date:Jan 19, 2016
urrent trend is to replace the concept of adequate nutrition with optimum nutrition. The terms like functional foods, foods for specific health use or specific health promoting foods have been coined suggesting that foods may have a beneficial action on certain functions in the organisms that goes beyond their nutritional effects.
Nutrients are now being used not only to correct the nutrient deficiencies but for other functions. This has led to development of products collectively called as nut