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Purple corn, a Peruvian staple packed with healthful anthocyanins, is making its way into commercially-available food products, several of which were touted at Natural Products Expo East recently. Suntava, Inc., says its non-bioengineered purple corn ingredients promise protection from cancer, obesity and inflammation. Back to the Roots developed a breakfast cereal made from U.S.-grown purple corn, organic cane sugar, and sea salt. Boston’s Late July Snacks introduced organic purple corn tortilla chips. Oregon’s Attune Foods (Post Holdings) unveiled a cereal made with lightly glazed flakes of organic purple corn and brown rice.
"Purple corn poised for superfood stardom", Food Business News, September 25, 2015
A federal government scientist, working with a company that makes wine grape flours, has determined that hamsters whose diet included flour milled from white wine grape seeds, had lower blood cholesterol, less fatty liver disease and less weight gain than hamsters fed a normal diet. Wallace Yokoyama of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) also found that leptin, known as the “satiety hormone” and usually high in obese people, decreased when the animals ate flour made from Chardonnay grape seeds. Likewise, the protein adiponectin, believed to help prevent diabetes and atherosclerosis, increased. The ARS and the maker of the flour, WholeVine Products (Sonoma, Calif.), have applied for a patent for their technology.
"Health Benefits of Wine Grape Flours", News release, USDA, September 01, 2015
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