This email is an update on Herbal-Active®, a new natural preservative beginning to replace benzoates and sorbates in a wide range of foodstuffs and cosmetics.Natural preservatives pose a host of challenges in developing their application potential. As with chemical preservatives, ...
This is a recent press release on the use of Herbal-Active® solution as a means of extending the shelf life of cut flowers:MEDIA RELEASESecret herbs control rot in RosesA chance application of a product formulated by Cherikoff Bioactives may have revealed ...
We get a huge number of inquiries from cosmetic manufacturers looking to replace parabens, benzoates, GSE and other chemical or non-natural preservatives with natural and even organic shelf life extenders.Luckily, Herbal-Active® can do just this although there is a method ...
You might observe that I don’t use the word preservatives or even natural preservative when talking about Herbal-Active® because it generally refers to synthetic chemical agents for shelf life extension. While Herbal-Active® achieves the same result, considering it as a ...
Here’s an interesting piece of research which initially took me aback and then made perfect sense.Out of a bunch of restaurants in which lemon wedges on drinks were microbiologically tested, 77% returned high populations of food borne disease organisms including ...
What does it really take to get and stay healthy?I introduced my last email with this:Every day, do some exercise for physical healthWork on your emotional health (strengthen your relationships)Your mental health (creativity and inspiration)Your spiritual health (gratitude and helping others) but most of allTop up your ...
Well maybe not everything but even if we try to eat only the so-called healthy foods, they will not deliver. Our foods have changed. The species we grow; the way they are grown; the post-harvest handling and storage; and the ...
Decisions are easier when we can compare our options For me, it was more than just the improvement in my health and fixing of a few issues that seem to come bundled with coming up to 70 years of age.The ...
Be Creative with Authentic Australian Ingredients Why deal with Australian Functional Ingredients Pty Ltd? Vic Cherikoff is credited as a pioneer of the Australian Wild Food Industry, some say the Grandfather (or should that be Godfather?) of Australian wild foods ...
Here's an interesting article which is an insight into the absurdity of some medical treatments. The same could apply to treatments for rogue cell outgrowths too.See the story here:A summary: Lasers are one of the tools physicians can lean on ...
A lot of people ask how I’ve stuck at developing Australian wild foods for over 3 decades from when I was introduced to these unique resources of the World’s longest living culture. I recognised that we could not afford to ...
Wild foods and gout is a topic about which I am often asked. This probably reflects the growing incidence of gout which was once only a condition suffered by fat, old men who ate rich foods including red meats, shellfish, ...
Lots of layers in this topic.There is no doubt that we should be eating more wild foods as they supply an enormous range of phytonutrients that are being bred out of our conventional produce. Read more about this at the ...
We produce a range of freeze-dried (lyophilized) wild fruits for chocolate coating, snack foods, breakfast cereals etc. The range includes riberries, rainforest limes, Illawarra plums, finger limes, Davidson plums, wild rosellas and of course, our star product; the LIFE (Lyophilized Indigenous ...
For ManufacturersGive Yourself the Edge with Australia’s Most Interesting, Creative and Innovative Ingredients (but please ask us how best to brand them)Discover the functional (nutritional, antimicrobial, culinary or cosmetic) uses of the wild resources of the world's longest living culture.Australian ...
Lots of interest in Fresher4Longer natural food rinse™ (and Herbal-Active®, our industrial name for the same product) since we won the Australian Food Industry Innovations Award for 2013.I have a few links to articles on the topic of food waste ...
Hospitality Directory has given me some air with a product review on Herbal-Active®.My natural antimicrobial is ideal for berries, cherries, stone fruits and melons; vegetables such as zucchini and cucumbers and even tomatoes which can harbour molds which can then contaminate ...