Dear Colleagues,

Increasing interest in maintaining and enhancing human health has highlighted the awareness of the nutritional quality of vegetables available to consumers. Vegetables provide vitamins, minerals, dietary fibres and health-promoting bioactive compounds. Increasing intake of vegetables is one of the principal recommendations of dietary guidelines for healthy eating worldwide. Numerous studies have documented the association between the consumption of vegetables and a lower risk of cardiovascular disorders, cancer, and diabetes mellitus. Providing consumers with vegetables of high nutritional quality is a mutual goal for breeding, cultivation, postharvest and processing.

This Special Issue focuses on the nutritional quality and human health of vegetable crops from farm to table tracking through the food industry. The issue will include interdisciplinary studies embracing agriculture with disciplines of biology, chemistry and medicine. Research articles will cover a broad range of vegetable germplasm evaluation, quality improvement by breeding, cultivation and quality regulation, technologies for postharvest storage and processing, modern analytical techniques, nutritional quality standards, metabolism and biotechnology as well as health functions. All types of articles, such as original research, opinions, and reviews are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Hongju He
Prof. Dr. Said A. Saleh
Prof. Dr. Chen Xiangning
Guest Editors

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• vegetables
• nutritional quality
• bioactive substances
• quality improvement
• quality regulation
• postharvest and processing
• quality analysis
• metabolism and biotechnology
• health functions