Antioxidants from Food and Food Wastes for Nutraceutical, Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic fields
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Extraction and Industrial Applications of Antioxidants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 70
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polyphenols; bioactive compounds; analytical methods; antioxidant activity; food processing; chemometrics; functional ingredients; bioaccessibility
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to present a new Special Issue on the potential of food and agri-food wastes as sustainable sources of antioxidant compounds. While the potential of antioxidants from natural sources is vast, and their exploitation is now essential in the context of green and circular economies in multiple fields, challenges related to the extraction, characterization, stability, and bioavailability remain.
Antioxidant compounds derived from food and agricultural by-products can play an important role in nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic applications, providing health benefits through their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial properties and also developing specific activities. However, their successful use depends on the development of efficient extraction processes and innovative formulations that enhance their efficacy, stability, and bioavailability.
This Special Issue aims to address these challenges by focusing on extraction methods, the development of novel formulations, and sustainable technologies. We encourage you to submit original research and review articles that explore these topics, advance the design of functional ingredients and products, and provide solutions to improve the stability (both during storage and after processing), bioavailability, and delivery of antioxidant compounds from food and related wastes or by-products. Due to the importance of this field, research focused on analytical methods for the characterization of antioxidant compounds and the evaluation of their bioactivity will also be considered.
We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions.
Prof. Dr. Monica Locatelli
Guest Editor
Dr. Vincenzo Disca
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- phenolic compounds
- analytical methods
- bioactivities
- green extraction
- functional ingredients
- food supplements
- by-products and up-cycled ingredients
- nutraceutical
- cosmetics
- bioaccessibility
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