Author(s):

B Nandhini Reddy, Lakshmi Naganathan, ANV Sunitha, R Bhagya Jyothi, B Chaitanya and JVC Sharma

Abstract: Nutraceuticals, functional foods and dietary supplements are getting universally accepted as people are understanding health and its necessity to lead or fit into this fast life. The other reasons being these products safe compared to medicines, deleterious effects of medicine and mostly health consciousness. The wheel of time having gone a full circle, today the important role of diet in disease prevention is being increasingly realised in current scientific thinking as well that also played a role in triggering the world’s belief in this. Therefore Nutraceuticals entirely helps in providing the necessary nutrients and are taken or prescribed based on requirements. The sources might be chemical, herbal extracts, phytoconstituents – traditional or non-traditional type or from minerals.

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