Ficci-nutraceuticals.com
Ficci-nutraceuticals.com is a website that provides information about Abbott and Syngene's cooperation. This partnership aims to provide and develop nutraceuticals in India. Abbott Nutrition R&D Center in India will focus on the development of science-based, affordable nutrition products for the country and enable the expansion of Abbott's nutrition product portfolio there. With this cooperation of 2 famous companies in this field, it promises to create high-quality nutraceuticals.
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1. What is a nutraceutical?
This week we begin a short series of articles which are intended to review the scientific and medical claims relating to nutraceuticals which do not fall into the more well-known categories of vitamins, amino acids, and herbal remedies. This article, which introduces the series, looks at what defines a nutraceutical
By Esther Bull, BSc, Lisa Rapport, BPharmS, MRPharmS, and Brian Lockwood, Ph.D., MRPharmS
Over the past few years, an increasing number of dietary supplements have become available in supermarkets and health food shops and they are also available for purchase in pharmacies.
The term “nutraceutical” is used to describe these medicinally or nutritionally functional foods. Nutraceuticals, which have also been called medical foods, designer foods, phytochemicals, functional foods, and nutritional supplements, include such everyday products as “bio” yogurts and fortified breakfast cereals, as well as vitamins, herbal remedies and even genetically modified foods and supplements. Many different terms and definitions are used in different countries, which can result in confusion.
The term “nutraceutical” was coined in 1989 by Stephen De Felice, founder and chairman of the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine, an American organization which encourages medical health research.1?3 He defined a nutraceutical as a “food, or parts of a food, that provide medical or health benefits, including the prevention and treatment of disease”.
In Canada, a functional food has been defined as being “similar in appearance to conventional foods … consumed as part of a usual diet” whereas a nutraceutical is “a product produced from foods but sold in pills, powders, (potions) and other medicinal forms not generally associated with food”.4
In Britain, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has developed a definition of a functional food as “a food that has a component incorporated into it to give it a specific medical or physiological benefit, other than purely nutritional benefit”.5
Hence, both in Canada and in Britain, a functional food is essentially a food, but a nutraceutical is an isolated or concentrated form. In America, “medical foods” and “dietary supplements” are regulatory terms (see below), however “nutraceuticals”, “functional foods”, and other such terms are determined by consultants and marketers, based on consumer trends.6
Many of these new products that are being promoted to treat various disease states, find their origins in the plant kingdom. This is an obvious choice as many plants produce secondary compounds such as alkaloids to protect themselves from infection and these constituents may be useful in the treatment of human infection. There is also a long history of plant use in many cultures which can be used to identify plants with activity in the treatment of disease.7 (via:pharmaceutical-journal.com)
References:
1.Jack DB. Keep taking the tomatoes - the exciting world of nutraceuticals. Mol Med Today 1995:118-21.
2.Brower B. Nutraceuticals: Poised for a healthy slice of the market. Nat Biotechnol 1998;16:728-33.
3.Mannion M. Nutraceutical revolution continues at Foundation for Innovation in Medicine Conference. Am J Nat Med 1998;5:30-3.
4.Mazza G. Functional foods. Pennsylvania, US: Technomic Publishing Company Inc, 1998.
5.Cockbill CA. Food law and functional foods. Br Food J 1994; 96:3-4.
6.Aarts TA. How long will the “Medical Food” window of opportunity remain open? J Nutr Function Med Foods 1998, 1:45-57.
7.Senior K. Pharmaceuticals from plants: promise and progress. Mol Med Today 1996:60-4.
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