The concept is different:
1. Ordinary food:
Ordinary food refers to various finished products and raw materials for human consumption or drinking. Human beings absorb various nutrients from it to meet the sensory needs of color, aroma, taste and shape.
2. Health food
Health food is a food that claims to have certain health functions but does not mean to cure diseases, and will not cause acute, subacute or chronic harm to the human body.
The Chinese health food industry generally divides them into two categories:
1) dietary supplements;
2) Functional health food.
3. Medicines
Medicines refer to substances that are used to prevent and treat human diseases, purposefully regulate human physiological functions, and have indications or functional indications, usage and dosage.
Different uses:
1. Ordinary food:
Ordinary food provides energy and nutrients for the human body and maintains the normal metabolism of the human body.
2. Health food
Health food aims to regulate human body functions, emphasizing that products have health functions, such as assisting in lowering blood sugar, supplementing vitamins and minerals, etc.
3. Medicines
Medicines are mainly used for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
Formula is different
1. Ordinary food:
Ordinary food has nutrients and is non-toxic and harmless.
2. Health food
A. Contain functional ingredients or iconic ingredients, which will not cause any toxic and side effects to the human body under the prescribed daily dosage.
B.Ordinary food raw materials, new food raw materials, substances that are both food and traditional Chinese medicinal materials according to tradition (referred to as dual-use substances for food and medicine), etc. can be used in healthy food.
3. Medicines
Medicines are rich in active ingredients, which are allowed to have certain toxic and side effects under the prescribed dosage.
The method of use and dosage is different
1. Ordinary food:
Ordinary food is only taken orally, and there is no prescribed dosage
2. Health food
Health food is only taken orally, and the daily consumption amount is clearly stipulated
3. Medicines
Drugs are used in a variety of ways, including oral, injection, smear, etc. The amount is limited, follow the doctor's advice
Dosage forms are different
1. Ordinary food:
Ordinary food conforms to the forms that various ordinary foods should have, such as candy, chocolate, beverages, pastries, etc.
2. Health food
Common dosage forms of healthy food include tablets, capsules, oral liquids, granules, etc., as well as some common food forms.
3. Medicines
The main forms of medicines are tablets, capsules, injections, pills, external paints, external ointments, etc.
From the comparison of the above aspects, it can be seen that healthy food belongs to the food category, and it is essentially different from drugs in terms of the purpose of use and product safety. Medicines are used to prevent or treat diseases, but food cannot claim any effect on preventing or treating diseases; medicines are allowed to have certain toxic side effects on the human body, but food cannot bring any acute, subacute or chronic harm to the human body.
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