功能性食品工艺设计（二）.doc

功能性食品工艺设计（二） —功能性食品的概述与分类 一、功能性食品的定义 我国定义：功能食品是指具有营养功能、感觉功能和调节生理活动功能的食品。 通过查找相关文献，查阅功能食品的定义： Globally, ‘Functional Food’ is not a legal term and there are various ways to define it. 在全球，‘功能性食品’不是一个法定的术语。[1-16] The term ‘Functional Foods’ was first introduced in Japan in the mid-1980s as‘processed foods containing components that provide specific body functions’, when the Japanese Ministry of Health Welfare was hoping to improve the health of the Japanese ageing population and reduce escalating health-care costs (Arai, 1996). 功能性食品这个术语第一次被提出是在八十年代中期的日本，被认为是一类包含着能够提供特定生理功能因子的精加工食品”。