Functional foods: an ecologic perspective
| Autor: | Bernadette M. Marriott |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Ecology (disciplines)
Medicine (miscellaneous) Legislation Functional food Medicine Production (economics) Animals Humans Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Meaning (existential) Marketing Nutrition and Dietetics Ecology business.industry Plant Extracts Perspective (graphical) Legislation Food Legislation Drug United States Biotechnology Diet Product marketing National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Food Dietary Supplements business |
| Zdroj: | The American journal of clinical nutrition. 71 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9165 |
| Popis: | A functional food is defined as any food or food ingredient that may provide a health benefit beyond that conferred by the nutrients the food contains. As nutrition scientists move into this arena, they must build on the wealth of information that already exists in plant biology. In particular, the evolutionary and physiologic bases for the production of secondary plant chemicals in plants must be considered in order to plan meaningful experiments for testing the functionality of these chemical compounds for humans. One problem that may arise is that in using the term functional food, the meaning may be lost in the continued proliferation of related terms used in product marketing. The new National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements addressed some of these issues as it developed the operating definitions described in this report. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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