A REVIEW ON NUTRACEUTICALS

Abstract

-Their alleged safety has drawn much interest into nutraceuticals. Nutraceuticals include any nourishment or portion of nourishment with therapeutic or medicinal benefits including anticipation of infection or infection treatment. The Nutraceuticals help fight with certain important health problems of the century namely obesity, cardiovascular (CVS) diseases, cancer, osteoporosis, joint pain, tremor, diabetes, atherosclerosis, cholesterol, etc. They are superior to the pharmaceutics because the fastest growing segments in the market included supplements (19.5% annually), as well as natural and herbal products (11.6% annually). As its projected, worldwide nutraceutical market will amount up to $ 406.8 billion by 2024. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) modulated dietary supplements as foods to make sure that they were safe. The Government of India enacted a Nourishment Security and Standard Act in 2006 to control of the nutraceutical industries. The home grown nutraceutical is used as an important tool towards sustaining health and fight off nutritionally caused acute and chronic disease, thus increasing good health life span and quality of life [1] . This review has put a question and demand for compliance with established proven eating models, development of new non-traditional nutraceuticals functional foods & food supplements with fresh well-being effects, disclosure means of their functioning in order to define a comprehensive image of the concept. This review will distribute as a tool for comparison of the future developments in nutraceutical research [2] .