Functional foods
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Functional foods
The name for ‘novel foods’, which are a new type of foodstuff somewhere between a food and a medicine. They are developed for special health-promoting and preventive purposes. The products can also be misused in order to claim a health benefit which is obtained more effectively by other means.
Novel foods are regulated in the EU by a special regulation.
