Contents 1. Summary Current nutrition research is aiming at health promotion, disease prevention and performance improvement. The provision of human being with required nutritional ingredients depends on both how well the host is provided with balanced foods and what state of intestinal microecology host has. Many food, endogenous and probiotic low molecular weight biologically active ingredien...

The term ‘functional foods’ is a relatively new food category or concept, originating in the 1980s and becoming more widely used over the past decade. The ‘functional foods’ concept has been notoriously hard to define. Discussions of functional foods often begin by acknowledging that there are no generally accepted definitions of ‘functional foods’ and note the ‘ambiguity of definition and inte...

production of chicken meat is an important branch of food industry. generally, poultry meat farmers aim to produce birds with superior body weight and feed conversion ratio. however, in line with current developments, there are other parameters that must to be taken into account such as lower body fat deposition and improvement in the nutrient composition of products corresponding to consumer r...