Many consumers at the beverage exhibition take functional drinks as a refreshing, "life-saving" "blood tonic", whenever sleepy, hungry, stay up late, feel that drinking a bottle of functional drinks, you can "full blood resurrection".

Functional drinks refer to drinks that adjust the composition and content of certain nutrients to meet the needs of some special people, which can regulate the body function to a certain extent, but not for the purpose of treating diseases.

According to the classification of functional drinks by relevant global standards, the broad definition of functional drinks includes the following categories.

1. Sports drinks

Sports drink is a soft drink whose nutrient composition and content adapt to the sports physiological characteristics and special nutritional needs of the people who exercise.

In view of the fact that the human body needs to consume more energy during exercise, and often loses a certain amount of water and electrolytes due to sweating, sports drinks generally contain sugar (to supplement energy) and electrolytes, and some sports drinks also add protein, amino acids, vitamins, taurine and caffeine.

2 .Energy Drinks

Energy drinks refer to drinks containing caffeine and other nutrients (sugars, amino acids, taurine, Chinese herbal extracts and B vitamins, etc.). Their main functions are to relieve fatigue and refresh the mind.

Caffeine is the most important ingredient in energy drinks, which can stimulate the central nervous system of the human body, so that the brain mistakenly thinks that the body is not tired, so that people feel awake and full of energy.

Taurine has the functions of maintaining the body's osmotic pressure balance, maintaining normal visual function, lowering blood sugar, enhancing cardiac contractile ability, and improving immunity.

3 .Antioxidant drinks

The effective ingredients of antioxidant drinks are some phytochemicals with antioxidant function, which can play a certain antioxidant role after entering the human body, common ginkgo biloba beverage, bamboo leaf beverage, green tea beverage and so on.

4 .Functional drinks to enhance immunity

This kind of energy drink mainly adds cordyceps polysaccharide, mushroom polysaccharide, amino acids and peptides and other substances that can enhance immunity to a certain extent.

5. Other types of energy drinks

In addition to the several functional drinks mentioned earlier, there are functional drinks that add dietary fiber, oligosaccharides (bifidobacterium proliferation factor), and active probiotics, which help to maintain the balance of intestinal microbes, prevent constipation, and promote intestinal health.

Adding trace elements (such as zinc, selenium, etc.) to energy drinks can help prevent the deficiency of the corresponding nutrients.

Energy drinks should not be consumed daily

Although energy drinks contain some nutrients with special physiological functions, they cannot be consumed as daily drinks, let alone as a substitute for water.

Under normal circumstances, the human body can supplement water, and there is no need to supplement the nutrients in the functional drinks.

Although drinking energy drinks can easily obtain taurine, water-soluble vitamins and some phytochemicals, the content of these nutrients is actually lower, and drinking energy drinks consumes more sugar and electrolytes that many people do not need.

Therefore, the "cost performance" of daily drinking energy drinks is too low. The best way to rehydrate is to drink plain water, which is cheap and easy to obtain, safe and hygienic, and does not take in extra energy.

Especially remind

Caffeine is a central nervous stimulant that can temporarily drive away sleep and restore energy, but in the list of carcinogens published by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, coffee has three types of carcinogens.

It can be seen that drinking energy drinks containing caffeine has two sides, and we need to maintain a rational attitude.

In order to avoid the health risks of additional intake of sugar, sodium and large intake of caffeine, you should pay attention to controlling the total amount when drinking energy drinks.

In addition, the nutritional composition of energy drinks is not suitable for everyone, pregnant women, nursing mothers, children, teenagers and other special groups are best not to drink energy drinks.

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Source: Popular Medical Journal

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