Current concepts and prospects of herbal nutraceutical: A review

Baby Chauhan, Gopal Kumar, Nazia Kalam, Shahid H Ansari, Baby Chauhan, Gopal Kumar, Nazia Kalam, Shahid H Ansari

Abstract

Nutraceuticals are food or part of food that provides medical or health benefits including the prevention and/or treatment of a disease. Nutraceutical has advantage over the medicine because they avoid side effect, have naturally dietary supplement, etc. Nutraceutical; on the basis of their natural source, chemical grouping, categories into three key terms -nutrients, herbals, dietary supplements, dietary fiber, etc. The most rapidly growing segments of the industry were dietary supplements (19.5 percent per year) and natural/herbal products (11.6 percent per year). Global nutraceutical market is estimated as USD 117 billion. FDA regulated dietary supplements as foods to ensure that they were safe. In 2006, the Indian government passed Food Safety and Standard Act to regulate the nutraceutical industry. Herbal nutraceutical is used as a powerful instrument in maintaining health and to act against nutritionally induced acute and chronic diseases, thereby promoting optimal health, longevity, and quality of life.

Keywords: Dietary supplement; global market; nutraceutical; regulation.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: Nil.

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Nutraceutical market in different countries

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