Nutraceuticals and Nutrition Supplements: Challenges and Opportunities

摘要

The term “nutraceuticals” is derived from “nutrition” and “pharmaceuticals” and is used for nutrition products that are also used as medicine [ ]. “Nutraceuticals” often contain modified/unmodified whole food, plant extracts alone or in combination, semipurified and purified phytochemicals, or a combination of different phytochemicals. On the other hand, nutritional supplements are nutritional compounds that supplement one’s diet by increasing one’s total daily intake. Nutritional supplements also contain substances alone or in combination with vitamins and minerals, with or without other herbal products, with or without zoochemicals (creatinine, glucosamine, melatonin, bee pollens) and with or without probiotics.