Functional Foods and Biotechnology

Gopinadhan Paliyath, Robert E. Levin, Kalidas Shetty, Anthony Pometto — 2006

World-wide there are more overweight and obese people (1 billion) than there are malnourished (0.8 billion). Today the challenge lies not just in meeting basic nutritional needs, but providing additional protective ingredients to help prevent the major chronic diseases associated with obesity. Biotechnology has become an important tool in recent ye