| Foreword | Researching and Developing Food with Function Claims | Yoshio Ito | President of Japanese Society of Food Chemistry (Technical Adviser, Japan Food Research Laboratories) |  |
| Feature Articles: Materials of Food with Function Claims | Molecular Basis of Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins | Yasuyuki Shimohigashi | Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University |  |
| The Milk Peptide PeptoPro® as a New Ingredient for Functional Beverages | Stefan Siebrecht | DSM Food Specialties |  |
| Current and Future Status of Functional Foods Ingredient "Coenzyme Q10" | Kazumasa Otsubo
Shinji Koga | Asahikasei Pharma Corporation |  |
| L-Carnipure® L-Carnitine - An Important Nutrient with Essential Functions within Energy Metabolism | Ulla Held | Lonza Ltd. |  |
| Physiological Functions of Purple Corn Color | Takatoshi Koda
Kuniyoshi Onishi | San-Ei Gen F.F.I, Inc. |  |
| Reviews | How to Sense Non-Digestible Polysaccharides Using Intestinal Mucosa | Satoshi Ishizuka | Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University |  |
| Production of industrially Valuable Lipids by Marine Microorganisms | Tsunehiro Aki
Kazuhisa Ono | Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University |  |
| Learning Experience Enables Mice to Discriminate Odors among Liquors | Keisuke Okuhara
Takuo Nakamura
Noboru Takiguchi
Akio Kuroda
Junichi Kato | Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University |  |
| Hisao Ohtake | Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University |
| S-ovalbumin as a Deterioration Factor of Stored Eggs | Masaaki Hirose | Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University |  |
| Original Paper | Antihypertensive Effect of Enzymatically Modified Isoquercitrin in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat | Tohru Toyoshi
Kazuhiro Emura | Nihon Bioresearch Inc. |  |
| Masamitsu Moriwaki | San-Ei Gen F.F.I, Inc. |
| ArtTaste | Background of Some Japanese Expressions about Food (2): "assari," "shari- shari" and "sara-sara" | Fumiyo Hayakawa | Food Function Division, Food Physics Laboratory |  |