Bioactive peptides from food : sources analysis and functions Bioactive peptides present in foods can exert several beneficial effects like preventing diseases or modulating the physiological systems once they are absorbed in the human body. Methods of isolation of these peptides from different protein sources with their in vitro and vivo physiological effects are addressed in this book as is an overview of the different analysis methods. The book also includes a discussion of health benefits such as antimicrobial antiallergic antihypertensive antitumor and immunomodulatory properties of peptides