Question: When you say create a functional food how do you plan to do it?

Hao Shi answered on 8 Nov 2022:

Functional foods, their functionality comes from the functional ingredients that we add to our food, usually something that has a physiological activity. You can think of it as the active ingredient in medicine, but the active ingredient is naturally edible.

So the first step is to figure out what we want, what physiological function we need this food for, and what disease. For example, if we need to improve cognitive function in people with Alzheimer’s disease, we can turn to lutein, a natural yellow pigment.

The second step is to add the selected functional ingredients to the appropriate food carrier. Because different functional components have different solubility in food, it is important to choose the right food carrier.

Finally, we need to determine and control the effect of the added functional ingredients on the original flavor of the food.
This is the basic process of developing a functional food.

I hope I answered your question.