functional food
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[edit]Noun
[edit]functional food (plural functional foods)
- Any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients
- Coordinate term: nutraceutical
- 2021 September 15, Sirin Kale, “Muscles and methane: how protein became the food industry’s biggest craze”, in The Guardian[1]:
- These “functional foods”, which included protein powders and shakes, were branded as sports nutrition and primarily targeted at men.
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[edit]health-promoting food
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Further reading
[edit]- functional food on Wikipedia.Wikipedia