Definition of "nutraceutical" []

• A food or naturally occurring food supplement thought to have a beneficial effect on human health. (noun)

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• "However, the term nutraceutical as commonly used in marketing has no regulatory definition (2)."
• "Update: Meg sez, Coke's not making a skin cream, it is a 'nutraceutical' beverage to be called Lumae."
• "The term "nutraceutical" was coined from "nutrition" and "pharmaceutical" in 1989 by Stephen DeFelice, MD, founder and chairman of the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine (FIM), Cranford, NJ (1) According to DeFelice, nutraceutical can be defined as, "a food (or part of a food) that provides medical or health benefits, including the prevention and/or treatment of a disease" (1)."