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Question 1

Functional Foods, what is it?

Answer 1

Ingredients that offer health benefits that extend beyond their nutritional value. Some types contain supplementsor other additional ingredients designed to improve health. Originated in Japan in the 1980s

Question 2

example of industrialized functional food

Answer 2

probiotics and prebiotics

Question 3

Bioactive compound

Answer 3

Molecule that helps and interects with cell function, it can have health benefits

Question 4

2 dietary compunds that exhibit food synergy

Answer 4

Avocados and Red Peppers and Green Tea/Matcha and Lemon Juice

Question 5

Bioactive compounds with anticancer properties regulate

Answer 5

adoptosis and inhibit mitosis

Question 6

Turmeric can have antiinflamatory properties

Answer 6

it inhibits inflamatory molecules like cytofines

Question 7

is there a regulation in mexico regarding the use of functional foods

Answer 7

there is not only regulation

Question 8

3 functions that phytochemicals have in plants

Answer 8

it helps them to survive, form stress, UV radiation

Question 9

what is the function of lutein in the macula?

Answer 9

it protecs it from blue light fliters and it prevents it degeneration