Israel Goldberg

In early 1973, I returned to Israel from a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University, and was accepted as a lecturer in the Department of Applied Microbiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Shortly after my return, Professor Richard Mateles, who at that time was head of the Department, suggested that I purchase a good and comprehensive book on single cell protein (SCP) in order to expand my general knowledge in the subject I had started then to work on; that was microbial utilization of one-carbon (C ) compounds. l Naturally, I took his advice (after all, he was the Boss) and bought the book, which was the only general book published on this subject at that time, and was based on papers presented at the First International Conference on Single Cell Protein, held at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (M. I. T.), on October 1967 (Mateles and Tannenbaum, editors) [1]. Through this book I became acquainted with the world's hunger problem that existed in the past, and ways in which it was to be solved by SCP products prepared from CO , fossil-based raw 2 materials, and from wastes.

Foreword: Theodore P. Labuza.- Preface: Israel Goldberg.- Contributors.- I. Introduction.- Chapter1. Introduction.- II. Health Attributes of Functional Foods.- Chapter2. Reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.- Chapter3. Reducing the risk of cancer.- Chapter4. Functional foods in the control of obesity.- Chapter5. Nutrient control of immune function.- Chapter6. Dietary factors modulating the rate of aging.- Chapter7. Mood and performance foods.- Chapter8. Medical foods.- III. Health Functionality of Food Components.- Chapter9. Dietary fiber.- Chapter10. Special physiological functions of newly developed oligosaccharides.- Chapter11. Sugar alcohols.- Chapter12. Amino acids, peptides and proteins.- Chapter13. Vitamins for optimal health.- Chapter14. Lactic acid bacteria as promoters of human health.- Chapter15. Nutrition of macrominerals and trace elements.- Chapter16. Fatty acids.- Chapter17. Phytochemicals and antioxidants.- IV. Market and Competition.- Chapter18. Functional foods in Japan.- Chapter19. The development of the functional food business in the United States and Europe.- Chapter20. The potential role of functional foods in medicine and public health.- Chapter21. The role of marketing communication in the introduction of functional foods to the consumer.- Chapter22. The food industry's role in functional foods.- V. Consumer's Viewpoint.- Chapter23. Consumers' view on functional foods.- VI. Future Prospects.- Chapter24. Future prospects for functional foods.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the prospects for a wide range of food ingredients produced using biotechnology.