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Article: Functional Foods: A Survey of Health Claims, Pros and Cons, and Current Legislation
- Article from:
- Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
- Article date:
- July 10, 2005
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Functional foods stand for a new category of remarkably promising foods bearing properties (i.e., low cholesterol, antioxidant, anti-aging, anticancer, etc.) that have already rendered them quite appealing. There are many classes of functional foods (pro- andpre-biotics, dietary fiber, low fat, e
tc.), and their definition is occasionally confused with that of nutraceuticals and novel foods. Consumers' main skepticism regarding functional foods resides in the veracity of health claims and in the low and often inadequate control of their claimed properties. Legislation concerning this matter is progressing at an extremely low pace and currently only Japan, the U.K., U.S.A., and Scandinavian ...