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

Table 2

Various types of functional foods.

Type	Description	Example
Enriched food products	Adding new nutrients or ingredients that are not usually found in food	Fruit juice enriched with calcium, foods with probiotics and prebiotics
Enhanced food commodities	Changes in raw materials that altered the nutrient composition	Carotenoid-containing potatoes, high-lysine corn
Fortified food products	Increase the content of nutrients present	Grain products fortified with folic acid, fruit juice with extra VC
Altered food products	Change existing components with beneficial components	Low-fat foods with fat replacers

Source: Spence [27].