The conference was held at the very end of 1999, the middle of December. The 97 papers present recent research data and review lectures of interest to readers concerned with food factor in preventing disease and promoting health. They cover novel aspects of food factors, minerals and trace elements, recent topics in preventing cancer, peptides and amino acids, flavones and flavonols, isoflavones, dietary fibers, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides, lipids, catechins, cartenoids, polyphenols, antioxidative factors, terpenoids, sulphur-containing compounds, and vitamin E. There is no subject index.
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