date:Oct 19, 2012
logy section, NDRI, southern region.
Functional foods or health foods are those value-added foods having health-promoting or disease-preventing properties in addition to providing one or more basic nutrients and energy. Globally, it represents a fast-growing sector of the food industry, he added.
The global functional food market is growing at 7 per cent with Japan and USA being the leading countries in the fray. The value addition can be done by new product development, modification of exis