National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
This scientific review article is conducted in order to verify the impacts that functional foods have on health and quality of life of people. A functional food is that which satisfactorily demonstrates beneficial effects on one or more specific functions of the organism, due to the fact that it possesses intrinsic nutritional agents. Therefore, functional foods are appropriate to improve the state of health and human well-being, reducing the risk of diseases, mainly to vulnerable groups of people such as: pregnant women who in the pre-natal stage require sufficient nutrients for the normal development of the fetus; people with susceptibility to allergenic agents from food and groups of people of all ages who require special diets. Currently, functional foods are managing to solve this type of affectations.
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