Content: I. Fruits, vegetables, and teas -- II. Medicinal plants and other foods. [v. 1, no. 701] The prevention of cancer / Bruce N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold -- Glucosinolates, myrosinase, and isothiocyanates : three reasons for eating brassica vegetables / Jed W. Fahey, Katherine K. Stephenson, and Paul Talalay -- Chemoprevention of colon cancer by select phytochemicals / B.S. Reddy -- Lycopene and cancer : an overview / Joseph Levy, Michael Danilenko, Michael Karas, Hadar Amir, Amit Nahum, Yudit Giat, and Yoav Sharoni -- Mechanisms of phytochemical inhibition of carcinogenesis : elucidating the role of [gamma]-tocopherol in nutrition / T.S. Burnett, Y. Tanaka, P.J. Harwood, and R.V. Cooney -- Carotenoids, as promising factor for functional foods / H. Nishino -- Metabolism of dietary carotenoids and their potential role in prevention of cancer and age-related macular degeneration / F. Khachik, L.A. Cohen, and Z. Zhao -- Auraptene, an alkyloxylated coumarin from Citrus natsudaidai HAYATA, inhibits mouse skin tumor promotion and rat colonic aberrant crypt foci formation / Akira Murakami, Wataru Kuki, Yasuo Takahashi, Hiroshi Yonei, Takuji Tanaka, Hiroki Makita, Keiji Wada, Naomi Ueda, Masanobu Haga, Yoshimasa Nakamura, Yoshimi Ohto, Oe Kyung Kim, Hajime Ohigashi, and Koichi Koshimizu -- Anticarcinogenic and/or antimetastatic action of apple pectin in experimental rat colon carcinogenesis and on hepatic metastasis rat model / K. Tazawa, Hideo Ohkami, Iwao Yamashita, Yasuharu Ohnishi, Tomohiro Saito, Masahiro Okamoto, Kiichi Masuyama, Kazumaro Yamazaki, Shigeru Takemori, Mitukazu Saito, and Hediki Arai -- Antitumor activity of Emblica officinalis Gaertn fruit extract / Pratima Sur, D.K. Ganguly, Y. Hara, and Y. Matsuo -- Beneficial effect of moderate alcohol consumption to health : a review of recent results on wines / Michikatsu Sato -- Vegetables and related compounds : anti-fatigue effects of yiegin / Shiyun Yan, Jiyan Zhou, and Hirotomo Ochi -- A potent antioxidative and anti-UV-B isoflavonoids transformed microbiologically from soybean components / Akio Mimura, Shin-ichi Yazaki, and Hiroshi Tanimura -- Soy isoflavones in foods : database development / Patricia A. Murphy, Kobita Barua, and Tongtong Song -- Human bioavailability of soy bean isoflavones : influences of diet, dose, time, and gut microflora / S. Hendrich, G.-J. Wang, X. Xu, B.-Y. Tew, H.-J. Wang, and P.A. Murphy -- The color stability and antioxidative activity of an anthocyanin and [gamma]-cyclodextrin complex / Hirotoshi Tamura, Mitsuyoshi Takada, Atsushi Yamagami, and Kohei Shiomi -- Inhibitory effect of flavonoids on lipoxygenase-dependent lipid peroxidation of human plasma lipoproteins / J. Terao, E.L. da Silva, H. Arai, J-H. Moon, and M.K. Piskula -- Comparison on the nitrite scavenging activity and antimutagen formation between insoluble and soluble dietary fibers / K. Kangsadalampai -- Antitumor effect of green tea on rat urinary bladder tumor induced by N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl) nitrosamine / M. Matsushima and D. Sato -- In vitro and in vivo effects of fatty acids and phenolic compounds on chemical mediator release from rat peritoneal exudate cells / K. Yamada, N. Matsuo, K. Shoji, M. Mori, T. Ueyama, S. Yunoki, S. Kaku, S. Oka, K. Nishiyama, M. Nonaka, H. Tachibana, and M. Sugano -- Tea catechin (EGCG) and its metabolites as bioantioxidants / I. Tomita, M. Sano, K. Sasaki, and T. Miyase -- Effects of tea polyphenols against Helicobacter pylori / M. Yamada, B. Murohisa, M. Kitagawa, Y. Takehira, K. Tamakoshi, N. Mizushima, T. Nakamura, K. Hirasawa, T. Horiuchi, I. Oguni, N. Harada, and