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The document defines functional foods as foods that provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition. It discusses definitions from various organizations like IFT, IFIC, and ADA. It notes the concept originated in ancient China and Japan, with Hippocrates saying "let food be thy medicine". Japan was the first to legally commercialize selected functional foods. The document outlines ways a natural food can be engineered to become functional by increasing beneficial components, adding missing ones, replacing ha
- Author
- raja singam
- Language
- EN