What Is New in the Preventive and Therapeutic Role of Dairy Products as Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods?

Table 1

Difference between functional foods and nutrients with examples.

Functional foods	Nutraceuticals
The foods with ingredients which give that food health-promoting properties over and above its usual nutritional value	The foodstuff (as a fortified food or a dietary supplement) held to provide health or medical benefits in addition to its basic nutritional value
Naturally contain bioactive compounds found in foods	The bioactive compounds found in fortified foods, dietary supplement, or herbal products
Natural	Natural or synthetic and available as pills, capsules, or liquids
The bioactive compounds in them are different from the traditional nutrients	Include traditional nutrients
Grapes, strawberries, and apple are examples	Beta-carotene, lycopene, resveratrol, and ferulic acid are examples

Source: Mulry [4].