Healthy food is a type of food, which has the commonality of general food, and its raw materials are mainly taken from natural animals and plants. Regulates human body functions, and is suitable for special foods eaten by corresponding groups of people with specific functional needs. For healthy food, health food certification is available.
Health food can be divided into: nutritional supplement type, antioxidant type (health care type, longevity type), weight loss type, adjuvant therapy type, etc. Among them, the health function of nutrient supplements is to supplement one or more nutrients necessary for the human body.
In short, no matter what type of healthy food, it is for the purpose of health care, not quick-acting, and needs to be taken for a long time to benefit people.
Green food refers to organic fruits and vegetables or wild food without pesticide contamination. Such fruits and vegetables are free from any pesticides or additives from cultivation to harvest.
The therapeutic food is the symptomatic food for the patient, such as low-fat, low-calorie, low-salt, low-sugar food, low-cholesterol food, fortified nutritional food, diet food, diabetic food and nutrition-regulating food.
Nutritional supplements include various types of nutritional supplements added to food, or foods with certain nutritional inhibition factors removed, such as multivitamin pills, calcium tablets, and iron supplements.
Food for special purposes is food for medical use. For example, patients suffering from cereal protein allergy must eat specially treated cereals extracted from wheat protein, rice protein, etc. to avoid the recurrence of the disease.
Functional foods have the effect of preventing or delaying the occurrence of certain diseases, such as Lactobacillus bifidum beverages, low-fat milk and other symptomatic and slow-acting foods with a little daily health food factors; healthy beverages, nutritional beverages, sports beverages, Artificial fast-acting foods such as special reduction foods.
China has regulated health food legislation, and only those foods that have been approved by relevant state departments can use special health food labels and be sold on the market.