**Isabel Sousa 1,\*, Anabela Raymundo 1,\* and María Dolores Torres 2,\***


Received: 18 June 2020; Accepted: 25 June 2020; Published: 5 July 2020

**Abstract:** Tendencies in food and feed industries deal with a permanent need to develop innovative products, tailored to consumer demands and, in the near future, to scarcity of food resources. Sustainable food production and food products as health and wellness promoters, and the use of alternative ingredients or by-products in designed thought food or feed formulations following circular economy principles, are hot topics that act as driving forces for innovation. This special issue offers a comprehensive forum for exchanging novel research ideas or empirical practices covering discussions from healthy foodstuffs enriched with functional ingredients, with special emphasis on those targets for populations with specific requirements, to consumer attitudes towards new ingredients and end products.

**Keywords:** consumer acceptance and attitude; food for groups with special requirements; health and wellness promoters; innovation; product development; sustainability and economic viability
