Posted on 10/14/2021 1:05:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
In the Covid-19 era, consumers are eager to bolster their immune systems and companies are flooding grocery shelves with products that claim to help
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If you’ve seen a barrage of food packages promising to help your immune system lately, you’re not alone.
Even cans of cheese balls now are touting immune-system benefits. Good Crisp Co. this summer launched cheddar cheese balls with an ingredient that “helps strengthen the immune system and enhances its key functions,” the label says.
On a recent shopping trip, Colorado mom Grace Resch snapped up a canister, attracted to the idea of immune support. “It makes me feel even better purchasing, especially right now with everything going on with Covid,” says Ms. Resch, who lives in Thornton, Colo., and has two boys who aren’t yet old enough to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
In the Covid-19 era, consumers are eager to bolster their immune systems and companies are filling grocery shelves with products claiming to help. Marketers launched 383 food and beverage products with immune-health claims in the first half of this year, outpacing last year’s first-half count of 326, according to Innova Market Insights, a market research firm. Last year’s full-year total was itself a 31% increase from the year before.
“Immunity comes up in nearly every conversation I have with clients,” says Lu Ann Williams, director of innovation for Innova. “We are afraid to get sick. American healthcare is very messy. Consumers are looking for a cheaper alternative that brings some type of silver bullet.”
Doctors say that the nutrients touted in immunity-claim marketing are often ones that your immune system does need to function properly, including vitamin C and zinc. Most people already get enough of those nutrients without needing extra amounts added to their food, ...
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Red wine has reservatrols, which are somewhat beneficial to the heart, or so I’ve read. Vodka? Beats me, but it’s a good drink when mixed; just don’t plan on using you brain in the morning. Heh.
I prefer Budweiser.
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