Fortified Foods
Nine Super-Nutritious Foods - Forbes.com
The term “functional food” has no legal definition. While it has long referred to fare beneficial to a person’s health, such as broccoli, it’s increasingly used to refer to designer foods or ones that have been modified to incorporate nutrients they wouldn’t normally contain for a specific health purpose. A box of pasta with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids–normally found in fish–is a prime example.And consumers, who are swimming in information about the relationships between foods or their ingredients and disease risks, are eating them up.
We go for getting nutrition direct from the natural source when possible. But in the end, are fortified foods really any different from taking a vitamin supplement?