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Noluma International LLC: UK Consumers Are Being Left in the Dark as New Report Uncovers the Detrimental Impact to Nutrients in Dairy From Light Damage
After two hours of exposure to LED lighting – the type found in supermarkets – milk begins to lose vitamin A. After 16 hours, it has half the amount expected. The report also shows that riboflavin can decrease by 28% after just 20 minutes of indoor light exposure. With around half of all milk remaining on display for at least eight hours, a significant proportion of milk on retail shelves is at risk of light damage if it does not have any form of light-protected packaging.
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The report notes there are solutions to this issue including packaging which is designed to be light-protected as technology is available to design containers that reduce or prevent light damage. Laboratory testing on milk found that while the light-protected milk retained almost all Vitamin B and lost only 16% of Vitamin A while non-light-protected milk lost all Vitamin B and 93% of Vitamin A.
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The report comes ahead of a Dairy in the Dark interactive grocery store pop-up in London , to be held 27-30 May at 230 Portobello Road, London . The event will bring to life an extreme example of how milk's nutrients and taste can be preserved without light protected packaging.
Noluma, which measures, assesses and certifies companies to help them deliver the highest level of light-protection, has also launched a website for consumers – www.lightdamageisreal.com – to educate the public about the issue of indoor light damage.
Noluma International LLC, is a global company with representatives throughout the world. Noluma laboratories are located in the USA , Taiwan and in the EU.
Noluma offers light protection measurement, design and certification of packaging for consumer-packaged goods. The Noluma™ logo certifies that packaging meets the gold standard for light protection, ensuring that what's inside has the quality, freshness, nutritional elements, efficacy and sensory qualities promised.
This report is founded on extensive scientific literature reviews using Web of Science, PubMed, Google Scholar and Scopus, in addition to further research of grey literature sources. Published literature was reviewed with an emphasis on recent publications from 2015-2019 and was chosen specifically to review new developments in packaging technology.
This research is funded by Noluma International, LLC.