What's the difference between the health foods and food, drugs

Sun Jianqin director says, health food is to point to have specific health functions of food, which is suitable for certain people to eat, have the function of regulate the body, not for the purpose of treating diseases, and to the human body does not produce any acute, subacute or chronic harm of food.You can see that the health food is a certain people certain health as the goal of such a special kind of food.It have the strict limit on use.In addition, the health care function, the composition is also different, strong pertinence, there are also indications, through a supplement can to a certain extent, have the effect of improving health, but it is not universal.
Health food ingredient complex, the main raw material is Chinese herbal medicine or Chinese medicine extract or add vitamins, minerals.Some products can be appropriately add ginseng, Chinese wolfberry, chrysanthemum, safflower, etc.;Or join a probiotic bacteria and other bacteria, can rise to adjust the role of the intestinal flora;Or join the function of food ingredients, such as dietary fiber, such as yeast polysaccharide.Or a microorganism, turtle, propolis, bullwhip, snakes, etc.At present the country will be divided into health products enhance immunity function, fall hematic fat, fall blood sugar, improve sleep, increase bone density, regulating intestinal flora and other 27 kinds big.

The material basis for the food is to provide nutrition to the body, its biggest characteristic is regardless of age, gender, men and women, old and young, and no one dose limit.But health food has a certain to adapt to the crowd, certain indications, not everyone to eat.Such as promote the growth and development of health food only for teenagers;Health food regulating blood lipid, blood glucose, blood pressure is only applicable to blood sugar, blood lipids, blood pressure disorders.