It was launched in 1988, and is often considered the first functional food.
Inulin is also gaining popularity as a source of soluble dietary fiber and functional food.
Its fish oil is aimed to the pet food, functional foods and pharmaceutical sectors.
It utilized its patented safflower pharming platform to develop and make proteins and oils for the nutraceutical, functional food and beverage, and pharmaceutical industries.
Functional food products that offer health and sensory benefits beyond their nutritional composition are becoming progressively more important to the food industry.
Ltd. is a functional food made from the hybridized mycelia of shiitake and other mushrooms fermented in rice bran.
Its legal status is that of a functional food.
As a functional food component, prebiotics, like probiotics, are conceptually intermediate between foods and drugs.
