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FUNCTIONAL FOODS: AN INNOVATIVE PROGRESSSION FOR BIOINDUSTRIES

Nivedita Sharma

Healthy food choices are always a good investment. Food is the most primitive form of comfort and is a common ground, a common experience for every individual. Since the last two centuries, significant changes in the world’s food system have occurred and renewed interest in the functional foods have been observed in the world; largely driven by their health benefits. Functional foods are foods that offer extra health benefits beyond their nutritional value and obtained through a technological intervention that increases its level of biologically active compounds. Biologically active compounds are components of foods that act positively on key body functions that are relevant to health.