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The answer to obesity is functional

We don’t need functional foods to survive, but they do provide huge health benefits, and may be instrumental in the prevention of obesity and other chronic diseases. Dr Miriam Clegg, of the Functional Food Centre, Oxford Brookes University, explains all.

Ingredients put to the test

The best food ingredients are those that can survive challenges in a reliable way. Leatherhead Food Research’s head of food innovation Wayne Morley outlines some of these challenges, their developments, what they aim to show and how business can respond to them.