What role does functional food play in promoting health?

Its scope includes: foods that enhance human physique (enhancing immune ability, activating lymphatic system, etc. ); Food for preventing diseases (hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, constipation and tumor, etc.). );

Healthy food (controlling cholesterol, preventing platelet aggregation, regulating hematopoietic function, etc.). ); Foods that regulate the body rhythm (nerve center, nerve endings, intake and absorption functions, etc.). ) and foods that delay aging.

Functional food is sometimes called health food. In academic and scientific research, it is more scientific to call it "functional food".

Extended data:

Food demand

Functional foods must meet the following four requirements:

(1) is non-toxic and harmless, and meets the nutritional requirements.

(2) Its function must be clear and specific, and it must be confirmed by scientific verification. At the same time, its function can not replace the normal dietary intake of human body and the requirements for various essential nutrients.

(3) Functional food is developed and produced for specific people who need to regulate some aspects of the body.

(4) It is not for the purpose of treatment and cannot replace the therapeutic effect of drugs on patients.

Reference materials? Baidu encyclopedia-functional food