**3. Categories of functional food**

Food companies can now use four different types of cases on labeling to transmit medical messages to consumers [14]. As indicated in **Table 2**, these categories include improved commodities, modified and unmodified products, enhanced products, and fortified products [15]:

The understanding that the outcomes of this research knowledge support "assertions," which will be transformed into communications to users, is an apparent inference of investigation and progress in the field of food products. Furthermore, assertions are critical to the creation of functional foods, and there are two types of depictions that are particularly important, Type A and Type B [16].

1.**Type A** - Benefits for improved function:

An enhanced statement (type A) references the good connection between a healthy food pattern and particular physical duties without even implying a direct relationship to a reduction in illness risk. One use of antioxidants is to prevent oxidative stress [17].

2.**Type B** - Appeals for lower disease risk:

An illness risk mitigation claim (type B) refers to the possibility of illness being reduced by ingesting a single or a combination of specified dietary components or food products. The lowering of the risk of cardiovascular disease or cancer is an instance of these assertions. Although it may vary depending on the disease that functional food promised the decreased the risk, demonstrating such benefits remained a tough challenge that may need lengthy tests based on strong hypotheses backed by decent knowledge on the understanding the mechanisms of the impact to be predicted [18].

Those now deployed in clinical trials for medication creation will be required to demonstrate an impact to substantiate claims for humans. Undoubtedly, the majority of this nutrient based on the researchers' key populations are "healthy people" or "ostensibly healthy people," for whom the "usual" (ideally stable) diet will be altered in order to assert a (statically significant, but more pertinently, biologically) significant change in criteria reflective of a state of "excellent health." These paradismfood iseters/ (bio) markers were being identified and, most importantly, verified in the great majority of instances [19].


**Table 2.**

*Functional foods are divided into several categories.*
