Abstract
Based on published data, it is now accepted that diet can have beneficial physiological and psychological effects, beyond the well-established nutritional effects, by modulating specific target functions and responses in the body (WHO/FAO 2002). Hence, diet not only promotes optimal development and health, but also plays an important role in disease prevention by eliminating or reducing the risk of certain life-style related chronic diseases, thus, to meet the optimal diet composition, promote health, and reduce modern lifestyle-related diseases, the concept of functional foods has been developed and adopted in the health food sector of food and nutraceutical industries.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Nutraceutical and Functional Food Processing Technology |
| Editors | Joyce Irene Boye |
| Place of Publication | U.S. |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Pages | 307-345 |
| Number of pages | 39 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118504970 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781118504949 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- diet
- health food
- microencapsulation