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. The ‘functional foods’ concept has been notoriously hard to define. Discussions of functional foods often begin by acknowledging that there are no generally accepted definitions of ‘functional foods’ and note the ‘ambiguity of definition and inte...

The bioavailability of minerals, Zn, Fe, Ca and Mg from cereals, is low because it is present as an insoluble complex with food antinutrient component such as phytic acid. The commonly consumed fermented foods in Khandesh region of Maharashtra, India was investigated for some minerals and anti nutritional factor, Phytate. We study the effect of fermentation with an aim to reduce the content of ...

UNLABELLED A treatment with differential or noncontingent reinforcement and nonremoval of the spoon increased the acceptance of one or two of 16 foods for 2 participants with severe food refusal. These differential levels of acceptance were demonstrated empirically in an ABAB design in which A was the presentation of the accepted (preferred) foods and B was the presentation of foods the partici...