Manchester, UK: Ingredion Kenya is part of a public-private partnership that will provide 2.4 million malnourished school-age children with a nutritious, ready-to-drink ‘super porridge’ by 2025. Funded by the Ministry of Education via the National Council for Nomadic Education in Kenya (NACONEK), the project aims to combat hunger and malnutrition experienced by school children in the arid and semi-arid regions of Kenya and to improve school attendance and educational performance. By … [Read more...] about Launch of Ready-to-Drink, Nutritious Ambient Porridge to 50,000 School Children to Combat Malnutrition in Kenya
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Indorama Ventures achieves 100 billion PET bottles recycling milestone
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, a global sustainable chemical company, announced that it has recycled 100 billion post-consumer PET bottles since February 20111. This has diverted 2.1 million tons of waste from the environment and saved 2.9 million tons of carbon footprint from the product lifecycles2. Demonstrating its commitment to support the establishment of a circular economy for PET, in the last ten years, Indorama Ventures has spent more than $1 billion towards waste collection … [Read more...] about Indorama Ventures achieves 100 billion PET bottles recycling milestone
New Study Shows Chicory Root Fibres Selectively Increase Bifidobacteria Independent of Food Application and Matrix
A recently published studyi conducted by researchers from The Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences University of Reading (UK), in collaboration with the BENEO-Institute, demonstrates that prebiotic chicory root fibres support the selective growth of Bifidobacteria in the human gut, no matter which food application and food matrix they are used in. This is good news for producers wanting to bring the bifidogenic effect and gut health benefits of prebiotic chicory root fibre to a wide … [Read more...] about New Study Shows Chicory Root Fibres Selectively Increase Bifidobacteria Independent of Food Application and Matrix
