Novel Perspectives in Food Fermentation: Safety, Quality and Health
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 6675
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food microbiology; fermented food; microecology
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Interests: fermented food; starter culture; flavor; lactic acid bacteria; yeast
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fermentation has been utilized for food preservation for thousands of years. This process not only extends the shelf-life of foods and beverages, but it also improves nutrition, health, and disease prevention in a safe and effective manner. Understanding the succession of microorganisms, developing novel process methods, and seeking new starter cultures to deal with changing consumer preferences are all aspects of researching fermented food. A better knowledge of fermentation at the molecular level is required to support and develop the production of sustainable fermented foods with high nutritional characteristics.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect original research articles and reviews on the topics of cutting-edge approaches to food fermentation by compiling studies on traditional and unconventional food matrix fermentation, functional compounds produced through fermentation, and fermentations increasing quality and safety standards. We also encourage the submission of articles detailing innovative methods that shed light on the microbial population, collaboration that integrates traditional foods into contemporary diets, and viewpoints that use unusual substrates or food byproducts through fermentation.
Dr. Huipeng Liang
Dr. Xinping Lin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food fermentation
- food microbiology
- starter cultures
- lactic acid bacteria
- yeast
- foodborne pathogenic microorganisms
- bioprocesses
- functional compounds
- food safety
- food quality