Research progress in bioactivities of the bitter compounds in functional foods and their bitter taste masking technology

With the economic development and improvement of living standards, life quality and health level has highly attracted attentions.The functional foods are the important trend of food industry in the 21 Century.According to a large number of research results, some bitter compounds that are commonly used in functional foods, chemical structure and their bioactivities were expounded.The mechanism of bitter formation were also discussed, the bitter taste masking technology in the functional foods were mainly reviewed.