oods that provide demonstrated physiological benefits or reduce the risk of chronic disease, above and beyond their basic nutritional functions.
Food that provides health benefits beyond energy and essential nutrients (e.g. yogurt, which promotes beneficial microflora in the gut).
Foods or dietary components that may provide a health benefit beyond basic nutrition, such as chocolate, inulin/oligofructose, nuts, berries and soy.
a product that encompasses potentially healthful food and includes ingredients that provide a health benefit beyond the traditional nutrients contained in the ingredients of the food itself
a therapeutic product, used under the supervision of a physician when a patient has special nutrient needs in order to manage a disease or health condition
Ordinary food that has components or ingredients added to give it a specific medical or physiological benefit, other than a purely nutritional effect. Also known as nutraceutical.
Food or food ingredient that has been shown to affect specific functions or systems in the body. Functional foods play an important role in disease prevention.
food enriched or fortified with components or ingredients offering a specific health benefit other than a strict nutritional effect
Functional foods contain, either naturally or added, a substance that provides health benefits beyond its nutritional value. Tomatoes are a functional food.
Foods that contain physiologically active compounds that provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition.
A functional food is "consumed as part of a usual diet that is similar in appearance to, or may be, a conventional food, and is demonstrated to have physiological benefits and/or reduce the risk of chronic disease beyond basic nutritional functions." ( Health Canada)
A food product that provides health benefits beyond simply energy and essential nutrients. Functional foods have extra components or ingredients to give them a specific medical or physiological benefit, other than a purely nutritional benefit. Examples of functional foods include Omega-3 enhanced eggs; food spreads like Benecol® that are enhanced with stanol esters to lower cholesterol and lycopene-enhanced tomatoes to provide increased amounts of the important carotenoid, lycopene.
Functional food or medicinal food is any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic nutritional function of supplying nutrients, although there is no consensus on an exact definition of the term.