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Mood-Enhancing and Heart Health Foods Emerging as Incidence of Heart Diseases Rises

Date:1/15/2009

LITTLE FALLS, N.J., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- As today's aging population spends increasing amounts on prevention rather than cures, the market for mood-enhancing foods will continue to experience healthy growth rates, according to the latest research from worldwide consulting and research firm Kline & Company (http://www.klinegroup.com).

While the functional foods industry has so far focused mainly on physical benefits and health claims, mood, emotional, and cognitive health claims are emerging to form an important new market segment, according to Kline's FlashPoint report titled Mood-Enhancing Foods and Beverages: The "Fun" in Functional Foods (http://www.klinegroup.com/reports/f0802.asp).

Where functional foods and beverages are broadly defined as fortified and enhanced products that offer additional health benefits beyond nutrition, "mood foods" are products that claim to uplift mood, boost mental health, or improve cognitive functions by stimulating brain chemicals known as neurotransmitters.

Kline's FlashPoint report focuses specifically on opportunities and challenges in the mood foods market segment, while another report due to be published later this year, titled Global Functional Foods and Beverages 2009: Heart Health Market Analysis and Opportunities (http://www.klinegroup.com/reports/y670.asp), examines the broader market in terms of heart health.

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