Volume 11 Supplement 2

▪ Keyword : novel food, role, potential, safety

▪ Content : Focusing on novel foods: Their role, potential and safety

▪ Keyword : dietary protein, genetic modification, indispensable amino acids, novel foods

▪ Content : Recent estimates of human requirement for indispensable amino acids have shown that the requirement for key amino acids such as lysine is twofold–threefold higher than previously thought. As a consequence recommended intakes for protein, particularly for vulnerable groups such as the elderly, need to be revised. Indispensable amino acids can also be used directly to improve amino acid supply in diets,

▪ Keyword : communication, fortification, iodine deficiency disorders, iron deficiency anaemia

▪ Content : Food fortification has played a significant role in the current nutritional health and well-being of populations in industrialized countries for over 70 years. A relative lack of a concentrated food processing chain, less developed commercial markets, and relatively low consumer awareness and demand have hindered the same application of the intervention in the transitional, and even more, in the least developed countries until quite recently.

▪ Keyword : novel foods, plant foods, phytochemicals

▪ Content : Foods derived from plants, such as fruits and vegetables, have been the backbone of human nutrition since the beginning of time. Hunting and fishing supplemented diets with protein-rich foods but nutrition was predominantly based on the availability of plant foods. The importance of various plant foods in the development of some civilizations and economies has been well documented: maize in the Americas, potatoes in parts of Europe after their introduction from the Americas, and wheat in Australia.

▪ Keyword : consumers, novel foods, nutrition communication, trends

▪ Content : The present paper will discuss the nature of nutrition communication and knowledge in relation to novel foods. The paper starts with an introduction to trends in present-day society, then focuses on the concepts of knowledge and information in relation to human needs and motivation. Next, the relevance of food and nutrition communication to consumer lifestyles is discussed. This is followed by consideration of consumer issues related to novel foods. The key conclusions are that nutrition communication is a minor part of most consumers’ lifestyles and that the promotion of novel foods must be based on the dissemination of sound nutrition principles throughout the various values and lifestyles segments of the population.

▪ Keyword : aging, body, communication, food, soul, trend

▪ Content : The history of food is a history of thousands of years of human choice set in the context of an almost Darwinian process of natural selection. Around the world, food is eaten to fill stomachs and to keep bodies strong and healthy. In Asia there is, frequently, a shift in emphasis. The Asian people, like everyone else, eat to survive, but they also eat to keep their bodies finely tuned, physically and spiritually.

▪ Keyword : capacity building, novel food, risk assessment, Vietnam

▪ Content : Novel foods and novel food ingredients are making a rapid appearance in countries such as Vietnam. They are likely to gain acceptance by the consumers because medicinal and health properties of food are traditionally sought by people in the region. Although these foods offer potential benefits to the population in terms of increasing the nutritional adequacy of the diet, they also pose potential problems. I

▪ Keyword : food regulations, health claims, nutrition claims, nutrition labelling

▪ Content : The present report provides an overview of the situation of nutrition labelling, nutrition claims and health claims in several countries in the Asia Pacific region. The regulatory requirements of six countries in South-East Asia (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand), two other countries in Asia (China and Japan) and Australia–New Zealand are reviewed. With the exception of the recently introduced Joint Food Standards Code of Australia–New Zealand and the proposed new regulations in Malaysia, there is no mandatory nutrition labelling requirements for a wide variety of foods in all these countries.

▪ Keyword : functional foods, label claims, novel foods

▪ Content : Novel or functional foods may provide health and nutritional benefits due to non-nutritice components such as fiber, flavonoids, and phenols. National, regional and international regulations are discussed as a means to control label claims, composition and uses.

▪ Keyword : biotechnology, global, malnutrition, novel foods, nutrigenomics

▪ Content : The world’s demand for food is becoming greater than ever. The current world population of 6 billion will exceed 8 billion in 2025 and new innovations are needed to meet the growing challenges of the poor and hungry world. Novel foods produced through biotechnology may help alleviate the problems of poverty and food insecurity, but only if steered by continual policy development and actions at the regional, national and international levels. The great progress made with iodized salt in combatting iodine deficiency disorders, through global partnership, provides inspiration for future applications of nutritional science and food technology to public health problems in the developing world.

▪ Keyword : lifespan, novel foods, nutritional status

▪ Content : The purpose of the present paper was to examine the scope of novel foods in improving and/or preventing the nutritional disorders in different stages of lifespan. First, attempts were made to review the current trend and magnitude of the nutritional problems in each of the stages starting from fetal development to old age. The paper then describes the possible potential role of novel foods in alleviating and/or preventing these nutritional/health problems. The conclusion made is that the novel foods have a great potential for improving the overall nutritional status throughout the lifespan, thereby reducing the risk of early death or disability due to chronic diseases. However, to achieve a noticeable impact of novel foods on public health, efforts are needed to ensure that these ...

▪ Keyword : chronic diseases, dietary recommendations, dietary response, gene expression, gene–nutrient interaction

▪ Content : Advances in molecular and recombinant DNA technology have led to exquisite studies in the field of genetics and the recognition in a much more specific way, through DNA sequencing, of how unique each one of us is, and the extent to which genetic variation occurs.

▪ Keyword : folate, food, genetic variation, nutrition, requirements

▪ Content : The potential for new functional foods and substantial modification of traditional foods presents unprecedented opportunities and new challenges to the public health community. The technical advances that enable these possibilities presumably present an efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable means of improving human health and preventing nutrition-related diseases.

▪ Keyword : biotechnology, food safety, genetic engineering, genetically modified food, novel foods

▪ Content : Globally, three major problems faced by humanity are population explosion; insufficient production of food (especially so in the South Asian countries); and underdevelopment. These problems are interdependent and need to be tackled soon. Among various factors that limit the world’s population, it is undoubtedly the scarcity of food that is most obvious even to a lay person because food is essential for survival.

▪ Keyword : carbohydrate, food intake indices, glycaemic index, intact food, novel foods, oligosaccharides

▪ Content : Carbohydrates, from food, have a high degree of acceptability in the human diet as safe and are usually associated with other important nutrients, notably protein and various micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), but also biologically advantageous phytochemicals, although there is a wide spectrum of nutrient (or food component) densities between grains, root and other vegetables and fruits.

▪ Keyword : blood pressure, cancer, diabetes mellitus, fat, inflammation, lipoprotein lipids

▪ Content : Dietary intake of fats and sterols has long been known to play a critical role in human health. High proportions of saturated fat, which increase blood cholesterol levels, are mainly found in animal fat and some plant oil (e.g. cocoa butter, palm oil etc.). The predominant polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) in the Western diet is linoleic acid (LA; 18:2n-6), an essential fatty acid, which is commonly found in vegetable seed oils.

▪ Keyword : docosahexaenoic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, metabolism of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids, ratio of omega-6:omega-3 fatty acids

▪ Content : Human beings evolved consuming a diet that contained approximately equal amounts of omega-6 and omega-3 essential fatty acids. Over the past 100–150 years there has been an enormous increase in the consumption of omega-6 fatty acids due to the increased intake of vegetable oils from seeds of corn, sunflower, safflower, cotton and soybeans.