General Considerations in the Rational Design of Functional Foods

This chapter discusses the essential considerations in nutraceutical and functional food research and development and gives an overall picture of nutraceutical and functional food research and development and how different disciplines may be applied and integrated to accomplish nutraceutical and functional food research or development. This chapter also discusses selected important challenges related to the topic, such as how to understand the conflicting results obtained from in vitro and in vivo bioactivity evaluations.