What is a Nutrient?

What is a Nutrient?

What is a Nutrient?
Defining the Food-Drug Continuum

The emergence of dietary supplements and functional foods has raised questions about the definition of the word nutrient. For example, is lycopene in processed tomato products a nutrient?

What is a Nutrient? Defining the Food-Drug Continuum is a 87-page book that begins with a history of nutrient discovery by Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D., director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University. It then deals with the scientific and regulatory distinctions between foods and drugs--with focus on functional foods. Please click here to download a copy of the conference proceedings.

TABLE OF CONTENTS (in part)

OPENING SESSION

Keynote: An Historical Perspective, Irwin H. Rosenberg, M.D.

DEFINING THE FOOD-DRUG CONTINUUM

Scott Bass, Esq., Walter H. Glinsmann, M.D.,
Steven H. Zeisel, Ph.D., and Joseph A. Levitt, Esq.

ARE FOOD COMPONENTS NUTRIENTS?

Paul Talalay, M.D., and Tatu Miettinen, M.D.

ROUND TABLE FORUM

An Expanded Definition of Nutrients, John A. Milner, Ph.D.