Functional foods sector looks tasty

CONSUMERS looking for meal solutions that are individual, fast, healthy and tasty are set to give the functional foods sector a major boost in Ireland.

This was predicted yesterday at an Enterprise Ireland workshop in Cork, which was addressed by Julian Mellentin, a world expert and co-author of a best selling book on the industry.

Mr Mellentin, executive director of The Centre for Food and Health Studies in London, said there is no legal or regulatory definition of functional foods.