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Recent Patents on Engineering
Advances in food and nutrition sciences highlighted that diet can provide consumers with components able to
both modulate body functions, improve health status and wellbeing and/or reduce the risk of some diseases. Therefore,
much research has been undertaken in recent years on development and application of technologies to develop functional
foods. Functional foods and dietary supplements can make health claims and/or structure/function claims. Health claims
state that an ingredient may reduce the risk of a disease, whereas, structure/function claims declare that an ingredient in
the product could benefit a body’s structure (the skeletal system) or its function (the circulatory system). This paper includes
information on the common products rich in nutraceutic components; explains the importance of probiotic and prebiotic
foods and finally focuses on recent patents dealing with functional formulations for specific human diseases