Nutrition



Nutrition


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[|Functional food] - a food given an additional function (often one related to health-promotion or disease prevention) by adding new ingredients or more of existing ingredients.
 * a natural or processed food that contains known biologically-active compounds which when in defined quantitative and qualitative amounts provides a clinically proven and documented health benefit, and an important source in the prevention, management and treatment of chronic diseases
 * processed food or foods fortified with health-promoting additives, like "vitamin-enriched" products.

Some examples
 * fortification - addition of iodine to table salt, or Vitamin D to milk, done to resolve public health problems such as rickets
 * fermented foods with live cultures are considered functional foods with probiotic benefits.

Probiotic

Medical food, specially formulated foods to treat diseases with distinctive nutritional needs (e.g., an inability to metabolize a common molecule)

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 * [|ferment] - to cause to undergo or break down an organic substance by chemical change

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 * [|Medical microbiology] - the study of microbes, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, which cause a human illness and their role in the disease.

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