Carrot powder provides nutrient boost; Food inclusion market to reach $15.8 billion

Functional carrot powderprovides nutrient boost
Transforming vegetables into functional ingredients for incorporation in food formulations could increase consumers’ consumption of bioactive compounds. However, heat treating vegetables during drying to obtain powders induces a significant loss of the compounds. A solution was detailed in a recent Journal of Food Sciencestudy, which showed that a functional carrot powder could be obtained by applying wounding stress to carrots prior to dehyd…