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名詞

functional food (plural functional foods)

1. Any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients.

   Coordinate term: nutraceutical

   • 2021 September 15, Sirin Kale, “Muscles and methane: how protein became the food industry’s biggest craze”, in The Guardian‎:

     These “functional foods”, which included protein powders and shakes, were branded as sports nutrition and primarily targeted at men.