**3.1 Functional food: biscuits**

Among various functional foods, biscuits are of having wide range of advantages like a product with less moisture content, easily available, less cost, ready to consume at any time, can be prepared as varieties because of changing the proportion of the major ingredients. Biscuits can be made in wide functionality and nutritional value [21]. Biscuits are rich in cereal and best nutraceutical for delivery health benefits to the consumers in a right proportion. It can be used in the daily diet and improve the health state of human beings [22]. Biscuits can be available in different tastes, and variations also possess prolonged shelf life which suits all age group people [23]. In this review, especially biscuits are covered because of its efficacy and possess good functional properties in **Table 3**.

**Figure 4.** *Risk factors of DM and link of food intake.*


#### *Bioactive Molecules from Medicinal Plants as Functional Foods (Biscuits) for the Benefit… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93352*


#### *Bioactive Compounds in Nutraceutical and Functional Food for Good Human Health*


#### *Bioactive Molecules from Medicinal Plants as Functional Foods (Biscuits) for the Benefit… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93352*

**Table 3.**

*The incorporation of various bioactive molecules from the medicinal plants in the functional food – biscuits.*
