RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FUNCTIONAL DRINKS ON THE BASIS OF ARTESIAN WATER AND MEDICINAL PLANT RAW MATERIALS
Health of a person and the society in general is considered as one of the conceptual problems of modern public policy in the health sector as well as an indicator of the Russian national security.Modern strategy "Health for all in the twenty-first century" pays considerable attention to the preservation of quality of life, health promotion and disease prevention. The concept of state policy in the sphere of healthy nutrition for the period up to 2020, adopted by the Russian Government, as a priority objective proposes the creation of conditions for development of domestic production of healthy and functional nutrition."Functional food is a food product for the systematic use in a food diet to all age groups of the healthy population, reducing the risk of developing diseases associated with nutrition, preserving and improving health due to the presence of functional food ingredients in its composition (not less than 15% of the daily physiological needs per a serving product)".Functional food products have a significant effect on several functions of the body or its organs and systems such as maintaining the immune system, metabolic function recovery, and the resulting obesity control weight recovery, prevention of many chronic diseases, recovery of human body performance and finally preservation of health.Functional drinks combine not only high consumer properties (they quench thirst, have a pleasant taste and aroma, in most cases they have low allergenic potency (organic food), but also have additional positive effect on health.The aim of this work is to develop and study special functional drinks based on “Stelmas” artesian water of the first category with optimal balance of functional elements (selenium, up to 0.01 mg/l, zinc - 5 mg/l, iodine - up to 0.125 mg/l, chromium 0.05 mg/l) and medicinal plant raw materials.