ISSN: 2574-2701
Authors: Dinçay AA*
The primary task of a healthy diet is to meet metabolic needs and provide enough energy and nutrients for the body to work. However, consumers who have changed their production and consumption motifs in recent years. They have begun to take preventive measures against diseases as well as seek solutions to health problems with the aim of having a healthy and quality life. Functional food consumption also emerges as one of the measures taken by today’s more conscious consumers. Various food and food ingredients are known to have beneficial effects on our health, but they have begun to focus more on their biological regulatory roles through the macro- and micro-components they contain. We reviewed the factors that have driven the functional food development. Morever, lots of research is required to further understand the molecular benefits of food additives and ingredients that are used for food itself or for food enrichment. New strategies become imperative to improve the health and nutritional profile of functional foods and reducing the effects on the environment
Keywords: Functional Food; Health; Bioavailability
