Author: Rashida Ali, M. Athar, Umer Abdullah, S. Abidi, M. Qayyum
components of foods have clearly established strong links with human health and it is learnt that their deficiencies provoke diseases, molecular level of such interactions of specific food constituents with that of the toxicants generated in the living cells to control and prevent many of the diseases, products possess fantastic healing capacity, nutrients functional food factor (FFFs), health promotion, disease prevention and cure, natural products releasing such superb active components are known as nutraceutical foods, bioactive constituents of many foods have been identified during the goal oriented scientific studies and are used frequently in community and clinical nutrition, metabolic processes, immunomodulator, nutritional immunology, stimulating actions of phytochemicals on neuronal diseases have indicated wide spectrum of applications of functional foods both in daily life and in the industry
