A combination of ``nutrition`` and ``pharmaceutical``, nutraceuticals are food products that may provide health and medical benefits. The idea of nutraceuticals is not a new concept. In fact the ancient Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, and Sumerians used foods as medicine to treat and prevent disease. It was Hippocrates, considered to be the father of Western medicine, who said Let food be thy medicine. Modern technology has advanced the nutraceutical industry, allowing us to separate the beneficial chemical components derived from plants, food, and microbial sources, to provide increased health and medicinal benefits.