Y. Hara -- Modulation of mitotic signal transduction by curcumin and tea polyphenols and their implication for cancer chemoprevention / Jen-Kun Lin, Yu-Chih Liang, Yu-Li Lin, Yen-Chou Chen, and Shoei-Yn Lin Shiau. [v. 2, no. 702] Recent progress of functional food research in Japan / Toshihiko Osawa -- Communicating the benefits of functional foods : insights from consumer and health professional focus groups / D.B. Schmidt, M.M. Morrow, and C. White -- Developing claims for functional foods / R.E. Litov -- Functional foods : the food industry and functional foods : some European perspectives / O. Korver -- Functional seafood products / Fereidoon Shahidi -- Effect of Crassostera gigas extract (JCOE) on cell growth in gastric carcinoma cell lines / Yasuharu Masui, Toshikazu Yoshikawa, Yuji Naito, Yoshio Boku, Takaaki Fujii, Hiroki Manabe, and Motoharu Kondo -- Marine plasmalogen and its antioxidative effect intake of dietary fish oil into membrane lipid and their stability against oxidative stress / Kozo Takama, Kazuaki Kikuchi, and Tetsuya Suzuki -- Antimutagenic mechanism of flavonoids against a food-derived carcinogen, Trp-P-2, elucidated with the structure-activity relationships / K. Kanazawa, H. Ashida, and G. Danno -- Cholesterol lowering effects of red koji / N. Nakajima and A. Endo -- Heterocyclic amines induce apoptosis in hepatocytes / Hitoshi Ashida, Hideya Adachi, Kazuki Kanazawa, and Gen-ichi Danno -- Antioxidative activity of brewed coffee extracts / Apasrin Singhara, Carlos Macku, and Takayuki Shibamoto -- Garlic and related allium derived compounds : their health benefits in cardiovascular disease and cancer / Manfred Steiner and George Sigounas -- Garlic as a functional food : a status report / Eric Block -- Garlic and associated allyl sulfur constituents depress chemical carcinogenesis / J.A. Milner and E.M. Schaffer -- Antioxidative and antitumorigenic properties of rosemary / Chi-Tang Ho, Jianhong Chen, Guangyuan Lu, Mou-Tuan Huang, Yu Shao, and Chee-Kok Chin -- Nontoxic and nonorgan specific cancer preventive effect of Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer / Taik-Koo Yun, Soo-yong Choi, and Yun-Sil Lee -- Possible inhibition of atherosclerosis by a flavonoid isolated from young green barley leaves / Takashi Miyake, Yashihide Hagiwara, Hideaki Hagiwara, and Takayuki Shibamoto -- The genox oxidative stress profile : an overview on its assessment and application / Richard Cutler, Kristine Crawford, Roy Cutler, Rong-Zhu Cheng, Narasimhan Ramarathnam, Masao Takeuchi, and Hirotomo Ochi -- Pharmacokinetics of soy phytoestrogens in humans / Shaw Watanabe and Herman Adlercreutz -- Identification of Maillard type polymers with antioxidative activity / R. Tressll, G. Wondrak, E. Kersten, R.P. Kriiger, and D. Rewicki -- Tandem mass spectrometric analysis of regio-isomerism of triacylglycerols in human milk and infant formulae / H. Kallio, J.-P. Kurvinen, O. Sjövall, and A. Johansson -- Effects of various phytochemicals on colonic cancer biomarkers / B.A. Magnuson, J.H. Exon, E.H. South, and K. Hendrix -- Use of Cu(II)/ascorbate system in the screening for hydroxyl radical scavenging activity in food extracts via an ELISA for 8-hydroxy deoxyguanosine / Sachi Sri Kantha, Shun-ichi Wada, Masao Takeuchi, Shugo Watabe, and Hirotomo Ochi -- Effect of oxygen depletion on the food digestion / R. Yamaji, M. Sakamoto, Y. Ohnishi, H. Inui, K. Miyatake, and Y. Nakano -- Photon emission by heme-protein in the presence of reactive oxygen species and phenolic compounds / Y. Yoshiki, M. Kawane, T. Iida, H. Yuan, Okubo, T. Ishizawa, and S. Kawabata.