What Is a Functional Food?
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
The U.S. is the largest consumer of functional foods, it was a 44 billion dollar market in 2012 and it's increasing with at least 60 percent of people consuming functional foods, occasionally. IFT spokesperson Cathy Adams Hutt, PhD, RD CFS explains in the following video what a functional food is and how functional foods can contribute to a nutritious diet. By definition, a functional food is a typical food that has specific nutrients added to it like vitamins and minerals, to serve a specific purpose.