As a student, I always realized that there is a dearth of books dealing specifically with nutritional and therapeutic significance of foods having latest information. So, this book on foods and nutritional biochemistry has been written keeping in mind the importance and the absence of a recent book with latest information in this field. The scope of this book is not restricted to any specific area of readers; it concerns people as varied as students to housewives, hotel management graduates to entrepreneurs and academicians to research scientists. In present era, it is very important to know the contents of food one eats to judiciously decide what to consume for a healthy living. The book is well framed including an introduction of foods and nutrition, macro and micro nutrients-their working, food processing and preservation techniques and nutritional and therapeutic significance of different foods for well being. The author has incorp-orated recent advances and develop-ments with relevant data. The text in the book has been aptly supple-mented with tables, charts and flow charts in order to make text clear and reading practical and easy. The book aims at covering all aspects of the subject. The author has tried to make it readable for light reading as well as preparing for exams. The book covers chapters pertinent to graduate as well as post graduate courses of universities, colleges, JRF-SRF NET and other competitive exams. The book serves the answers to questions of inquisitive beings who want to understand the significance of different foods they see and consume every day. Foods and nutrition biochemistry is the fundamental science and art. Keeping its principles in mind nutritional and food security problems can be solved easily. This book tries to bring the subject in a logical and technical manner by expanding the horizons and thinking power of the readers. The author personally feels that this will definitely help and educate the readers.