What is the difference between health food and nutraceuticals?

In fact, there are some significant differences between health supplements and health foods.

1. Health food has health care function, and health care product is food with characteristic health care function. Health food refers to food with specific functions or for the purpose of supplementing vitamins and minerals, with the function of regulating the body, not for the purpose of **, and does not produce any acute, subacute or chronic harm to the human body, while food generally does not have specific health care functions.

2. Health care products have specific applicable groups, and food is suitable for all peopleHealth food is targeted, for a certain type of people, there are applicable groups and non-applicable groups, while food is generally not targeted and applicable to all groups.

3. There is no limit on the amount of consumption, there is a limit on the amount of health care products when they are generally eaten, but there is no limit on food. There are limits on the amount of health food that can be consumed, while there are generally no restrictions on food.

4. Different health products should have the unique mark of health food approved by the Ministry of Health - Little Blue Cap, and the food should have the "QS" food safety mark.

5. Certificates to be held for operationDifferent merchants must hold a license issued by the Food and Drug Administration for the sale of health care products, and food business operators need to obtain a food circulation license for pre-sale packaged food.

Health food can be found through the food and drug supervision and administration network approval number, and there is a special mark: blue hat. Health care with a certain function.

There are three major differences between health supplements and nutritional products, which are as follows:

The first is the difference between the applicable groups.

Due to their different health care functions, health care products are only suitable for specific groups of people to improve or regulate a certain body function. Nutrition is the daily requirement of the general public.

Of course, it is also necessary to add a concept here, that is, generally healthy people, including the elderly and healthy, need to supplement basic nutrients every day, but if you are pregnant, lactating or taking medication and other special circumstances, the intake of certain nutrients must be controlled, and you should consult a nutritionist or relevant specialist.

The second is the difference in functionality.

Health care products have specific health care functions or for the purpose of supplementing vitamins and minerals, which can regulate the body's immunity and body functions, and some health care products can also alleviate diseases or have certain effects on the maintenance after diseases.

Nutrients do not have a special health care function, but they contain nutrients that the human body needs to take in every day, which is a necessary factor to maintain the healthy functioning of the body, and a lack or too much of it will lead to diseases.

Finally, there is the morphological difference.

The form and dosage form of health care products are capsules, tablets, oral liquids, powders, teas, pills, ointments and other dosage forms similar to medicines.

Nutritional products are mostly fruits, melons, vegetables, meat and other foods that are common in daily life, and there are also powders, oral liquids and other forms specially developed by scientific proportions.

General food and health food are both related and different, and their common point is that as a health food or general food, it must first be food and must have the basic characteristics of food, that is, it should be non-toxic, harmless, and meet the nutritional and health requirements that should be there. The main differences between the two are:

1) Health food contains a certain amount of functional ingredients (physiologically active substances), which can regulate the functions of the human body and have specific health care functions (the third function of food), while general foods do not emphasize specific functions (the third function of food). 2) Health food is designed for a specific group of people, and generally has a specific range of consumption, while general food does not have a specific range of consumption. (3) Health food must be approved and registered by the competent national authority, while general food does not need to be approved and registered by the competent national authority.

4) Health food only has one or several health care functions, and cannot provide various nutrients required by the human body, let alone use health food as the main way of various nutrients. In general food, it also contains physiologically active substances, but due to the low content, it cannot reach the concentration of regulating function in the human body, and cannot achieve the efficacy. The physiologically active substances in health food are extracted, separated, concentrated (or added with a certain physiologically active substance with high purity) to achieve a concentration in the human body, so as to have the third function of food.

1. Applicable groups of people are different. Health foods have specific effects and are suitable for specific groups of people. General nutritional products do not have specific functions and do not have a specific range of people to eat.

2. The ingredients contained are different. Health food contains a certain amount of functional ingredients that can regulate the functions of the human body. Nutraceuticals have no functional ingredients and mainly supplement the body's energy and needs.

3. The scope of the concept is different. Health care products include not only food, but also cosmetics and daily necessities, such as fitness equipment, massagers, water magnetizers, and fragrance bags. Nutrition products are mainly food products that people eat.

The main difference between health products and health foods is the difference in formula, edible object, edible purpose and safety.

Health care products are a kind of food, which has the commonality of general food, can regulate the functions of the human body, and is suitable for specific groups of people to eat, but not for the purpose of ** disease. Health care products are generally advertised as foods with specific functions or for the purpose of supplementing vitamins and minerals, and have the function of regulating the body.

The target audience is different: health food is suitable for all peopleHealth care products have specific applicable groups, that is, targeted, for a certain type of people, there are suitable groups of people and non-applicable groups, while food is generally not targeted and applicable to all groups.

There is no limit on consumption: Health products generally have a limit on the amount when they are consumed, but food products do not.

However, some ordinary foods are added with substances that are both food and medicine, and it is not appropriate to eat too much. Although health food is food, some health food is no longer in the form of traditional food, and there are many products in the form of capsules, tablets and oral liquids.

First of all, nutrition is nutritious food, "nutrition" is nutrients, and nutrition is to maintain the normal reproduction, growth, development and survival of living organisms, and all other life activities and processes. Generally, it is necessary to ingest substances from the external environment and participate in the synthesis of the body.

In the past, we obtained nutrients by eating a lot of food in order to meet the body's minimum need for survival. But there are many types of nutrients from food, which are roughly classified into seven categories:

1. Protein 2, Fat 3, Carbohydrate 4, Mineral 5, Water 6, Vitamin 7, Dietary Fiber.

The seven nutrients that the body needs are like the sun, and everything depends on the sun for growth and survival, and without nutrients, the body cannot survive. However, the various nutrients that the human body needs are mainly obtained from three meals a day, but the energy we get from the three meals is far from insufficient and incomplete, and even only to maintain the minimum needs of the living body, so it is necessary to take natural nutrients directly to meet the basic needs of our body.

As the saying goes, "three points of treatment and seven points of nourishment", nourishment is nutrition, nourishment can cure the root cause, and medicine is the symptomatic. In reality, there are many diseases caused by the lack of nutrition and the aging of various organs can not work normally), the survival of all things is inseparable from sunlight, can not be separated from nutrients, of course, nutrients are not medicines, but the necessary food nutrition for life, such as: milk is rich in protein, fat, calcium and other substances, its nutritional value is very high, everyone needs it, everyone is suitable to drink.

Note: Of course, nutrients are divided into: pure natural and biochemical synthetic, and I am talking about pure natural both here

Naturally extracted without added artificial flavors, colors or preservatives. It depends on the manufacturer's equipment, production process and enterprise integrity; There is also a kind of biochemical synthesis and chemical structure generation, and it is not a natural ...... that is very harmful to the human body

Nutritional supplements ≠ health supplements.

Health care products: Health care products are health foods with specific health care functions (functional products), which belong to the category of food, and health care products are the popular term for health food. Health food has the commonality of general food, can regulate the function of the human body, only suitable for specific groups of food, its nutritional value is not necessarily high!

I'll say one more formula here: health = nutrition minus medicine.

The absence of pain does not mean healthy ......For example, when immunity is low or lack of immunity, your body will not be able to feel the manifestation of pain and the body to make intelligent performances, [such as: allergies, acne on the surface of the skin (from the body to the surface), colds, sneezing, coughing, etc., which are all manifestations of the body's immunity], so no symptoms do not mean that you are healthy.

Nutrients are not health products, and they are not medicines!