Bioactive food components, including characterization and optimization of novel phytochemicals; identification, structural characterization, development of fractionation methods, and production of stable high-yielding sources of specific bioactive chemicals; biopolymers for diabetes management; antioxidants as natural antimicrobial agents for human nutrition and health from phytochemicals/natural products from fruits, vegetables, spices, legumes, cereals and traditional Chinese medicinal herbs and edible algae and fungi and nutrigenomics approaches to explore their potential health benefits, and relationships with cancer, cardiovascular disease, aging, type II diabetes and neuro-degenerative diseases; role of probiotics in releasing bioactive peptides including ACE-I peptides in management of blood pressure and role of bioactive isoflavone aglycones in the management of resorption of calcium in order to prevent osteoporosis.