The Mediterranean diet has been hailed as the world's best, and now there's a pill that claims to have the same weight loss and health benefits.

It is being introduced to Australia by the company Phytologics.

The typical Greek or Mediterranean diet contains lots and lots of seafood, lots of fish, lots of vegetables, red vegetables in particular, fruit, and olive oil.

Brett Ditchfield from Phytologics says, "What we've done, what were excited about is we've been able to encapsulate the key essential components of the Mediterranean diet being the olive polyphenyls, the olygomerics of red wines and the Omega 3's of fatty fish - we've encapsulated those 3 essential ingredients into one single capsule."

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Brett adds, "But if you are only eating small amounts of fish per week, if you're not a good red wine drinker, if you’'e not having 30ml to 40ml of olive oil on a daily basis, this capsule gives you the capacity to get some of the benefit of the med diet on a regular basis in a capsule you would take daily."

This is not just about weight loss, Professor Minas Coreneo noticed something very strange about the eyesight of his 80-plus patients on one of the Greek isles.

"I opened a clinic, this macular degeneration condition than I would have expected to have seen in population that age - over 60 people in a nursing home with an average of 90 years old, and only one of them had any significant macular degeneration."

Professor Coreneo saw first hand the effects the Greek diet had on these people.

"The theory is that Mediterranean diets suppress inflammation in the body and inflammation is bad for you, and particularly this low grade chronic inflammation that’s responsible for not just eye disease, but heart disease and strokes and all of the other things... maybe even cancer for people in the west."

Greek born food scientist George Kokkinis supports the Mediterranean diet pill as a supplement for those who can't cook like our Mediterranean cousins.

"You can never replicate the full spectrum of nutrients of fruit and vegetables but what has been done with this pill is concentrated the anti-oxidants, the ones the research has shown to be extremely beneficial."

The Mediterranean diet pill will be available in Australia from September the 8th.