Invited commentary Functional foods or functionally marketed foods? A critique of, and alternatives to, the category of 'functional foods' 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 (1). The 'functional foods' concept has been notoriously hard to define. Discussions of functional foods oft...

background: desirable health is impossible without good nutrition, and allah has addressed us on eating foods in 118 verses. objectives: this study aimed to describe the medical university faculty members’ perceptions of nutritional health in the quran, revealing the important role of faculty members. materials and methods: this qualitative study was conducted with a phenomenological approach. ...

BACKGROUND The functional food industry has experienced innovative and economic expansion, yet research into consumer perceptions of functional foods and their associated health claims is limited. Among consumers, older adults could benefit from functional foods due to age-related issues pertaining to food and health. The purpose of this research was to identify the need for information related...

"Functional" foods are branded foods, which claim, explicitly or implicitly, to improve health or well being. We review typical functional foods and their ingredients, efficacy, and safety. We also review regulations for health claims for foods worldwide. These regulations often allow manufacturers to imply that a food promotes health without providing proper scientific evidence. At the same ti...

This study is part of the research undertaken in the EU funded project CLYMBOL ("Role of health-related CLaims and sYMBOLs in consumer behaviour"). The first phase of this project consisted of mapping the prevalence of symbolic and non-symbolic nutrition and health-related claims (NHC) on foods and non-alcoholic beverages in five European countries. Pre-packaged foods and drinks were sampled ba...

The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) revised the Health Functional Food Act in 2008 and extended the form of health functional foods to general food types. Therefore, this study was performed to investigate consumers' perceptions of the expanded form of health functional food and to predict consumption patterns. For this study, 1,006 male and female adults aged 19 years and older were ...