Cornelius : Cornelius Health and Food Bites Newsletter Summer 2007

Cornelius Health and Food Bites Newsletter Summer 2007

The great british summer has arrived with rain, rain and more rain. Hopefully we can brighten up your day with an interesting read of Health and Food Bites.

New Products On The Market

Oenobiol Launches New Supplement for Sun Protection.

Laboratioire Oenobiol France are opening a new category with Oenobiol Homme 3/4 skin protection nutritional supplements for men. Oenobiol Homme Solaire Intense is based on a tomato lycopean complex that helps maintain healthy skin by protecting against UV induced damage. Nutritional skin care supplements for "beauty from within" is the brain child of Dr. Marie Bejot, President of Laborative Oenobiol.

DanActive with Immunitas™ is a new generation of drinks, developed by Danone . DanActive has a delicious fresh taste, liked by everyone in the family. Taken every day, DanActive can help strengthen your body's defences. And DanActive’s fresh and delicious taste makes it a natural ally in your body's daily effort to help strengthen you from the inside.

Attune Synergistic wellness bar.
Attune Foods have developed an all natural daily wellness bar that they claim can help balance the digestive system. Helping us enjoy an active healthy life, three flavours are available, Cool mint chocolate, Blueberry vanilla and Chocolate crisp. Each has powerful probiotics that put the body back in balance. The bars are said to have 5 times the active live cultures found in yogurt.

Mentos Pure Fresh chewing gum uses an Edible Glitter from Watsons Inc to create the flecks of blue and green colour. It also has green tea extracts purifying breath and leaving you with an intense sensation of freshness in your mouth.

Creatine and carbohydrate tablets are now available from Lucozade. Lucozade Sport has applied the latest science based performance research to produce Creatine and Carbohydrate tablets that can help improve performance.
the tablets have been designed to deliver creatine and carbohydrate simply and effectively.

Lucozade Sport has actively addressed concerns amongst sport professionals about consuming contaminated supplements. Athletes can be safe in the knowledge that all of Lucozade Sport’s High Performance Range is independently tested by an approved laboratory.

Cornelius can help

Cornelius are able to supply lycopean from Fenchem (Nutra-Red), we can also have many colours of Edible glitter available including naturally coloured
Edible glitter.

We can also supply Creapure (Creatine) from Alzchem Degussa, more info can be found on this in the Cornelius Column.

Cornelius Lab

We have been looking at Taste masking in the Group Technical Centre this month, using a product called SunFiber.
This material was the subject of the spring news letters trails and studies looking at lowing GI.

SunFiber is a water soluble dietary fibre made up of partially hydrolyzed guar gum. We looked at using sunfiber to improve the taste
of an artificial sweetener and a cough medicine, both of which produced promising results.

Artificial Sweetener (Acesulfame K)

In this test we used an apple juice as the base and had three samples: the first containing only Acesulfame K (0.05g), the second
containing 1% sunfiber and Acesulfame K at the same level and the third being a control (only apple juice).

A taste panel of 10 people were asked to score the samples according to whether they thought the sample had a strong bitter astringent taste
or a weak astringent taste. 1 being weak and 4 being strong. These results are shown below.

(Bitter Astringent taste which is associated with artificial sweeteners).

Sample 1: Acesulfame at 0.05%
Sample 2: SunFiber at 1% and Acesulfame at 0.05%
Sample 3: Control.

As the graph shows all taste panel members correctly scored that the first sample only contained acesulfame K. It can also be seen that most
panel members correctly guessed that sample 3 had a weaker bitter astringent taste when compared to the other two samples. The graph clearly
shows that more panel member thought that sample 2 had a weaker taste compared to sample 1.

Cough mixture

Many of us do not like the taste of cough mixture, this experiment was designed to see if Sunfiber could weaken the taste associated with
cough mixtures. Three samples were made up for taste 10 panellists to taste, They were each asked this question " Rank the three samples in
order of strength of cough mixture" (1 being the strongest and 3 being the weakest)

Sample 1: control
Sample 2: 0.5% Sunfiber
Sample 3: 1% Sunfiber

The graph shows that increasing the amount of sunfiber weakens the taste of cough mixture.

Cornelius can help

To find out more about Sunfiber or if you would like to receive a sample please contact your usual Cornelius representative or email me:
laura.thompson@cornelius.co.uk

News From Cornelius

Slendesta has just been launched from Kemin. Slendesta potato protein extract is a safe natural satiety ingredient for weight loss dietary supplements.
The active component, proteinase inhibitor II(P12) enhances the natural release of CCK (Cholecystokinin) CCK is a natural signalling peptide released by
the gut in response to food. This release will provide satiety and manage hunger naturally.

