Recently, there has been an increasing interest in health-promoting products which are also natural and safe for consumption because the consumer market has been searching for a healthy lifestyle. This global market trend has driven the food industry to invest in the development of innovative products containing bioactive components. In this review, we focus on presenting the results of the last few years and pioneer publications linking the employment of prebiotic carbohydrates, carotenoids and flavonoids/anthocyanin and enhanced food properties. Several studies in food systems have proposed that these bioactive compounds are promising food ingredients that not only modify and improve the physicochemical and sensorial characteristics of food products, but also improve human health and wellbeing.

近来，人们对天然和消费安全的健康促进产品越来越感兴趣，因为消费市场一直在寻找健康的生活方式。这一全球市场趋势已促使食品行业投资开发含有生物活性成分的创新产品。在这篇综述中，我们着重介绍最近几年的结果，并开创了将益生元碳水化合物，类胡萝卜素和类黄酮/花青素的使用与提高食品性能联系起来的先驱出版物。食品系统中的一些研究表明，这些生物活性化合物是有前途的食品成分，不仅可以改变和改善食品的物理化学和感官特性，而且还可以改善人体健康。