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NUTRITION AND FUNCTIONAL FOOD FOR HEALTHY AGING Eating is the most pleasure And also, some elderly who have different requirements occurred time in life. Being healthy in old congenital diseases might require by elderly people. age is required beneficial diet special dietary. Therefore, following the nutrition flags. innovation food should focus on Silver Food market is Comparing to other group of functional food that can satisfy booming! population, elderly needs all these requirements including easy The demand for elderly food is nutrients but less energy. When to eat, swallow and digest while expanding rapidly in parallel with people are getting older, they having good taste and consist of the increasing of senior population might lose their appetites and full nutrients including high quality around the world. Also, many struggle with eating disorders due of protein, complex carbohydrates, seniors concern more about to the reduction of eating ability unsaturated fat, vitamins, minerals nutritional deficiency and such as swallowing difficulty, and phytochemical. The food consequent ailments causing by digestion and chewing problems. industry is changing due to having not enough nutrition. In An Aging Population: Opportunities for Emerging Markets 2025, the global silver food demand to meet nutritional are popular among senior citizens market is expected to exceed requirements of the elderly. In and healthcare sectors as they are USD18 billion, growing from Asia, the silver food market easy to eat, digest and swallow USD13.4 billion in 2018 or about revenue was more than USD 4.3 which are suitable for elderly and 4.7% growth at CAGR, according billion in 2018 and it is forecasted patients with dysphagia as it can to Global Market Insight. The to rise due to the booming trend minimize chocking and inhaling major silver food market is in in consuming supplementary food into the lungs. In the past, Europe which is likely to reach products of elderly in China, elder’s foods were usually in the USD 6 billion by 2025. This Japan and South Korea. Here is form of blended texture and so, caused by the raising in senior the example of functional food for not appetizing. The appearance population in developed countries elderly that are booming in the of the meals affects the mental like Germany, France and Italy. food market. health of elderly thus, there are Moreover, their governments also many ongoing research and support by spending government Texture modified foods and innovation focusing on the expenditure on healthcare in the ready to eat meals for elders development of new food product region and also augment product The texture-modified foods for the elderly that look ways elderly food. Innovation food for ingredients with various health elderly is considered as a new benefits to serve the demand in opportunity and a new challenge elderly and hospital. After of Thailand’s food industry. researching and developing, CPF Thailand has strong potential for launched an innovative food developing and producing foods called Smart Soup which comes that are suitable for elderly as with choices of flavors, easy and it has rich of natural resources, ready to eat. It is suitable for agriculture commodities, skilled elderly and patients who have less workforce, lower labor cost and ability to chew and swallow safely be able to do a year-round or who are being fed by feeding farming. And considering as tube. According to Ramathibodi “The kitchen of the world” is Hospital, normally the hospital what Thailand has been called in has to import blended diets for the past several decades. Food patients from other countries industries are considering as the which are costly and have to go country’s main source of income. through melting process before Thailand is one of the largest food feeding which wastes of times. exporters in the global market and So, the development of smart the second in Asia. The industry soup provides more convenient contributed about USD 102 billion as it can be directly used with the in 2017 which was approximately feeding tube which can reduce 23% of the total country’s GDP. the chance of contamination. The company plans to add elderly Smart Soup by the joining foods to become a new range of of CPF and Mahidol University products and export them over In Thailand, the big food 30 countries worldwide especially company like Charoen Pokphan China, US and Britain. By Foods (CPF) joins with Mahidol developing innovative foods for University to study on innovative elderly, the company expects to foods under the “Smart Food” increase its revenue by 10 - 12% concept that contains natural to 130 billion baht in 2019. nicer than blended foods. Texture modified foods is one of the famous choices among seniors and hospitals as there is no need to waste of time chopping vegetable and meat in small pieces. It offers variety of special diet meals suitable for patients or elderly which beyond the staple steamed-fish- and-porridge meal. Elderly Food as a New Source of Income for Food Industry The increasing in aging population around the world affect the growth in demand of
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