Functional food

Functional food (Functional food) is a food that has specific nutrition and health function, that is, suitable for a specific group of people to eat, and has the function of regulating body function, not for treatment purposes. Functional food is sometimes also known as health food. In academic and scientific research, it is more scientific to call "functional food". It includes: the human body to enhance (enhance immunity, activating the lymphatic system) food; to prevent the disease (hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, constipation and cancer) food; healthy (control cholesterol, prevent platelet aggregation and regulation of hematopoietic function such as food); regulate body rhythms (central nervous system, nerve endings, uptake and absorption function) food and anti-aging food.