2. Any safe substance that is (or able to be) eaten and drunk

3. Foods that provide a health benefit beyond basic nutrition

5. Let Food be Your Medicine
Functional food is a food where a new ingredient(s) (or more of an existing ingredient) has been added to a food and the new product has a new function (often one
related to health-promotion or disease prevention).
Functional foods are one of the fastest-growing segments of the food industry.
Let Food be Your Medicine

6. The Philosophy behind is: “Focus on Prevention”
Health benefit:
Enhancement of physiological functions  Improvement of health status
Prevention of pathological action prevention of diseases (reduction of the risk of diseases)

7. The term “Nutraceutical” was coined from “Nutrition” & “Pharmaceutical” in 1989 by
Stephen DeFelice,
MD, Founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine (FIM).
Other words used in the context:
Dietary supplementation, Functional, Multi-functional Foods, etc.

8. Nutraceutical can be defined as
“ A food or part of food or nutrient, that provides health benefits, including the prevention and treatment of a disease.”

9. Types of Functional Foods
Conventional foods
Fortified or enriched foods
Dietary supplements

10. Conventional Foods as a Functional Food
Foods that are inherently functional
Foods that have naturally present constituents that are functional
For example: apple, broccoli, soy, fish, etc.

11. Fortified & Enriched Foods as a Functional Food
Foods that are imposed functional
Foods that functional components are added to
For example:  fortified nutrients added to fruit juices
Food fortification is basically the process of adding micronutrients (essential trace elements and vitamins) to food stuffs..

12. Dietary Supplements as a Functional Food
Foods that are legally functional (classified by current legal standards)
Products:
that are intended to supplement the diet that contain one or more of certain functional dietary ingredients
that are found in pill, tablet, capsule, powder, or liquid form
that are meant to be taken by mouth

13. Legally Classified & Supported Functional Food
“Dietary supplements” in US
“Foods for special dietary use” in Japan
“Health functional foods” in Korea

14. Health Claim for Functional Food -1
Naturally fucntional foods
Functional components-added foods
No health claim labeling allowed !!

15. Health Claim for Functional Food -2
Legally classifed & suppored functional foods: “Health functional foods” in Korea & “Dietary supplements” in US
Health claim should be statements that inclusion of a substance in the diet “may help reduce the risk of a named disease or symptom