It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to recognize that although all foods provide some level of physiological function, the term functional foods is defined as whole foods along with fortified, enriched, or enhanced foods that have a potentially beneficial effect on health when consumed as part of a varied diet on a regular basis at effective levels based on significant ...

Recently, the interest in functional foods has increased dramatically thanks to some scientific evidences demonstrating that, regardless of their nutritional value, some foods components beneficially influence several functions of the body, making them “functional” for the prevention and treatment of degenerative diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. In particular, the ...

Obesity is a global problem and numbers are rising at a fast pace in developing countries and it becomes a major public health concern. Economic costs associated with obesity are high and increasing as the rate of obesity. Obesity leads to its co-morbidities; namely diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, osteoarthritis, stroke and inflammatory diseases. Changes in life-style along wit...

The main role of diet is to provide nutrients to meet host physiological requirements. As research behind diet and health has evolved, so has the concept of ‘functional foods’ become popular. Foods which are touted as being ‘functional’ are thought to exert certain positive properties over and above their normal nutritional value. While not universally popular and sometimes plagued by inadequat...

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Diabetes, emerging as a pandemic, is a major health problem predisposing to micro and macrovascular complications. Traditional Indian diets are functional because they are enriched with antioxidants, dietary fiber and probiotics.The present paper reviews on the scientific information of common Indian foods with anti-diabetic activity, which is used as functional foods and ingredients in the tra...

OBJECTIVE To assess differences in functional foods consumption between European countries. DESIGN Systematic review. The literature search was conducted in Medlars Online International Literature (MEDLINE), via PubMed© and Scopus. Twenty two studies were identified to examine the differences in functional food consumption between European countries. RESULTS Figures on consumers of function...

There is an old Chinese thought meaning that medicine and food are isogenic. In Japan, a national research project started to endorse the thought scientifically, with the birth of functional foods that are now known to function to reduce the risk of life-style related diseases. The science gave rise to a national policy in which some functional foods were legally approved in terms of Foods for ...