ABSTRACT
A new diet-health paradigm has continued to evolve in recent years that E places more emphasis on the positive aspects of diet. The paradigm goes beyond the well-defined role of food constituents as essential nutrients required for promoting growth and sustaining life to one that optimizes the quality of life, preventing or delaying the premature onset of chronic diseases (Bidlack, 1998). The amount and composition of food consumed at various stages of life may impact the expression of certain diseases, but very little is known about most substances found in foods.
