Food Science and Technology Bulletin: Functional Foods is an online minireview journal that delivers concise and relevant peer-reviewed minireviews of developments in selected areas of functional foods. Newly published minireviews are compiled to form an annual printed volume. Contents for Volume 3 of the Bulletin include minireviews on: Nutrigenomics - new frontiers in antioxidant research; Dietary fat composition and cardiovascular disease; Phytochemicals - a future in functional foods? Inulin: a prebiotic functional food ingredient; Assessment of the efficacy of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics in swine nutrition; Lactitol, an emerging prebiotic; Guidelines for an evidence-based review system for the scientific justification of diet and health relationships under Article 13 of the new European legislation on nutrition and health claims