Development of Scientifically-based Approaches to the Design of Food Products for Herodietic Purposes

The study conducted a detailed analysis and provides data on the demographic situation in the world, as well as in the Russian Federation, concluded that the trend of rapid aging. Nutrition refers to the most important factors of the influence of the external environment on the state of health, working capacity and life expectancy of a person. For this reason, every person needs high-quality and specialized nutrition that will fill all the needs of the body in nutrients, namely proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral elements. This scientific article analyzes and systematizes approaches to ensuring the nutritional needs of people of older age groups and recommends ratios in the composition of diets according to gender and age characteristics. The standards of energy and nutritional requirements for various groups of the population are analyzed. The problems associated with the development of the production of products for the elderly are investigated and promising directions of their production are established. It is determined that the most social problem for the elderly is providing the body with biologically and physiologically valuable substances, in particular macro - and microelements, vitamins, essential amino acids, the presence and ratio of which has a significant impact on the processes of metabolism and assimilation by the body.