Diet & Health Products Groups and Categories
DIET & HEALTH PRODUCTS SELECTION
Products in this category must be clearly distinguishable from food for normal consumption and be recognised as such and/or bear nutrition or health claims on their label.
In assessing these products, particular attention will be drawn by the Monde Selection jury to the scientific substantiation of the claim(s) by taking into account the totality of the available scientific data and by weighing the evidence.
If you have any questions, please contact us at info@monde-selection.com
FOOD SUPPLEMENTS DH.1.1 – FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
Food supplements mean foodstuffs of which the purpose is to supplement the normal diet and which are concentrated sources of nutrients or other substances with a nutritional or physiological effect, alone or in combination, marketed in dose form (capsules, pastilles, pills, sachets of powder...) designed to be taken in measured small unit quantities.
FOODSTUFFS FOR PARTICULAR NUTRITIONAL USES DH.2.1 – INFANT FORMULAE AND FOLLOW-ON FORMULAE
DH.2.2 – PROCESSED CEREAL-BASED FOODS AND BABY FOODS FOR INFANTS
AND YOUNG CHILDREN
DH.2.3 – FOOD INTENDED FOR USE IN ENERGY-RESTRICTED DIETS FOR WEIGHT
REDUCTION
DH.2.4 – DIETARY FOODS FOR SPECIAL MEDICAL PURPOSES
DH.2.5 – FOODS INTENDED TO MEET THE EXPENDITURE OF INTENSE MUSCULAR
EFFORT, ESPECIALLY FOR SPORTSMEN
DH.2.6 – FOODS FOR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM
DISORDERS (diabetes)
DH.2.7 – OTHERS (please specify on the product registration form)
Foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses are foodstuffs which are clearly distinguishable from foodstuffs for normal consumption and which are suitable for their claimed nutritional purposes.
FUNCTIONAL FOODS & DRINKS A food can be considered as functional if together with the basic nutritional impact, it is satisfactorily demonstrated to affect beneficially one or more target functions in the human body, thus improving the general state of health and well-being and/or decreasing the risk of the evolution of disease.
Functional foods must remain in the form of normal foods and they must demonstrate their effects in amounts, that can normally be expected to be consumed in the diet.
They are not pills or capsules….., but part of a normal food pattern.
DH.3.1 – ENRICHED FOODS & DRINKS
Enriched foods & drinks : food with additional nutrients (e.g. fruit juices fortified with vitamin C, energy drinks with specific health claims...) or other substances (e.g. margarine with plant sterol esters, cholesterol lowering drinks...) or food in which one of the compenents has been naturally enhanced through special growing conditions, new feed composition, genetic engineering or otherwise (e.g. eggs with increased ω-3 content achieved by altered chicken feed)
DH.3.2 – ALTERED FOODS & DRINKS
Altered foods & drinks : food from which a deleterious component has been removed, reduced or replaced with another substance with beneficial effects (e.g. fibers as fat releasers)
DH.3.3 – OTHERS (Drink vinegars, barley leaves juices: please specify on the
product registration form)
