Developments in the understanding of food protein structure, behaviour and applications continue apace. Many of these have, in the past decade, been reported and evaluated in the series 'Developments in Food Pro- teins', comprising seven volumes, with a total of 55 chapters. The time has now come to re-assess many of the topics reviewed in that series and to add certain others. However, instead of assembling, some- what at random, food protein topics from quite disparate fields in indi- vidual volumes, we have decided to bring together homogeneous groups of topics, each representing a...