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Summary Nutraceuticals
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NutraceuticalsThe term “nutraceutical” combines two words – “nutrient” (a nourishing food
component) and “pharmaceutical” (a medical drug). The name was coined in
1989 by Stephen DeFelice, founder and chairman of the Foundation for
Innovation in Medicine, an American organization located in Cranford, New
Jersey.
Nutraceutical is any substance that is food or a part of food that provides
medicinal or health benefits including the prevention and treatment of disease
Nutraceuticals are concentrated components
Found in botanicals and food
Extracted and sold as part of dietary supplements
Used for their health promoting, disease prevent and medicinal properties
Contains natural bioactive compounds
Believed to have some curative properties
Used as a drug
Classification of nutraceuticals
They can be classified on the basis of their natural sources, pharmacological
conditions, as well as chemical constitution of the products
Dietary Functional food Medicinal food Farmaceuticals
supplement
Represents a This category Is formulated to Are medically
product that includes whole be consumed or valuable
contains nutrients foods and administered components
derived from food fortified, enriched internally, under produced from
products, and is or enhanced the supervision of modified
often dietary a qualified agricultural crops
concentrated in components that physician. Its or animals. The
liquid, capsule, may reduce the intended use is a term is a
powder or pill risk of chronic specific dietary combining of the
form disease and management of a words “farm” and
• Probiotics provide a health- disease or “pharmaceuticals
• Prebiotics benefit beyond condition for ”. Could prove to
• Antioxidant the traditional which distinctive be cost effective
s nutrients it nutritional and more
• Enzymes contains requirements are profitable for
established by the farmers
medical
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