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Drug and food from natural origin play a significant role in public health care system of any nation. The search for specific constituents of plant, animals, minerals and microbial origin which are beneficial to our mental and physical has caused coining of terminology such as nutraceuticals, cosmaceuticals, dermaceuticals, phytochemicals, phytonutrients, phytonutrients, phytofoods, pharmafoods, designer foods or functional foods. The term nutraceuticals and functional foods are broad terms describing foods, food ingredients or dietary supplements that demonstrate specific health or medical benefits including the prevention and treatment of disease beyond basic nutritional functions. Nutraceuticals, in contrast to pharmaceuticals, are substances, which usually have not patent protection. Both pharmaceutical and nutraceutical compounds might be used to cure or prevent diseases. The term nutraceutical was coined in 1989 by Stephen De Felico former chairman of the foundation for innovation in medicine an American organization. Which encourage medical health research?
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Dr. Anuj Malik, M.pharm (Pharmazie), Ph.D. ist außerordentlicher Professor am M.M. College of Pharmacy, M.M. (Deemed to be University), Mullana, Ambala, Haryana. Er verfügt über eine Erfahrung von mehr als 11 Jahren. Sein Fachgebiet und Interesse gilt der Lehre. Er hat mehr als 30 internationale und nationale Veröffentlichungen mit Schwerpunkt auf Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln veröffentlicht.
