functional beverage

functional beverage (plural functional beverages)

1. A beverage with added functionality or ingredients and consumed for its supposed health benefits.

   Synonym: functional drink

   • 1994, Israel Goldberg, Functional Foods: Designer Foods, Pharmafoods, Nutraceuticals:

     I am referring to the development of a "functional" beverage product (an orange-flavored breakfast drink mix) with which I was associated back in the 1970s.

   • 2003, Tammy Foster, Beverage Quality and Safety:

     According to a recent industry report, the U.S. functional beverage market generated revenues of $4.7 billion in 2000 and is predicted to exceed $12 billion by 2007.

   • 2014, Victor R. Preedy, Coffee in Health and Disease Prevention, page 505:

     Coffee is well poised to act as a functional beverage to improve energy balance regulation through its known effects on EE (caffeine) but also potentially by improving appetite regulation.

   • 2016, Fereidoon Shahidi, Handbook of Functional Beverages and Human Health, page 6:

     In this first step of developing new functional beverage concepts, a total of 12 in-depth interviews and 3 focus groups were conducted to generate consumer information on functional beverages.