Abstract:Diet has a crucial impact on human health, and therefore, reasonable nutrition and balanced diet are the foundation for disease prevention and health maintenance. Currently, we are still faced with problems such as insufficient nutritional regulation, imbalanced dietary structure, and lack of health-care products. There is an upward trend in the incidence of diet-related chronic diseases. This article reviewed the current development status of functional foods and dietary health from three aspects: residents' concerns about nutrition and health, regulatory policies for functional foods, and the regulatory role of functional foods on nutrition and health. The existing problems of functional food industry and the future development trends of the nutrition and health industry in China were also summarized.
