Abstract: Functional food is a means to human has nutrition and health functions of food, is the key point for the 21st century food industry development. With the development of society, people have recognized the importance of diet on health. Under the influence of the basic national policy of family planning, a family there is only one child. “hopes that a son will grow up to be successful”, “hopes for the daughter to grow up into a phoenix” is the world parents' universal point of view, even more requested the modern nutriment to be possible to strengthen babies and infants' resistivity, strengthened the babies and infants physique, had the strong body and spirit to be able a better study, could Cheng Long become the phoenix. Now the technical progress has caused some Functional food possibly to produce into the industrialization.
The article main research on enhancing the immune function food of the development process, safety, functional components as well as including the component functional materials proportion and this food's characteristic, and discusses the related question in the development which enhancing the immune function food, and has the related countermeasure and the market prospect.
Keywords: functional foods; product development; security; market prospects.
