Functional Ingredient Spotlight: Green Coffee Extract
food shopping, grocery, processed food Lynn Grieger, RDN, CDCES, CHWC, CPT food shopping, grocery, processed food Lynn Grieger, RDN, CDCES, CHWC, CPT

Functional Ingredient Spotlight: Green Coffee Extract

Unroasted #coffee beans contain higher amounts of chlorogenic acid (CGA) — the #phytochemical in coffee that provides many of the health benefits — than roasted coffee.

Studies using CGA have found that it decreases fasting blood sugar, insulin levels, triglycerides, and LDL cholesterol as well as reducing body weight and decreasing body fat.

So let’s talk about green coffee extract, a popular #functionalingredient…

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Functional Ingredient Spotlight: Collagen
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Functional Ingredient Spotlight: Collagen

We choose what we eat for a variety of reasons: taste, convenience, cost, and #health concerns. Food manufacturers capitalize on consumers’ desire for healthy foods by adding ingredients that are marketed to help protect our #immune system, improve #mood, and increase #energy levels. One of the ways they do this is through #functionalingredients like #collagen…

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