functional beverage

plural functional beverages

1. A beverage with added ingredients, consumed for its supposed health benefits.

   I am referring to the development of a "functional" beverage product (an orange-flavored breakfast drink mix) with which I was associated back in the 1970s.

   1994, Israel Goldberg, Functional Foods: Designer Foods, Pharmafoods, Nutraceuticals

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   According to a recent industry report, the U.S. functional beverage market generated revenues of $4.7 billion in 2000 and is predicted to exceed $12 billion by 2007.

   2003, Tammy Foster, Beverage Quality and Safety

   Coffee is well poised to act as a functional beverage to improve energy balance regulation through its known effects on EE (caffeine) but also potentially by improving appetite regulation.

   2014, Victor R. Preedy, Coffee in Health and Disease Prevention, page 505

   In this first step of developing new functional beverage concepts, a total of 12 in-depth interviews and 3 focus groups were conducted to generate consumer information on functional beverages.

   2016, Fereidoon Shahidi, Handbook of Functional Beverages and Human Health, page 6

   Synonyms: functional drink