1st Edition
The Functional Foods Revolution Healthy People, Healthy Profits
336 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
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Foods that promote human health - 'functional foods' or nutraceuticals - have caught the imagination of the global food industry. All the household-name companies are developing them as a key driver in their global strategies. They see the prospect of new markets and bigger margins, but the issues presented are fraught with complexity and difficulties. Distinguishing hype from real hope, the... Read more
Introduction * Part 1: a New Era in Food and Health? - What are Functional Foods ? * Benecol - the Rise and Fall of the Colossus of the Functional Food World * Part 2: Risk, Regulation and Policy Dilemmas - A Clash of Two Nutrition Revolutions and Cultures? * Eating and Drinking in the Risk Society - Implications of Risk for Functional Food * Health Claims and Functional Food * Part 3: The Unfolding of the Functional Foods Revolution Across the World - The Japanese Invented Functional Food * The US - Breaking the Boundaries Between Food, Medicine and Health * Is Finland the 'Silicon Valley' of European Functional Foods? * Part 4: Global Marketing and Strategic Challenges - The Marketing of Functional Food and the European Dairy Industry * Functional Food Strategies - Lessons from the Revolutions * Part 5: The Healthful Company (tm) : A Leap Forward * Appendices * Notes * References * Index
Biography
Michael Heasman and Julian Mellentin are directors of the Centre for Food & Health Studies, a London-based think-tank that researches, analyses and forecasts developments in food and health around the world, and co-editors of the international business journal New Nutrition Business.
