Essentials of functional foods /
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| Language: | English |
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Gaithersburg, Md :
Aspen,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Relationship of food, nutrition, and health
- Functional foods and dietary supplements : product safety, good manufacturing practice regulations, and stability testing
- Thermal and nonthermal preservation methods
- Flavoring systems for functional foods
- Measurements of nutrients and chemical components and their bioavailability
- Infant formulas and medical foods
- Dietary supplements
- Dairy ingredients as a source of functional foods
- Pre- and probiotics
- Fats and oils and their effects on health and disease
- The soybean as a source of bioactive molecules
- Dietary fiber and its physiological effects
- Food fortification with vitamin and mineral nutraceuticals
- Antioxidants and their effect on health
- Assessment of safety and efficacy of functional foods and ingredients
- U.S. Government regulation of food with claims for special physiological value
- Regulatory issues : Europe and Japan.