Advances in Application of Raman Spectroscopy in Food Safety
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 5358
Special Issue Editors
Interests: raman spectroscopy; wheat allergy; gluten proteins; gliadins; amide I
Interests: 2D PAGE; LC-MS; western blot; rice seed proteins; barley protein profiling; triticale protein profiling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is a great pleasure to announce this Special Issue on “Advances in Application of Raman Spectroscopy in Food Safety”.
In response to the popularity of various types of diets in nutrition, the demand for food production, with particular emphasis on that of plant origin, is constantly growing. In order to optimize yields, improve quality or obtain desired characteristics, pesticides and fertilizers, as well as genetic modifications of already existing species are used. The sensitivity of plants to various biotic and abiotic stress factors is also checked. Furthermore, both plant and animal food products are tested for the presence of potentially harmful xenobiotic substances.
All these treatments are aimed at caring for the health of consumers, reducing diseases and extending and improving the quality of life.
Food ingredients can be analyzed using various techniques, among which spectroscopic methods are particularly popular. The latter include Raman spectroscopy which allows exploring the molecular structures of biochemical compounds and the composition of the sample in a non-destructive manner.
Furthermore, the great advancement of gel-based and non-gel techniques allows the determination of the protein abundance of food samples and the identification of ingredients.
In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to contribute original research and review articles that concentrate on the food safety studied with Raman spectroscopy as well as gel and non-gel protein profiling methods. Special interest is devoted to the effects on the prevention and treatment of civilization diseases for example allergies.
Dr. Iwona Stawoska
Prof. Dr. Gabriela Gołębiowska-Paluch
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Wesełucha-Birczyńska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- raman spectroscopy
- gel and non-gel protein profiling
- food safety
- prevention
- civilization diseases
- proteins
- biomolecules
- allergies
- food modification
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