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Super Foods.
Functional food or
medicinal food is any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting
or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients. The general category of functional
foods includes processed food or foods fortified with health-promoting
additives, like "vitamin-enriched" products. Fermented foods with live cultures
are considered as functional foods with probiotic benefits.
Functional foods are an emerging field in food science due to their increasing
popularity with health-conscious consumers.
Medical foods are foods that are specially formulated and intended for the
dietary management of a disease that has distinctive nutritional needs that
cannot be met by normal diet alone. They were defined in the Food and Drug
Administration's 1988 Orphan Drug Act Amendments and are subject to the
general food and safety labeling requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act.
Medical foods are distinct from the broader category of foods for special
dietary use and from traditional foods that bear a health claim.
Medical foods can be classified into the following categories:
Nutritionally complete formulas
Nutritionally incomplete formulas
Formulas for metabolic disorders
Oral rehydration products
