Abstract
AbstractModern biotechnology has played a significant role in human welfare in a more sustainable way. In the past two decades, biotechnology has improved agriculture, medicine, environment and food industries. Biotechnology has enhanced the quality, shelf life, nutrition, processing and production of food. Functional foods have a great potential to address hidden hunger, i.e. a lack of micronutrients. Functional food not only possesses nutrition but also shows disease curing properties. Hence, functional food contributes towards the problem of global hunger and human health. There is a requirement to scale in food and nutrition by using different biotechnological techniques. The present chapter investigates and explores modern biotechnological tools in functional food as well as contribute to future perspectives where modern biotechnological techniques can be utilized for improving functional food. This chapter also explores the interrelationship between food, nutrition and techniques in biotechnology.KeywordsFunctional foodsBiofortificationFermentationBiotechnology
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