Evidence continues to implicate dietary components and genetic susceptibilities as important determinants of cancer risk and tumor behavior. Variation in cancer incidence among and within populations with similar dietary patterns suggests that an individual’s response may reflect interactions with genetic factors, which may modify gene, protein, and metabolite expression patterns. Nutrigenomics...

The market of functional foods and beverages develops dynamically. Biological activities of many food components which occur naturally become an issue of many scientific and industrial interests. The structural and chemical changes occurring during the proteins processing lead to the release of bioactive peptides. Their multifunctional activity is based on their structure and other factors incl...

The increased consumer awareness of the health promoting effects of functional foods and nutraceuticals is the driving force of the functional food and nutraceutical market. Bioactive peptides are known for their high tissue affinity, specificity and efficiency in promoting health. For this reason, the search for food-derived bioactive peptides has increased exponentially. Over the years, many ...

Eggs play an important role in the human diet and nutrition as an affordable nutrient-rich food commodity that contains highly digestible proteins, lipids, minerals, and vitamins (Fisinin et al., 2008). Over the past 35 years, global egg production has grown 203.2%, due to a rapidly increasing demand for proteins in the developing world (Windhorst, 2007). In 1970, the US was the greatest egg pr...

Proteins of animal origin represent physiologically active components in the human diet; they exert a direct action or constitute a substrate for enzymatic hydrolysis upon food processing and consumption. Bioactive peptides may descend from the hydrolysis by digestive enzymes, enzymes endogenous to raw food materials, and enzymes from microorganisms added during food processing. Milk proteins h...

Pleurotus ostreatus as one of the most commercialized and popular fungi species was cultivated and consumed as traditional food for long time in many Asian countries like China, Korea and Japan [1], it contains many biological active materials, such as protein, fiber, carbohydrates, fat, trace elements and ash. Polysaccharide, one of the main bioactive components of P. ostreatus has received mo...