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The importance of functional food is already well established as it has become an integral part in treating various ailments, as well as, improving overall health and well-being.  The biologically active components in these foods are considered to be responsible for the therapeutic effects. As people are getting more conscious about healthy living, the demands of functional foods are increasing as a result, the need for more research and development of new ingredients which has higher accuracy and safety is increasing as well. However, the complete utilization of these bioactive components are not achieved hence application of nanotechnology is included which helps in more bioavailability of these components due to efficient delivery of bioactive ingredients, encapsulation of nutrients and others. Moreover, the researchers have moved to a technological innovation, which is the utilization of intelligence of the machine, such as the Artificial Intelligence (AI), as assistance in creating new bioactive components. This process acts as a predictive model in innovation of new components by the use of bioinformatics. It is considered to be a useful tool as it helps in understanding the concepts of already existing nutrients, at the same time in discovery of new components from functional ingredients and their exact mechanism of action in target site to prevent diseases safely and efficiently. Hence, this chapter discusses how the synergistic use of Nano intelligence in functional food has brought a development in the food, health and nutrition sector.