A product intended to complement the diet and may contain vitamins, minerals, an amino acid, or botanicals is called what?

• A. Dietary supplement
• B. Probiotic
• C. Drug
• D. Functional food

Answer: (A)

Products intended to complement the diet by adding nutrients like vitamins, minerals, an amino acid, or botanicals are dietary supplements. They are designed to supplement what you get from food, filling potential nutrient gaps or providing concentrated forms of nutrients in pills, capsules, powders, or liquids. A probiotic is a specific type of dietary supplement focused on live microorganisms for gut health, but the overall category described fits dietary supplements. A drug is used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease and is regulated differently; a functional food is a normal food with an added health benefit but remains a food, not a supplement. So the best term for this description is dietary supplement.