MODERN TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FUNCTIONAL FOOD INDUSTRY IN RUSSIA AND ABROAD

Modern technologies of food production that often lead to losses in the main nutrients of processed raw materials, incorporation into food recipes of large amounts of ingredients, which are sometimes not scientifically substantiated, lead to a necessity to find a new way for increasing the nutritional value of modern products and making them healthier. Functional foods are one of the ways to solve this problem, which have long been of great interest to Russian and international scientific society. The paper presents the information about the history of creation and trends in the development of the functional food industry in Russia and abroad, as well as the materials about the modern directions of designing meat-based functional foods, innovative methods for their production and problems arising in the process of their designing.