How to correctly understand healthcare food and other general food?

Commonalities and differences between healthcare food and general food.

Commonalities:

They all have the primary function of food, which can provide the basic nutrients necessary for human survival, and the second function of food, all of which have specific color, aroma, taste, and shape.

Differences:

(1) Healthcare food contains a certain amount of effective ingredients such as physiological active substances, which can regulate human function and have specific functions, which is called the third function of food; General foods don't emphasize specific functions.

(2) Healthcare food generally has a specific range of consumption, mainly referring to specific groups of people, while general food does not.

Food is concentrated or added with some kind of physiologically active substance with high purity, so that it can reach the concentration to play a role in the human body, thus having the third function of food.

Healthcare food is divided into two categories according to the different consumption objects: one is for healthy people, mainly to supplement nutrients and meet the needs of different stages of the life cycle; the other is mainly for people with certain physiological function problems, emphasizing its Regulatory functions in preventing disease and promoting recovery.