| Foreword | History of Vahouny Symposium | Charles Thomas Bonfield | The Vahouny Symposia |  |
| Feature Articles: International Symposium on Non-digestible Carbohydrate (2) | Stimulation of Mineral Absorption by Indigestible Carbohydrates | Atsutane Ohta | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Josai International University |  |
| Mechanism for the Stimulatory Effect if Indigestible Oligosaccharides on Passive Calcium Absorption from the Small Intestine | Hitoshi Mineo | Primary Cell Co., Ltd. |  |
| Effect of dietary Non-Digestible Carbohydrates on the Rate of SCFA Delivery to Peripheral Tissues | Knud Erik Bach Knudsen | Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Animal Health, Welfare and Nutrition, Research Centre Foulum |  |
| In Vitro and Clinical Experiences with a Human Milk Oligosaccharide, Lacto-N-neoTetraose, and Fructooligosaccharides | Pedro Antonio Prieto | Strategic R&D, ANI, Abbott Laboratories |  |
| Reviews | Development of Anti-diabetic Food as a “}Food for Specified Use for Health”} | Hiroyuki Fujita | Nippon Supplement, Inc. |  |
| Structure-Physicochemical Function Relationships of Legume Seed | Takako Fukuda
Aiko Kimura
Nobuyuki Maruyama
Shigeru Utsumi | Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University |  |
| Report | Report of 11th Conference of Japanese Society of Food Chemistry | Yoshio Ito | Secretary-General Of Japanese Society of Food Chemistry (Technical Adviser, Japan Food Research Laboratories) |  |
| ArtTast | Background of Some Japanese Expressions about Food (3): "Hoku-hoku" and "Kokkuri" | Fumiyo Hayakawa | National Food Research Institute |  |