functional food

English

Noun

functional food (plural functional foods)

Any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients
Coordinate term: nutraceutical
- 2021 September 15, Sirin Kale, “Muscles and methane: how protein became the food industry’s biggest craze”, in The Guardian‎:
  These “functional foods”, which included protein powders and shakes, were branded as sports nutrition and primarily targeted at men.

Translations

health-promoting food

Finnish: terveysvaikutteinen elintarvike
Galician: alimento funcional (gl) m
Spanish: alimento funcional m
Swedish: mervärdesmat c, nyttomat c
Welsh: bwyd gweithredus m

Further reading

functional food on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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