The term “Nutraceuticals” was given from “Nutrition” and “Pharmaceuticals" by Stephen Defelice who is MD founder and Chairman of the foundation for innovation in medicine (FIM) Cranford, New Jersey in 1989. According to Stephen Defelice Nutraceuticals can be defined as an “A food or part of food or a nutrients that provides us health benefits, which also includes prevention and cure of disease.”
Broadly can be defined as “Nutrients – Substance which have recognized Nutritional functions eg. Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids, fatty acids etc.
“Herbal/Phytochemicals- Herbs or Botanical products”
“Dietary Supplements- Probiotics, Prebiotics, Antioxidants”. Nutraceuticals is a combination of two words:
i). Nutrition ii). Pharmaceuticals
Nutraceuticals are “naturally derived bioactive compounds that are found in foods, dietary supplements and herbal products and these have health promoting, disease preventing and medicinal properties”. These are the variety of molecules which can be used single or in the arrangement as dietary supplements that completes the inborn deficiencies.
According to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) a Nutraceuticals is any material that is food or part of a food that has medical or health benefits. Nutraceuticals helps in …show more content…
Different life events need varied nutritional support. For example most people know that a pregnant women needs to eat more. She always needs a special diet because she is in a special situation. Pregnancy is a condition that requires a better nutrition for a better a result. If woman does not have enough folic acid than she can give a birth to a baby with certain birth defects that’s why better nutrition is important. If woman eats too much of sugar during her pregnancy can develop a kind of diabetes that will also make her baby sick at birth. This is called gestational diabetes. It increases the child risk of being
Broadly can be defined as “Nutrients – Substance which have recognized Nutritional functions eg. Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids, fatty acids etc.
“Herbal/Phytochemicals- Herbs or Botanical products”
“Dietary Supplements- Probiotics, Prebiotics, Antioxidants”. Nutraceuticals is a combination of two words:
i). Nutrition ii). Pharmaceuticals
Nutraceuticals are “naturally derived bioactive compounds that are found in foods, dietary supplements and herbal products and these have health promoting, disease preventing and medicinal properties”. These are the variety of molecules which can be used single or in the arrangement as dietary supplements that completes the inborn deficiencies.
According to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) a Nutraceuticals is any material that is food or part of a food that has medical or health benefits. Nutraceuticals helps in …show more content…
Different life events need varied nutritional support. For example most people know that a pregnant women needs to eat more. She always needs a special diet because she is in a special situation. Pregnancy is a condition that requires a better nutrition for a better a result. If woman does not have enough folic acid than she can give a birth to a baby with certain birth defects that’s why better nutrition is important. If woman eats too much of sugar during her pregnancy can develop a kind of diabetes that will also make her baby sick at birth. This is called gestational diabetes. It increases the child risk of being