VISIT VALENS AT ANUGA
FOOD AND BEVERAGE TRADE FAIR IN COLOGNE 2007
13th until 17th October
Hall 4.1 C-008

Legislation

Importation of Fishery products

New regulations have been set in place for the importation of fishery products. Companies who buy fish oil products from 3rd countries
must ensure that the company they are buying from accompany their products with a model health certificate laid down in commission decisions
95/328/EC and 96/333/EC which contain attestation regarding public health aspects only.

This legislation indicates that only fish products processed in plants compliant with EU food safety regulations will be allowed to be imported.
The EC rulings on this are in EC 853/2004 and EC 1664/2006. The parts important to anyone bringing in fishery produce from outside the EC are
contained in the Veterinary Certificate required by the regulation laid down in EC1664/2006. L329,330 and 331. This can be found on the Internet
by asking Google the EC number and suffix. The regulations contain details such as hygiene requirements, traceability, transport and storage conditions.
The certificate needs to be completed before materials can pass through an EC customs check.

This legislation also applies to capsules, it seems as though if the capsules are imported as a bulk pack and do not have the correct documentation
they will be refused entry at the customs point. It is not certain if the same legislation means that packs of capsules finished for sale without the relevant
certification will be also stopped at the customs inspection.

The Fish Oils must have been processed in an accredited plant before encapsulation so it is worthwhile ensuring the correct valid certification is available before
purchasing any fish products. The main area of concern seems to be South America from where both the capsules and the raw materials have been imported
into the UK.

It was noted that Accucaps the Canadian soft gel manufacturer have the correct documentation to allow their capsules to be imported. This is as a result of their
recent inspection and certification by the EU regulatory authority. As well as this accreditation Accucaps recently passed FDA inspection processes. For more
information about Accucaps please contact us as their UK representatives.

Trials and studies

Oral Creatine Monohydrate supplement improves brain performance

Creatine has been widely used in body building and also by elite athletes to increase muscle mass and to supply the muscles with energy.

Over the years creatine has been the subject of many trials and studies relating to sporting performance. A study completed at the University of Sydney
has looked at using creatine to improve brain function and has produced some significant results.

The study followed a double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over design. Subjects were given 5g doses of supplement (Creatine monohydrate) or placebo
(Maltodextrin), subjects were asked to consume this supplement at the same time each day for six weeks.

Subjects were then asked to complete an intelligence test

Results

The results showed that supplementation with oral creatine monohydrate significantly increased intelligence compared with placebo.
These findings could open up the use of creatine in other product types which are not associated with sports nutrition.

Cornelius can help.

To see the full version of this study please contact us.

Cornelius Column: Creatine in sports nutrition an functional foods

Creatine is a nitrogenous organic acid which naturally occurs in vertebrates and helps to supply energy to muscle cells. Creatine is often taken by athletes as a supplement to improve sports performance and by body builders to increase muscle mass.

A number of methods of ingestion of creatine exist, it can be taken as a powder mixed into a drink, as a capsule or caplet. Once ingested creatine is highly bio-available, whether it is ingested as the crystalline monohydrate form, the form in solution or even in meat.

Creatine is made up of three amino acids: Arginine, glycine and methionine. Our liver has the ability to combine these three amino acids and make creatine.

Around 95-98% of the creatine in our bodies is stored in our muscles. The remaining 2-5% is stored in various other parts of the body including the
brain, heart and testes. Creatine is said to have four functions in the body. To provide additional energy for muscles, to volumize muscles by pulling water
into muscle cells, to act as a buffer for lactic acid build-up and to enhance protein synthesis.

Many studies have been completed on creatine and its safety. Few side effects exist but it can cause stomach upset, muscle cramps and dehydration. Most of which can be greatly reduced by drinking plenty of water.

The purity of creatine is another subject which consumers understandably want to be sure about. Alzchem (degussa) are the only european supplier of creatine and can guarantee that their product is completely pure and does not contain any cancer causing toxins like some Chinese creatine products have been found to contain.

Alzchems manufacturing process is the only patented process which can guarantee that carcinogenic residues are eliminated from the final product. If safety is of real concern then Creapure is the only creatine which will give you peace of mind.

It has now emerged that creatine could act as a brain food “improving brain performance”(see more in trails and studies)Creatine has now become more widely used and has been added to some cosmetic products to benefit skin health.

Many different avenues for the use of creatine in the functional food market may now open up. Could we now be encouraged to increase our creatine intake to enhance skin or brain function?