Foods: New Perspectives
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2021) | Viewed by 20392
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food chemistry; safety; food safety; nutraceuticals; nanonutraceuticals; recovery from byproducts of the food industry; food contaminants; food supplements; contaminants; risk assessment; mycotoxins and secondary metabolites; chemistry and food education
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Interests: food chemistry; food contaminants; fermentation chemistry; safety and health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Foods are complex matrices, and their study is based on multidisciplinary approaches involving different expertises and knowledge, especially when considering the safe reuse of waste/by-products from animal and vegetal origin in view of a circular and sustainable economy.
Chemical, physical and microbiological methods and techniques are used to transform raw ingredients into food and other forms, providing nutrients and added value formulations based on the micronutrients present in the original food matrices.
This Special Issue is dedicated to all the different aspects of food matrices, ranging from analysis to safety, from food traceability to novel resources for functional food, food supplements and nutraceuticals.
The sustainabile and efficient recovery of active compounds from food matrices represents a worlwide novel challenge for research. Additionally, reusing food matrices is a key element in achieveing the vision of a circular economy which is sustainable, adds value to food products, and is environmentally friendly.
The new frontiers in food analysis as well as the use of new approaches for novel formulations and the delivery of nutrients (e.g., nanotechnology), impact on several aspects of food science and represent great global challenges for the future. Of particular note, are novel foods and novel food supplements and nutraceuticals which may potenitally have an impact on health.
The roles and perspective uses of novel foods in human health, examined from different angles, ranging from analytical aspects to clinical trials and from efficacy studies to the beneficial effects on health, are among the hot topics in food research and form the point of focus for this Special Issue.
It is our privilege to invite you to contribute up to date research results to this wide area as part of this Special Issue of Foods, which will report on results at the frontier of food research.
Prof. Dr. Antonello Santini
Prof. Dr. Giacomo Dugo
Dr. Nicola Cicero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food composition and quality
- traceability
- natural compounds
- food traceability
- food analysis
- innovative analytical techniques
- nutraceuticals and botanicals
- nanotechnology and food
- food contamination
- food safety
- reuse of food waste
- novel resources for functional foods
- novel foods
- regulation
- health
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