Functional foods

Functional food is any processed food claimed to have a health-promoting or disease-preventing that goes beyond the basic macronutrient and micronutrient functions.

Functional food is any processed food claimed to have a health-promoting or disease-preventing that goes beyond the basic macronutrient and micronutrient functions.

Food technologists at the Riddet Institute are developing product prototypes of functional foods with microencapsulated fish oil added. Here, we explain why prototypes are important.

Consumer testing is common practice in food product development. Here, we describe how new food prototypes containing microencapsulated fish oil are tested by consumers at the...