Medical foods in USA at a glance  

作　　者：Shiming Li Chi-Tang Ho Klaus W.Langec 

机构地区：[1]College of Life Sciences,Huanggang Normal University,Huanggang 438000,China [2]Department of Food Science,Rutgers University,New Jersey 08901,USA [3]Department of Experimental Psychology,University of Regensburg,Regensburg 93040,Germany

出　　处：《Journal of Future Foods》2021年第2期141-145,共5页未来食品学报（英文）

摘　　要：Increasing interest in attaining an optimal health have longstanding and are imperative for consumers,medical and health researchers and functional food scientists and producers among others.Functional food is defi ned as foods that have a biological function with a very broad range of coverage including natural and conventional foods with reported bioactivities,dietary supplements and medical foods.Its concept is inclusively broad and ambiguous.Medical food is a specifi c class of functional foods with clear defi nition and limited coverage to guarantee its integrity.This review introduced the defi nition of medical food by the US Food and Drug Administration,intended to clarify the differences among medical food,dietary supplements and conventional foods,and 1isted some examples of medical food products developed in the US.

关 键 词：Medical food Dietary supplement Functional food NUTRACEUTICALS 

分 类 号：F42[经济管理—产业经济]