There is a growing interest among producers and the public in functional foods or foods that may provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition. The availability of such foods highlights the changing nature of the food supply and the tremendous difficulty in trying to maintain accurate and timely food composition data. Key questions arise. How can and should we track and maintain a database of ...

Consumers began to view food from a radically different vantage point in the 1990s. This 'changing face' of food has evolved into an exciting area of the food and nutrition sciences known as functional foods. Functional foods can be defined as those providing health benefits beyond basic nutrition and include whole, fortified, enriched or enhanced foods which have a potentially beneficial effec...

Role of diet beyond basic nutrition in supporting health and prevention of diseases has been clearly established. This has led to the development of a different category of foods called functional foods. Secondary metabolites present in these foods have a role in preventing life threatening chronic diseases like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, arthritis, cancer as well...

BACKGROUND Cancer is a major disease worldwide, and many patients use complementary and alternative treatments. The purpose of this study was to identify the herbal remedies and functional foods used as complementary medicine by prostate, breast and colorectal cancer patients at speciality care facilities in Trinidad. We also sought to determine how patients rated the efficacy of these modaliti...

In recent years, the food industry has increased its interest in development of functional foods, including fruit juices, due to demand among consumers for foods and beverages that benefit improve our health [...]

Recently consumer demands in the field of food has significantly changed. Consumers, in fact, are aware of that food is related to their health [1]. Even the concept of food has undergone in recent years a profound transformation since it is not only to provide necessary nutrients for humans but also to prevent diseases and improve physical and mental consumer health [2]. In this regard, functi...

Increasing awareness among consumers to know which specific molecules present in their food possess disease preventive or curative properties has led to the concept of functional foods. This study was planned to formulate and evaluate health mixes based on functional foods, study the acceptability, nutrient content, anti nutritional factors, shelf life and cost to know their economic viability....

Sleep is a vital segment of life, however, the mechanisms of diet promoting sleep are unclear and are the focus of research. Insomnia is a general sleep disorder and functional foods are known to play a key role in the prevention of insomnia. A number of studies have demonstrated that major insomnia risk factors in human being are less functional foods in dietary. There are higher functional co...