To Nutraceuticals and Back: Rethinking a Concept

The concept of nutraceuticals as pharma-foods comes fromfar. This termismade fromthe two words "nutrient" and "pharmaceutical", was coined by Stephen DeFelice, and is defined as "a food or part of a food that provide medical or health benefits, including the prevention and/or treatment of a disease" [...].

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Foods

• Publication date

  2017-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.3390/foods6090074PMID 28872585PMCID 5615286
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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