Medicinal properties in whole foods: the Capsicum fruit.

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | June 1, 2002| | Copyright

"Functional foods," "nutraceuticals," "designer foods" and "medicinal foods" are terms that describe-foods, and key ingredients isolated from foods, that have supra-nutritive or tertiary functional properties. Researchers, healthcare practitioners, laypersons, and the popular media use these words interchangeably. The purpose of this column is to detail valid scientific information available on the physiologic actions of known constituents and combinations of constituents, as they naturally occur in "functional foods," highlighting theft medicinal and nutritive mechanisms of ...

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