functional food

English

Noun

functional food (plural functional foods)

1. Any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients

   Coordinate term: nutraceutical

   • 2021 September 15, Sirin Kale, “Muscles and methane: how protein became the food industry’s biggest craze”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     These “functional foods”, which included protein powders and shakes, were branded as sports nutrition and primarily targeted at men.

Translations

health-promoting food

• Finnish: terveysvaikutteinen elintarvike
• Galician: alimento funcional (gl) m
• Spanish: alimento funcional m
• Swedish: mervärdesmat c, nyttomat c
• Welsh: bwyd gweithredus m

Further reading

• functional food on Wikipedia.Wikipedia