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functional beverage

noun

Definitions

  1. A beverage with added ingredients, consumed for its supposed health benefits.

    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA