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The term “dietary supplement” defines a comprehensive and diverse category of products that are essential to
our health but those are absent or insufficient into the diet that may be needed to take separately, requirement of dietary
supplements are varies at different stages of life such as infant, child-adult, pregnancy, lactation, and geriatrics. Dietary
supplements are not medicines, nor should they be considered a substitute for food. USFDA defines dietary supplements in
part as a product taken by mouth that contains a “dietary ingredients.” Nutritional ingredients comprise vitamins, minerals,
amino acids, and herbs or botanicals, in addition to other substances that can be considered to supplement the diet. The
market flooded with various dosage forms of dietary supplements such as capsules, tablets, powders, energy bars, liquids,
etc. These include Vitamin, Mineral, Herbal Products containing extracts from herbs as well as algae and fungi, Concentrate,
metabolite, constituent, or extract, Enzyme supplement, Essential amino, and fatty acids. This chapter describes the
importance of the dietary supplement, source, disease arises by deficiency, and recommended dose for different groups.