ABSTRACT
The research areas of functional foods and nutraceuticals are rapidly expanding throughout the world. Scientists are actively working on the health bene ts of foods by identifying their functional constituents, elucidating their biochemical structures, and determining the mechanisms behind their physiological roles. These research ndings contribute to a new nutritional paradigm, in which food constituents go beyond their role as dietary essentials for sustaining life and growth, to one of preventing, managing, or delaying the premature onset of chronic diseases later in life.
