1. Introduction 2. Functional foods: Techniques for Instrumental and Statistical Analysis 3. Sensory Acuity: Impact of Aging and Chronic Disease 4. Hempseed and Flaxseed: A Comparison of Two Dietary Approaches to Resist Cardiovascular Disease 5. Functional Foods and Diabetes 6. Functional Foods and Cancer Prevention 7. Functional properties of foods in chronic kidney disease 8. Functional Foods and Celiac Disease 9. Functional Foods and Fatty Liver Disease 10. The Role of Diet, Functional Foods and The Microbiome and Their Interplay in Gout 11. Functional Foods and Parkinson's Disease 12. Functional Foods and Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia 13. Role of functional foods in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia