中國的保健食品(health food)市場首次出現(xiàn)于20世紀80年代。 保健食品是指具有特定保健功能或補充維生素或礦物質(zhì)的食品。保 健食品適用于特定人群消費，具有調(diào)節(jié)人體功能的效果，但不用于治療疾病的目的。保健食品有兩種。一種是具有特定保健功能的食品， 另外一種是營養(yǎng)補充劑。
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China’s health food market first emerged in the 1980s. Health food refers to food products which claim to have specific health functions or supplement one’s vitamins or minerals. Health food is suitable for the consumption by specific groups of people and has the effect of regulating human body functions, but is not used for the purpose of treating diseases. There are two kinds of health food. One is food with specific health func¬tions, the other is nutritional supplements.
