"functional food" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: functional foods [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} functional food (plural functional foods)
  1. Any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients Translations (health-promoting food): terveysvaikutteinen elintarvike (Finnish), alimento funcional [masculine] (Galician), alimento funcional [masculine] (Spanish), mervärdesmat [common-gender] (Swedish), nyttomat [common-gender] (Swedish), bwyd gweithredus [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-functional_food-en-noun-qjKBVoQf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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