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and meat products with a negative health utilizing or emphasizing such tertiary func-
image. This regrettable image of meat is tions are regarded as “functional foods.”
mainly due to its content of fat, saturated Although there has been extensive
fatty acids, and cholesterol, and their associa- research and development of functional
tion with chronic diseases, such as cardiovas- foods in the dairy industry (Chandan 2007;
cular diseases, some types of cancer, and Chandan and Shah 2007), little attention has
obesity (Chan 2004; Ovesen 2004a, 2004b; been paid to functional meat products until
Fernández-Ginés et al. 2005; Valsta et al. recently. However, efforts have been directed
2005). Also, intake of sodium chloride from in recent years to research of functional meat
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