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functional foods

functional foods is the plural of functional food.

Meaning of functional food

Noun

functional food (plural functional foods)

  1. Any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients.
    • These “functional foods”, which included protein powders and shakes, were branded as sports nutrition and primarily targeted at men.2021 September 15, Sirin Kale, “Muscles and methane: how protein became the food industry’s biggest craze”, in The Guardian

Questions about functional foods

What is functional foods the plural of?
Functional foods is the plural of functional food.

Words near functional foods in the dictionary

  1. functional disorders
  2. functional drink
  3. functional drinks
  4. functional equivalence
  5. functional food
  6. functional foods
  7. functional genomics
  8. functional graph
  9. functional graphs
  10. functional group
  11. functional groups

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