{"id":221324,"date":"2016-07-25T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=221324"},"modified":"2016-07-25T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:37:00","slug":"the-search-for-functional-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-search-for-functional-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"The search for functional foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_221326\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-221326\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_Laborat\u00f3rio.jpg\" alt=\"Embrapa Laboratory: fortified nutritional quality\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_Laborat\u00f3rio.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_Laborat\u00f3rio-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_Laborat\u00f3rio-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">TOMAS MAY<\/span>Embrapa Laboratory: fortified nutritional quality<span class=\"media-credits\">TOMAS MAY<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) announced that it would open a new center, with headquarters in Macei\u00f3, the capital of the state of Alagoas, for research into functional foods, aromas and flavors.\u00a0 The center\u2019s purpose, according to Embrapa, is to offer producers a variety of nutrient-fortified products that can satisfy the new demands of the market.\u00a0 \u201cEmbrapa already offers a variety of vitamin and mineral enriched products\u2014like yams, cassava, beans, corn, and cowpeas\u2014that benefit approximately 2,500 families in Brazil\u2019s Northeast, Southeast and Southern regions; and they are working to improve wheat, squash, and rice varieties,\u201d says company president Maur\u00edcio Lopes.\u00a0 \u201cNo great producing and exporting country can ignore the strong movement in favor of integrating the concepts of food, nutrition and health,\u201d adds Lopes as he describes Embrapa\u2019s successes with other initiatives, such as lettuce produced with large quantities of vitamin B9, which is vital to the nutrition of pregnant women.\u00a0Research into functional foods is taking place throughout the country at a number of Embrapa\u2019s 46 centers.\u00a0 The plan is to oversee the projects and float new ideas from the Macei\u00f3 headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Embrapa opens a center for research into functional foods, aromas and flavors","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[199,251],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-221324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-farming","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221324"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=221324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}