Functional Food Definition

noun
A food or beverage product to which vitamins, phytochemicals, etc. have been added so as to increase its health-promoting properties.
Webster's New World

Any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients.

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Other Word Forms of Functional Food

Noun

Singular:
functional food
Plural:
functional foods

Functional Food Sentence Examples

  • Since capsules can be expensive and in many case quite "unnatural" with the added risk of potential impurities (Chinese imports have been found to cause quite a few scares lately,) we'll focus on the functional food angle.

  • This powerful kitchen small appliance serves three different practical purposes, serving as a fully functional food processor, powerful mixer and fast-acting blender.

  • A 2006 study published in the journal, Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies (v.7 (4) 309-317), found there was good evidence to suggest coconut flour has potential as a functional food.

  • A functional food has nutritional value as well as the possibility of aiding body processes.

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