Not medicines or health products, what are functional foods?

Collagen jelly, biscuits containing 12 kinds of vitamins, lutein jelly, staying up late and working overtime and standing up to protect the liver.
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According to the "Beijing Youth Daily" report, functional foods with a market size of 100 billion yuan quietly occupy the market
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Most of these "net celebrity foods" are labeled as functional foods by merchants, but they are not health products with the "blue hat" logo that have been approved and strictly supervised

Data show that in 2020, the output value of China's functional food consumer market will exceed 270 billion yuan, and the industry's average growth rate in the past three years will exceed 15%
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More and more young people regard it as a "weapon" against health anxiety

In China's current laws and regulations, there is only the distinction between ordinary foods and health foods, and there is no concept of functional foods
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Functional foods are close to health foods, both of which have the function of promoting health and belong to the category of foods

The customer service of the online store selling such products stated that functional foods are “not health products, but foods”

Consumers may not know whether functional foods have health-preserving and health-care functions and how many
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Since the prices of these products are often much higher than ordinary foods, if their actual effects do not match the publicity, they will undoubtedly harm the legitimate rights and interests of consumers

The “Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Healthy Development of the Food Industry” jointly issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2017 clearly pointed out that in order to improve the supply structure and improve the quality of supply, in the future, evaluation of the health effects of food will be carried out, and the development of infant formula foods, elderly foods and food products will be accelerated in the future.
Functional foods that meet the needs of specific groups of people and carry out application demonstrations
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What are the concepts and definitions of functional foods, whether functional foods can promote health and health functions, and whether functional foods should be included in health food supervision or separate supervision must be clarified as soon as possible

Food is related to people's health and safety on the tip of the tongue.