What are nutritional supplements?
The term nutritional supplements refers to vitamins, minerals, and other food components that are used to support good health and treat illness. For example, plant compounds known as phytochemicals (found abundantly in tomatoes and soybeans) have powerful disease-battling properties. While it’s possible to successfully incorporate nutrients into your diet alone, supplementation can help maintain sufficient levels and produce specific desired effects. For example, supplementation with vitamin E has been shown to provide protection against coronary atherosclerosis, and zinc supplementation has been shown to reduce the duration of the common cold and decrease the incidence of acute diarrhea in children.
Food additives are special substances added to food products to give them the necessary properties.
Food additives are added to the product at the stages of processing, production, storage, packaging and transportation. In many ways, these can be vitamins or nutrients that will make your product better.
The purposes of introducing a food additive into a product may be:
– obtaining a taste or aroma;
– giving color;
– the formation of consistency;
– increasing the shelf life.
– add vitamins, minerals
