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functional beverage

functional beverage noun: a beverage with added ingredients, consumed for its supposed health benefits.

Noun

functional beverage (plural functional beverages)

  1. A beverage with added ingredients, consumed for its supposed health benefits.
    • I am referring to the development of a "functional" beverage product (an orange-flavored breakfast drink mix) with which I was associated back in the 1970s.1994, Israel Goldberg, Functional Foods: Designer Foods, Pharmafoods, Nutraceuticals
    • According to a recent industry report, the U.S. functional beverage market generated revenues of $4.7 billion in 2000 and is predicted to exceed $12 billion by 2007.2003, Tammy Foster, Beverage Quality and Safety

Examples of functional beverage in a sentence

  • Coffee is well poised to act as a functional beverage to improve energy balance regulation through its known effects on EE (caffeine) but also potentially by improving appetite regulation.2014, Victor R. Preedy, Coffee in Health and Disease Prevention, page 505:
  • In this first step of developing new functional beverage concepts, a total of 12 in-depth interviews and 3 focus groups were conducted to generate consumer information on functional beverages.2016, Fereidoon Shahidi, Handbook of Functional Beverages and Human Health, page 6:

Synonyms of functional beverage

Forms of functional beverage

pluralfunctional beverages

Questions about functional beverage

What does functional beverage mean?
Functional beverage means a beverage with added ingredients, consumed for its supposed health benefits.
How do you use functional beverage in a sentence?
Coffee is well poised to act as a functional beverage to improve energy balance regulation through its known effects on EE (caffeine) but also potentially by improving appetite regulation.
What part of speech is functional beverage?
Functional beverage is a noun.
What is the plural of functional beverage?
The plural of functional beverage is functional beverages.

Words near functional beverage in the dictionary

  1. functionable
  2. functionaire
  3. functionaires
  4. functional
  5. functional analysis
  6. functional beverage
  7. functional beverages
  8. functional constituencies
  9. functional constituency
  10. functional dependencies
  11. functional dependency

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