Functional health food is understood and consumed by more and more people. Whether it is a supplement, optimization or replacement of modern food, it has largely reconstructed people's food composition categories. Functional health food has become a hot track in the new consumption wave in Healthy Food Expo.

What is functional health food?

Firstly, functional health food belongs to the category of food, and secondly, functional health food can regulate the function of the human body, but not for the purpose of treating diseases. Moreover, laws and regulations also have clear requirements for functional healthy food: non-toxic, harmless, in line with due nutrition, its function can not replace the human body's normal dietary intake and all kinds of essential nutrients.

The daily use of functional healthy food can provide preventive supplement of nutrients for healthy people, and also promote the rehabilitation process for people with abnormal physiological function. Its main difference with drugs lies in: functional health food safety requirements are higher; Free to use without a doctor's prescription; There is no substitute for drugs for treatment.

What needs does functional health food meet?

We have only a partial understanding of the efficacy of functional health food, many people's understanding of its efficacy stays in the conditioning of the body, improve the constitution and other aspects.

In fact, in 2016, the country has summarized the scope of functional health food, a total of 27 effects: enhance immunity;  Auxiliary blood lipid reduction;  Assist in lowering blood glucose;  Anti oxidation;  Assist in improving memory;  Relieve visual fatigue;  Promote lead discharge;  Clear the throat;  Assist in lowering blood pressure;  Improve sleep;  Promote lactation;  Relieve physical fatigue;  Improve hypoxia tolerance;  It has auxiliary protection function against radiation hazards;  Lose weight;  Improve growth and development;  Increases bone density;  Improve nutritional anemia;  Auxiliary protective effect on chemical liver injury;  Dispel acne;  Remove chloasma;  Improve skin moisture;  Improve skin oil content;  Regulating the gut microbiota;  Promotes digestion;  Defecate;  It has auxiliary protective function to gastric mucosal injury.

The future direction of functional health food

It is inevitable that functional healthy food is gradually integrated into daily life. This is because with the continuous rise of the concept of health preservation in recent years and the continuous promotion of the concept of "preventing disease" by the state, the consumption of functional healthy food is also increasing year by year.

Several directions for functional health food are as follows:

1.Probiotics must be at the heart

Probiotics are a general term for a class of active microorganisms, which can colonize the human body and change the composition of a certain part of the host microbiome. Different probiotic species can improve our health by regulating the host mucosa and system immune function or by regulating the balance of intestinal flora, promoting nutrient absorption and maintaining intestinal health through different mechanisms.

2.0 calories anti-sugar

Behind the popularity of sugar and fat control, or even sugar and fat, is the rising perceived priority of body size management. Modern people's lack of nutrition and lack of exercise time have led them to constantly seek dietary success.

After controlling sugar and fat, the taste of daily food changes greatly. However, functional health food will not have such an unacceptable change. Their taste, taste and taste are better after the treatment of sugar and fat control. Sugar and fat control has gradually changed from a niche core demand of weight management group to a wide range of public demand.

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Source: FFL Future Food Lab

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