“…However, an increasing number of animal and plant (poly)peptides are being claimed to play relevant regulatory functions, often attributed to anti-oxidant, antiproliferative and anti-inflammatory effects [17]. As far as soybean is concerned, experimental evidence clearly indicates the possibility that peptides and even small compact proteins, such as the BowmanBirk inhibitor, may be adsorbed [18], thus eliciting a number of effects, including anticancer, anti-inflammatory, radioprotective ones [19]. Other peptides have been shown to exert hypotensive effects [20].…”