en public specific editorial article <div><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Foods and nutrients in them are one of the most important and variable factors affecting the bioavailability and function of oral drugs in the body</span></span></span></span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">. Foods affect the effectiveness of drugs in different ways. Just as medications often reduce the absorption of nutrients, foods often reduce the effectiveness of medications; food in the stomach delays the absorption of penicillin and amoxicillin and antihypertensive drugs, such as captopril</span></span></span></span></div> Food, Nutrition, Drugs, beverage, Interaction 265 267 http://jnfs.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-123-23&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ameneh Marzban 0000-0002-8111-3319 No Department of Health in Disasters and Emergencies, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Abdolrazagh Marzban marzban86@gmail.com 0000-0002-2027-8910 Yes Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran. Fateme Sadeghi-Nodoushan 0000-0003-4461-3100 No Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Payam Emami 0000-0002-1892-7539 No Department of Emergency Medical Sciences, School of Paramedical Sciences, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.