chapter 1 Nutraceutical Proteins and Peptides in Health and Disease: An Overview -- chapter 2 Calcium Binding Peptides -- chapter 3 Mineral-Binding Proteins and Peptides and Bioavailability of Trace Elements -- chapter 4 Cholesterol-Lowering Proteins and Peptides -- chapter 5 Heavy-Metal-Binding Proteins -- chapter 6 Tight-Junction-Modulatory Factors in Food -- chapter 7 Antimicrobial Peptides -- chapter 8 Bovine Milk Antibodies for Protection against Microbial Human Diseases -- chapter 9 Avian Immunoglobulin Y and Its Application in Human Health and Disease -- chapter 10 Antiangiogenic Proteins, Peptides, and Amino Acids -- chapter 11 Relevance of Growth Factors for the Gastrointestinal Tract and Other Organs -- chapter 12 Cystatin: A Novel Bioactive Protein -- chapter 13 ACE Inhibitory Peptides -- chapter 14 Regulation of Bone Metabolism: Milk Basic Protein -- chapter 15 Anticariogenic Peptides -- chapter 16 The Potential Therapeutic Role of Fibrinolytic Enzymes from Food in Cardiovascular Disease -- chapter 17 Opioid Peptides -- chapter 18 Factors that Affect the Body’s Nervous System: Relaxation Effects of Tea L-Theanine -- chapter 19 Introduction to Food Allergy -- chapter 20 The Production of Hypoallergenic Wheat Flour for Wheat-Allergic Patients -- chapter 21 Milk Proteins -- chapter 22 Egg Proteins -- chapter 23 Soybean -- chapter 24 Meat Allergy -- chapter 25 Rice-Seed Allergenic Proteins and Hypoallergenic Rice -- chapter 26 Buckwheat Allergy -- chapter 27 Database of Protein and Bioactive Peptide Sequences -- chapter 28 Rational Designing of Bioactive Peptides -- chapter 29 Engineering Hen Egg-White Lysozyme -- chapter 30 New Methodologies for the Synthesis of Oligopeptides and Conformation-Constrained Peptidomimetics -- chapter 31 Lacticin 3147 -- chapter 32 Membrane-Based Fractionation and Purification Strategies for Bioactive Peptides.