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  • Just Like Mom Would Make
    Beech-Nut, a Latham, N.Y.-based subsidiary of Switzerland’s Hero Group, has expanded its Stage 3 jarred infant food offering with a new product line. All natural and with added vitamins and minerals, like all Beech-Nut products, Homestyle Stage 3 Fruits are specially made with more texture for a baby’s physical developmental changes from about eight months and up.

  • Finding Spring Allergy Relief in the Produce Aisle
    A study of 8,000 people ages 2 to 85 has found that folic acid — or vitamin B9 — may help reduce allergies and asthma, reports Medical News Today.

  • Spice up a Healthy Lifestyle
    It’s the little things — like a shake or two of cinnamon or oregano — say the herbs and spices experts at McCormick & Company, Inc. that can put you on the path to a healthier diet.

  • New Wave
    Ocean Spray has expanded its line of juices to include the popular pomegranate. The Lakeville-Middleboro, Mass.-based company, an international cooperative owned by more than 600 cranberry growers, is incorporating the antioxidant-rich fruit into a number of new products, and now features such varieties as Cranberry & Pomegranate, Lite Cranberry Pomegranate, Diet Cranberry Pomegranate, and a Ruby Pomegranate Grapefruit drink. A 64-ounce bottle retails for a suggested $3.59.

  • Healthy Consumers Drive Functional Foods Market Growth: Study
    Grocery stores have become hunting grounds for healthful, functional foods and beverages that offer distinct wellness advantages beyond basic nutrition, and this has boosted sales of such products by 6 percent to almost $31 billion in 2008, according to a new study by market research publisher Packaged Facts.

  • PBH Providing New Marketing Materials
    The Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) is now offering new marketing materials to licensed retailers online. The materials, meant to promote the “Fruit & Veggie of the Month” campaign, include recipes, consumer columns and ad slicks.

  • Currant Event
    For 100 years, black currants were nationally banned from commercial cultivation in the United States, since the fruit, as a vector of white pine blister rust, was considered a threat to the American logging industry.

  • Economic Downturn Pits Saving Money Against Eating Healthy
    Consumers are shifting priorities when making grocery purchase decisions in the current economy, according to a new survey released by the Midwest Dairy Council. According to the April telephone survey of 1,002 people, more than half of consumers say price, not nutrition, is the most important factor when grocery shopping in this economic climate.
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