Foods, Nutrients and Food Ingredients with Authorised EU Health Claims
Volume 2
Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition Series

The second volume of Foods, nutrients and food ingredients with authorised EU health claims continues from Volume 1, which provided a comprehensive overview of many of the permitted health claims for foods and nutrients approved under European Regulation EC 1924/2006. This new volume discusses more of the health claims authorised to date for use in the EU. The chapters cover details of various permitted claims, such as the approved wording, conditions of use, the target group for the claims, the evidence for the claimed health benefits, and where appropriate details of other relevant legislation, consumer-related issues and future trends.

The book opens with an overview of regulatory developments relating to health claims. Part One reviews authorised disease risk reduction claims and proprietary claims. The second part investigates ingredients with permitted ?general function? claims, with chapters examining ingredients such as red yeast rice, glucomannan and guar gum. The final section of the book explores foods and nutrients with permitted health claims, including chapters on authorised EU health claims for prunes, foods with low or reduced sodium or saturated fatty acids, and claims for essential and long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.

1. Regulatory developments with European health claims

Part One: Authorised disease risk reduction claims and proprietary claims 2. Authorised EU health claims for phytosterols 3. Authorised EU health claim for slowly digestible starch 4. Authorised EU health claim for cocoa flavanols

Part Two: Ingredients with permitted ‘general function’ claims 5. Authorised EU health claim for oat and barley fibre 6. Authorised EU health claims for wheat fibre 7. Authorised EU Health Claims for Rye fibre 8. Authorised EU health claim for Red Yeast Rice 9. Authorised EU Health Claims for Pectins 10. Authorised EU health claims for Glucomannan, Guar gum and Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose 11. Authorised EU health claim for fructose

Part Three: Foods and nutrients with permitted health claims 12. Authorised EU health claims for essential fatty acids (ALA, Linoleic acid) 13. Authorised EU Health Claims for DHA and EPA 14. Authorised EU Health Claim for foods with a low or reduced content of saturated fatty acids 15. Authorised EU health claim for foods with a low or reduced content of sodium 16. Authorised EU health claim for dried plums of prune cultivars (Prunus domestica L)

R&D managers and technical managers in the food and beverage industry, product development managers, health professionals and academics with a research interest in the area.

• Building on volume 1, this title ensures that the area of EU health claims in food is comprehensively covered
• Chapters are devoted to individual food ingredients and substances, covering the range of issues related to health claims
• Health-promoting products are an increasing consumer trend in product development and this book provides key information on these advances