ABSTRACT
This chapter covers bioactive proteins and peptides emerging as health functional foods, and their ability to arrest disease propagation. Many naturally occurring compounds from foods such as rice, peas, vegetables, fruits, and so on have been found to possess properties that help to slow disease progression, inhibit pathophysiological mechanisms, or suppress activities of pathogenic molecules. Proteins and peptides play signi†cant roles in such activities (Hartmann and Meisel, 2007). They are thus gaining importance as nutraceuticals that bene†t aspects of health and nutrition. Moreover, certain diseases and disorders that do not have convincing
CONTENTS
1.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................1 1.2 Proteins and Peptides as Nutraceuticals in Health and Disease ............3
