. Studies indicate daily Lutein intake of 6 mg to 10 mg may be beneficial.
Cornelius Column The Yoghurt Boom!
Like Heart disease, obesity is fast becoming a major problem for the NHS so the government are pulling out all the stops to try to tackle this problem. The message to us is to eat more healthily and do more exercise. Naturally, food manufacturers are looking for ways and means to help consumers by including functional ingredients in their products.
The dairy industry is no exception to this trend. Dairy aisles of supermarkets are now filled with yoghurt's and yoghurt drinks which claim to help us maintain a healthy body. The main categories include cholesterol lowering and probiotic.
Over the last few years there has been a significant rise in yoghurt sales. Yoghurt's are now accepted as a way of delivering the major consumer needs of health and convenience. Functionality has flooded the market due to competition between leading manufacturers and also as a result of the government's increased awareness of healthy eating and life style.
Flora Pro.Active s a main player using plant sterols designed especially for use within a healthy diet to help maintain a healthy heart by way of lowering cholesterol. Benecol also uses the unique ingredient plant stanol ester proven to reduced LDL (bad) cholesterol by up to 14% as part of a healthy diet and life style. |
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Muller and Danone seem to be making the leading probiotic yoghurt drinks. At present Danone's probiotic Actimel brand is doubling in size as consumer awareness grows. Muller and Danone are reported to account for almost 50% of the yoghurt and yoghurt drink market.
Food Navigator reports that sales of yoghurt in the UK are set to increase by 40% over the next five years, going over the £2bn mark by 2011.
It is predicted that more functional ingredients will start to enter the dairy market and increase sales further. Innovation for this type of NPD is important and will lead the way for new types of functional yoghurt-based products for the consumers health needs. |
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Cornelius can help.
We are able to offer the following ingredients to add functionality to your dairy NPD.
- Phytosterols
- Low taste iron, zinc and magnesium
- Low taste omega 3
- Acid stable fibre
- Plant extracts including green tea
- Vitamin premixes
- Edible Glitters
Christmas Crossword
Win a bottle of bubbly!
To enter, send a copy of the completed crossword, by the 1st January 2007 with your name and address details to ;
Laura.thompson@cornelius.co.uk
Laura Thompson,
Cornelius House, Woodside, Dunmow Road, Bishops Stortford, Herts. CM23 5RG.
The winner will be drawn at random from all correct entries on the 05th January 2007.
No Cash alternative to the prize will be offered.
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Laura's Christmas Recipe
We all know that Christmas is a time of excessive eating and drinking. Did you know that 5 grams a day of probiotic fibre can significantly improve your digestive health.
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This newsletter is brought to you by the Cornelius Group Technical Centre.
Compiled and created by Laura Thompson - laura.thompson@cornelius.co.uk.
www.cornelius.co.uk
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