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Meaning of functional food | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients.

Equivalents

Español alimento funcional
Suomi täsmäruoka

Examples

“These “functional foods”, which included protein powders and shakes, were branded as sports nutrition and primarily targeted at men.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

functional genomics functional graph functional group functional linguistics functional load functional magnetic resonance imaging

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