Functional food products are considered non-specific biological therapies used to promote general well-being, control symptoms and prevent malignant process.

The philosophy behind functional food is to focus on prevention, according to the saying by a Greek physician Hippocrates (known as the father of medicine) who said "let food be thy medicine".

A wide range of functional food has been shown to impose crucial roles in immune status and susceptibility to certain disease states.  Functional food also exhibits disease-modifying indications related to Oxidative Stress including Allergies, Alzheimer's Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, Eye conditions, Parkinson's Disease, Renal Disease, Obesity and many more.