ABSTRACT
As per the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), dietary supplements are products that are not pharmaceutical drugs, food additives like spices or preservatives, or conventional food, and which also complies with any of these criteria: (1) The product is supposed to add nutrition to a person’s diet, despite it not being utilized as a meal substitute. (2) The product is or contains a vitamin, dietary element, herb used for herbalism or botanical used as a medicinal plant, amino acid, any substance that adds to other food eaten, or any concentrate, metabolite, ingredient, extract, or a combination of these things. (3) The product is labeled as a dietary supplement (IMNRC 2004).
