Functional foods and ingredients that are safe and efficacious have the potential for a positive impact on health. Current regulations in the United States governing claims about foods and dietary supplements, including functional foods and ingredients, are briefly reviewed. Research and communications challenges necessary to bring such products to the market are discussed.

Dr Stephen DeFelice coined the term "Nutraceutical" from "Nutrition" and "Pharmaceutical" in 1989. The term nutraceutical is being commonly used in marketing but has no proper definition. An attempt to redefine nutraceuticals and functional foods is made in this article. The proposed definitions can help distinguish between functional foods, nutraceuticals, and dietary supplements. The advantag...

Vitamins are a heterogeneous group of organic compounds that help ensure the human bodys wellbeing and function. This paper introduces importance all vitamins, both water-soluble fat-soluble, as well problems deriving from their deficiency. Additionally, vitamin supplements part treating deficiency, possible harmful effects on body areshowcased. The main focus is B complex, B12 specifically. be...

Journal of Food and Drug Research is an open access, peer review Journal focuses on Food and Drug Science and Technology in relation to all the topics interest to public health. Therefore, the journal covers a broad spectrum of topics including food and drug analysis, technology, development and design, production and processing, biotechnology, safety and toxicology, digestion, metabolism, bioa...

The European Union market is overflown by food supplements and an increasing number of consumers prefer those where bee products play an important part in their composition. This paper deals with complex European Union legislation concerning food supplements based on bee products, placing a special emphasis on their composition, labelling, and safety. Correct labelling of food supplements also ...

Many specialists note that the food offered today - as a result of very complex technological processing - is devoid of many components that are important for the organism and the shortages have to be supplemented. The simplest for it is to consume diet supplements that provide the missing element in a concentrated form. In accordance with the applicable law, medicinal products include all subs...

In Germany the addition of the trace element boron as boric acid or borax to food supplements was not permitted up to now. However, this situation could soon change since the laws in the EU Member States are to be approximated and its addition is permitted in other European countries. If this happens, boron could also go on the market in Germany as an ingredient in food supplements. Against thi...

OBJECTIVE Although a wide range of acute and preventative medications are now available for the treatment of migraine headaches, many patients will not have a significant improvement in the frequency and severity of their headaches unless lifestyle modifications are made. Also, given the myriad side effects of traditional prescription medications, there is an increasing demand for "natural" tre...