Author: A. Ozen, A. Pons, J. Tur
demand for foods and beverages that improve or benefit health has increased in many parts of the world, alongside rising costs of healthcare, increases in life expectancy, and desire for a higher quality of life, dietary supplements is a health tool that promises specific effects related to particular food components, functional foods containing ingredients that beneficially influence specific body functions, in addition to being nutritious, functional food can thus be a natural food or it can be a food that has been modified to have a functional influence on the health and well-being of the consumer through the addition, removal, or modification of specific components, patterns of functional food consumption
