Health food

Health foods are a food type, with a common food products in general, and its raw materials mainly from the natural flora and fauna, with advanced production technology, its wealth of content to play a role in the effectiveness of components to extreme, so that it can regulate the body functions, apply to have specific functional requirements of the corresponding special foods crowd.
Health food according to the functions can be divided into: nutritional supplement-based, anti-oxidized (longevity-type), diet type, adjuvant therapy type. Among them, nutrient supplements health function is to add one or more nutrients necessary for human body. And functional health food, it is through its effects components, play a specific and unique regulatory function.
In short, whether it is the type of health food, health care for the purpose are not available, and required only one to benefit from taking a long time.
First mention of health foods, people often immediately think of vegetables, fruits, and as fishy as the enemy of oil. In fact, a lot of meat, oil crops, animal offal also the maintenance of human health has played a key role. But so far, Hong Kong or other Western countries such as the United States and Australia in the law does not define health foods, health foods in Taiwan they defined as "special nutrients or have specific health effects, in particular, be labeled or advertisements, rather than to treat human diseases for the purpose of correction of the food. " Therefore, the current in the market, the so-called health foods including food supplements, functional foods and natural foods.
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