Essay on Future of nutrition
Introduction
The increasing concern for health and nutrition as well as the need for sustainability, has created progress in food science with the likes of functional food and smart protein. Sdditional these are believed tо be dе facto nеbulous concepts which would address human health malnutrition and concerns of the environment. Functional foods go beyond meeting the dietary еnеrgу nееds of pеoplе as well as providing health prometing strategies and senors in diet smart proteins seek to fill the gap of eco friendly as well as healthy protein alternatives to meat.

Functional Food: Managing Disease with Nutritional Approach

Functional foods have been described as foods which offer extra health benefit and are over and above the normal meal provision. They include nutraceuticals, which elicit biological effects on the body systems, improve health and lower the risk of diseases. Such foods usually have extraneous components like vitamins, minerals, probiotics or antioxidants which are to be used in remedying the situation.

Examples of Functional Foods:

Fortified Foods: These are types of breakfast cereals which have been supplemented with vitamins and minerals.

Oats: they are high in bеt

Functional Foods and Their Benefits:
• Chronic Disease Prevention,
• Probiotics and Prebiotics
• Mental and Physical Health
Smart Protein: The term ″Smart proteins″ encompasses new protein sources that has been developed to fulfil the increasing need for a sustainable and healthy alternative of vast spread animal-derived or conventional plant-based products. Current concerns that surround the environmental burden of traditional meat includes: animal feed and water, land use for pasture or crop cultivation along with transportation emissions from slaughterhouse to store. Smart proteins present a fine solution —high-quality protein— without these associated issues. Development stage–smart proteins are undergoing commercial development.

Benefits of Smart Protein:

Not only are the smart proteins good for you but have a variety of other benefits as well. If we take an environmental standpoint, traditional livestock farming contributes to greenhouse gases by 14.5 %De facto deforestation and water usage is common also with respectanimals used for their meat production. Smart proteins, especially plant-based and lab-cultured ones can be environmentally-friendly-way in order to decrease that high level of carbon production during the food-growing.

Conclusion: the creation of functional foods and smart proteins is a paradigm change in the food industry as it is a response to the increasing urge by consumers to seek healthy alternatives and the need for reasonable foods for rather healthy production on the one hand and on the other there are both the perception and challenges of cost and accessibility as well as the level of acceptance from the consumers. , These functional foods and smart proteins, while both will enable better health and cause less damage to the environment, there have been barriers such as cost barrier, availability barrier, and stigma. In conclusion, consumers’ and business understanding concerning health promoting functional foods and smart proteins is critical to further development of beneficial products for healthy living and fair world.

Venkatesh kanna

University/College name : Sankaralingam bhuvaneshwari college of pharmacy