Examining the Development, Regulation, and Consumption of Functional Foods

The promotion of proper nutrition can assist in disease prevention and help to ensure an overall healthy lifestyle. Certain natural or processed foods are particularly useful in achieving and maintaining these goals.

Examining the Development, Regulation, and Consumption of Functional Foods is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly material on the consumption and use of specific foods to prevent, manage, and treat diseases. Highlighting critical issues relating to the development, preparation, regulation, and overall benefits of functional foods, this book is ideally designed for medical practitioners, nutritionists, upper-level students, researchers, and academicians.