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International Women in Engineering Day is an international awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering and focus attention on the amazing career opportunities available to girls and women in this exciting industry.

The theme for this year is “Enhanced by Engineering”, we’ll be celebrating the amazing work that women engineers around the world are doing to support lives and livelihoods every day.

We’re profiling the best, brightest and bravest women in engineering, who have enhanced by engineering people’s everyday lives and are helping build towards a brighter future.

To further discuss research related to World Foods Safety Day, the Applied Sciences (ISSN: 2076-3417) has collected open access academic research on the topic of green food, food processing and food packaging. We want to use this special day to share new scientific knowledge in the field of food industry.

1. “A Review of the Relationship between Gut Microbiome and Obesity”
by Dorottya Zsálig, Anikó Berta, Vivien Tóth, Zoltán Szabó, Klára Simon, Mária Figler, Henriette Pusztafalvi and Éva Polyák
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(1), 610; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13010610
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/1/610

2. “Insight into the Impact of Food Processing and Culinary Preparations on the Stability and Content of Plant Alkaloids Considered as Natural Food Contaminants”
by Natalia Casado, Gema Casado-Hidalgo, Lorena González-Gómez, Sonia Morante-Zarcero and Isabel Sierra
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(3), 1704; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13031704
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/3/1704

3. “Comparison of the Spreadability of Butter and Butter Substitutes”
by Małgorzata Ziarno, Dorota Derewiaka, Anna Florowska and Iwona Szymańska
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(4), 2600; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13042600
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/4/2600

4. “Quality Assessment of Banana Ripening Stages by Combining Analytical Methods and Image AnalysisFCGFD”
by Vassilia J. Sinanoglou, Thalia Tsiaka, Konstantinos Aouant, Elizabeth Mouka, Georgia Ladika, Eftichia Kritsi, Spyros J. Konteles, Alexandros-George Ioannou, Panagiotis Zoumpoulakis, Irini F. Strati et al.
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(6), 3533; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13063533
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/6/3533

5. “Plant-Based Fish Analogs—A Review”
by Malgorzata Nowacka, Magdalena Trusinska, Paulina Chraniuk, Jagoda Piatkowska, Anna Pakulska, Karolina Wisniewska, Anna Wierzbicka, Katarzyna Rybak and Katarzyna Pobiega
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(7), 4509; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13074509
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/7/4509

6. “Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Affecting the Color of Fresh Beef Meat—Comprehensive Review”
by Alejandro Poveda-Arteaga, Johannes Krell, Monika Gibis, Volker Heinz, Nino Terjung and Igor Tomasevic
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(7), 4382; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13074382
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/7/4382

7. “Edible Packaging: A Technological Update for the Sustainable Future of the Food Industry”
by Surya Sasikumar Nair, Joanna Trafiałek and Wojciech Kolanowski
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(14), 8234; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13148234
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/14/8234

8. “Suitability of Apples Flesh from Different Cultivars for Vacuum Impregnation Process”
by Marcin Kidoń, Elżbieta Radziejewska-Kubzdela, Róża Biegańska-Marecik and Przemysław Łukasz Kowalczewski
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(3), 1528; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13031528
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/3/1528

9. “Characterization of the Aroma Profile of Commercial Prosecco Sparkling Wines”
by Davide Slaghenaufi, Giovanni Luzzini, Matteo Borgato, Anita Boscaini, Andrea Dal Cin, Vittorio Zandonà and Maurizio Ugliano
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(6), 3609; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13063609
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/6/3609

10. “Development and Characterization of N/S-Carbon Quantum Dots by Valorizing Greek Crayfish Food Waste”
by Achilleas Kechagias, Christos Lykos, Vassilios K. Karabagias, Stavros Georgopoulos, Viktoria Sakavitsi, Areti Leontiou, Constantinos E. Salmas, Aris E. Giannakas and Ioannis Konstantinou
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(15), 8730; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13158730
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/15/8730