title: EU-funded research on functional foods.
abstract: Research on food and nutrition has been an important topic in all Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development of the European Commission. From the Second Framework Programme (ECU 2 million for four projects on functional foods) to the Fifth Framework Programme (51 million for thirty-three projects on functional foods), the investment in research projects on functional foods has been increasing by quite an extent. In the early 1990s, the topics were fibres, pro-, pre- and synbiotics. Nowadays, the range of subjects has been broadened to antioxidative effects, vitamins, phyto-oestrogens and the socio-economic area.
authors.affiliation: Health, Food and Environment (E.2), Research DG, European Commission, SDME 8-32, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium. jurgen.lucas@cec.eu.int
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lucas
mesh_terms: D005062:European Union; D058870:Food, Organic; D006801:Humans; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D012109:Research Support as Topic