According to Oxford researchers working with colleagues in Norway, chocolate, wine and tea enhance cognitive performance. The team, from Oxford’s Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and Norway, examined the relation between cognitive performance and the intake of three common foodstuffs that contain flavonoids (chocolate, wine, and tea) in 2,031 older people (aged between 70 and 74). Participants filled in information about their habitual food intake and underwent a battery of cognitive... ...Read more »

Energy drinks shook up the beverage market when they connected with consumers’ interest in something new and different. A decade later, a multitude of new categories vie for attention, as companies large and small seek the next style that will rocket to beverage industry success.Many of the American aspirants represent variations on existing categories, according to a report from Beverage Marketing - ‘Up-and-Coming Beverage Categories in the U.S.’. Just as energy drinks could be... ...Read more »