Health claims, options for dietary fibre

Dietary Fibre: bio-active carbohydrates for food and feed

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 27-38

  Schaafsma, G ^a  

^a Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Nutrition   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

functional foods; health claims; scientific evidence; systems biology; validated biomarkers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85199652460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/9789086866625_003     Document Type: Chapter

References (8)

1. Burkitt, D.P. and H.C. Trowell, 1975. Refined carbohydrate foods and disease. Some implications for dietary fibre. Academic Press, London.
2. Mollet, B. and I. Rowland, 2002. Functional foods: at the frontier between food and pharma. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 13 483-485.
3. Commission of the European Communities, 2003. Draft proposal for a regulation of the European parliament and of the council on nutrition and health claims made on food.
4. Diplock, A.T., P.J. Aggett, M. Ashwell, F. Bornet, E.B. Bern and M.B. Roberfroid, 1999. Scientific concepts of functional foods in Europe: Concensus document. Br. J. Nutr. 81, suppl. Nr. 1.
5. Directorate General Health and Consumer Protection (SANCO D4) European Commission, 2002. Discussion paper on nutrition claims and functional claims. http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/index_en.htm.
6. Frewer, 2002. Lecture presented at the Leatherhead Food RA Functional Foods 2002 Congress, The Hague Congress Centre, The Netherlands.
7. Institute of Medicine, 2002. Food and Nutrition Board, Dietary Reference Intakes. Energy, carbohydrate, fiber, fat, fatty acids, cholesterol, protein, and amino acids. National Academy press, Washington, DC, 2002.
8. Van Ommen, B. and R. Stierum, 2002. Nutrigenomics: exploiting systems biology in the nutrition and health area. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 13 517-521.