1. Introduction
Chronic diseases prevention has become of great importance for Public Health, research and technology fields, thus one way to do it is through the regular consumption of functional foods. Food usually refers to any product, supplying to an organism, the energy and chemicalsubstances required for a good health. Nutrients are chemical substances in food that an organism uses and transforms in its own tissues to perform basic functions. Some food contains a certain type of chemical substances capable of causing positive effects to promote and restore health. Functional food implies that the food has some kind of identified value that
benefits health, or diminishes the potentiality of disease