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Sales and the 'Talent Magnet'
A lot is written about being a ‘Talent Magnet’, either as a company, or as President. It’s all good practice – listen, mentor, reward, provide clear goals and career maps. Good practice for the employer, but what about the employee?26 May 2011
Focus Area: Ingredients
Healthy oils for supplements
Some specialty oils are considered in this article, which are interesting for supplements and beauty from the inside and out. Besides typical omega-6 and omega-3 oils derived from e.g. borage and chia seeds there are other oils with less usual fatty acids like puninic acid and palmitoleic acid obtained from pomegranate seeds and seabuckthorn pulp. In case of amaranth and millet seeds more specific lipid components like squalene and miliacin form part of the oil composition which in all cases is rounded out by the presence of more or less phytosterols and tocopherols as beneficial by-products. The effectiveness of such lipid components is described on base of recent literature evidence.
Reducing acrylamide
How do you effectively reduce the level of acrylamide in starchy foods that have been baked or fried? Novozymes’ Emmanuel Michelot tackles your question.
Do you give a monkeys about palm oil?
Inexpensive and versatile, palm oil’s popularity in the western world is legend. But can our conscience cope with the destruction its production causes?
The gold standard
Victor Ferrari sheds some light on recent Pycnogenol research areas and its functional food and beverage applications.
Nature preserves
Consumers are looking for less artificial ways to keep foods fresh, says Purac's Ivo van der Linden.
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