Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and at least one sweetness enhancer in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof. The sweetness enhancer is selected from naringin dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, swingle extract, rubusoside, rubus extract, rebaudioside, and stevioside.

A method for treating a sleep disorder according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes administering a composition comprising an extract of Hibiscus syriacus as an effective ingredient to a subject in need thereof. Because the Hibiscus syriacus extract of the present invention has an effect of improving sleep time deteriorated by stress, and an effect of reducing the content of corticosterone, which increases due to stress, and increasing the content of serotonin in blood. In addition, the composition has an effect of enhancing in a significant sense the expression of GABAR A α1 in cerebral cortex, which decreases due to stress, in a group administered with Hibiscus syriacus extract. As such, the composition comprising Hibiscus syriacus extract as an effective ingredient as an effective ingredient can be advantageously used as a functional health food composition or a pharmaceutical composition for preventing, ameliorating or treating sleeping disorders.

A method for treating a sleep disorder according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes administering a composition comprising an extract of Hibiscus syriacus as an effective ingredient to a subject in need thereof. Because the Hibiscus syriacus extract of the present invention has an effect of improving sleep time deteriorated by stress, and an effect of reducing the content of corticosterone, which increases due to stress, and increasing the content of serotonin in blood. In addition, the composition has an effect of enhancing in a significant sense the expression of GABAR A α1 in cerebral cortex, which decreases due to stress, in a group administered with Hibiscus syriacus extract. As such, the composition comprising Hibiscus syriacus extract as an effective ingredient as an effective ingredient can be advantageously used as a functional health food composition or a pharmaceutical composition for preventing, ameliorating or treating sleeping disorders.

Described herein are formulations that can contain one or more plant extracts that can used to treat or prevent Vibrio spp. infection in a subject. Also described herein are methods of treating and/or preventing Vibrio spp. infection in a subject by administration of a formulation described herein. In some embodiments, the subject is a crustacean. In some embodiments, the crustacean is a shrimp.

Described herein are formulations that can contain one or more plant extracts that can used to treat or prevent Vibrio spp. infection in a subject. Also described herein are methods of treating and/or preventing Vibrio spp. infection in a subject by administration of a formulation described herein. In some embodiments, the subject is a crustacean. In some embodiments, the crustacean is a shrimp.

Disclosed herein is an anticaking agent for cheese, comprising one or more dairy ingredients; and one or more non-dairy ingredients. When applied the anticaking agent is applied to a divided cheese, it has low visibility on the divided cheese, prevents caking of the divided cheese, and browns similarly to divided cheese without the anticaking agent when baked in an impinger oven at between 425° F. and 450° F. for 5 minutes. Also disclosed are food products containing an anticaking agent described herein, and methods for treating divided cheese for anticaking using an anticaking agent described herein.

The disclosed invention relates to a chemical composition that can be taken orally and supplements an unhealthy diet and lifestyle. In one aspect of the invention the chemical composition includes Retinol Palmitate, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Niacin, Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), Pyridoxal, Folic Acid, Cyanocobalamin, Cholecalciferol, Zinc, Manganese, Copper, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, L-Selenomethionine, Lysine, Phenylalanine, L-Threonine, L-Methionine, L-Histidine, L-Tryptophan, L-Leucine, L-Isoleucine, L-Valine, Cinnamon Bark Powder, and Curcumin.

The disclosed invention relates to a chemical composition that can be taken orally and supplements an unhealthy diet and lifestyle. In one aspect of the invention the chemical composition includes Retinol Palmitate, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Niacin, Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), Pyridoxal, Folic Acid, Cyanocobalamin, Cholecalciferol, Zinc, Manganese, Copper, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, L-Selenomethionine, Lysine, Phenylalanine, L-Threonine, L-Methionine, L-Histidine, L-Tryptophan, L-Leucine, L-Isoleucine, L-Valine, Cinnamon Bark Powder, and Curcumin.

The present invention relates to a food composition comprising lignin as a food additive, to a food composition comprising an additive composition which in turn comprises lignin, to an additive composition comprising lignin, as well as to the uses of lignin and the additive composition.

Also disclosed are benefits of the food composition comprising lignin or comprising an additive composition comprising lignin for animals as well as for products derived thereof.

The present invention relates to a food composition comprising lignin as a food additive, to a food composition comprising an additive composition which in turn comprises lignin, to an additive composition comprising lignin, as well as to the uses of lignin and the additive composition.

Also disclosed are benefits of the food composition comprising lignin or comprising an additive composition comprising lignin for animals as well as for products derived thereof.