Modern Health Observation

At scientific conferences and meetings where the issue is functional foods plus interest from the food industry, which gets very solid starting point for the design and development of this new product.

The interest of the health beneficial role it can play functional food consumption of scientific studies that confirm the existence of a strong relationship between food consumed and population health status, prevention and treatment of specific diseases.

Functional foods

Milk with Omega 3 is an example of functional food, which can be defined as that which changed product has been added or removed one or more ingredients or has modified its chemical structure or the bioavailability of nutrients or a combination of these factors, with the peculiarity that one of its components, whether or not nutrient, affect target functions in the body, a specific and promotes positive physiological or psychological effect beyond its traditional nutritional value.

The positive effect can be both for their contribution to maintaining the state of health and welfare and to reduce the risk of developing a certain disease.

In this particular case, the food industry has created a new product to replace natural fat cow’s milk (saturated fat) for polyunsaturated fat, omega-3 series with recognized health benefits.

Regular consumption of milk with omega 3 fatty acids contributes to the contribution of these acids the body, so it may be an interesting dietary source of these nutrients for fish allergy sufferers, food which is rich in fat, fatty acids, and also cardiovascular prevention diets.

Scientists began to investigate the properties of omega-3 fatty acids as a result of discovering that the Eskimo inhabitants of the island of Greenland had a very low mortality rate from cardiovascular disease.

Was detected in the blood of these Eskimos high levels of omega-3 fatty acids and found that taking a lot of fish. Subsequently endorsed the scientific community with numerous research the veracity of these findings. However, note that omega-3 fatty acids are not only found in oily fish, but we can get them from seed oils (sunflower, corn, soy …) and nuts.