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Nutraceuticals—Prophylactic and Therapeutic Role of Functional Food in Health

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Today’s world is an industrialized one, with challenges of excess healthcare expenses, longer life expectancy, better scientific knowledge and developed technologies. Nutritionists believe in the idea of ‘optimal nutrition’ that focuses on developing a daily diet based on the nutraceutical and nutritional properties of the food that favour good health

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Banerjee, E.R. (2017). Nutraceuticals—Prophylactic and Therapeutic Role of Functional Food in Health. In: Perspectives in Translational Research in Life Sciences and Biomedicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5870-7_6

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