Invited commentary Functional foods or functionally marketed foods? A critique of, and alternatives to, the category of 'functional foods' The term 'functional foods' is a relatively new food category or concept, originating in the 1980s and becoming more widely used over the past decade (1). The 'functional foods' concept has been notoriously hard to define. Discussions of functional foods oft...

the study specifically described the socio-economic status of the people involved in the production, distribution and consumption of convenience foods in lafia urban of nasarawa state. it identified the factors that influence the entry into convenience food enterprise, factors necessitating the demand and supply of the products and examined the costs and returns of three convenience foods. the ...

objective: to ascertain the effects of soy [in the forms of textured soy protein (tsp) and soy-nut] on lipid profiles, apolipoproteins, inflammatory and prothrombotic markers and blood pressure in elderly women with the metabolic syndrome. materials and methods: the study is a 12-week parallel randomized controlled trial that was conducted in rural health centres of babol, iran. the participant...