Functional Food - Agaricus Brasil Natural

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Food researchers and industries are pointing, up to now, towards nutritional aspects and improvements in flavor, color, reologic features and other food's physical-chemical features only, to turn it more attractive for consumers. However, nowadays we can see the accelerated development of foods pointing, in addition of those features, towards components or substances playing biologic roles, in order to prevent illnesses and to promote health all over the world. Thus, food industries, mainly in Europe and Japan, have launched products having these functional components. In USA, National Institute of Cancer (INC) developed a project known as "Designer Food" in order to evaluate foods' anti-cancer natural properties. Foods containing those substances or components are denominated Functional Foods.

Agaricus Brasil Natural is an example of Natural Functional Food.