Advances and Challenges in Food Safety and Healthy Nutrition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 57
Special Issue Editors
Interests: quality and safety of food products; instrumental methods for assessing food quality parameters; the impact of technological processes and storage on volatile compound profiles of food; pharmacognosy; quality management systems in industry
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Interests: the influence of technological processes on the quality of food products; food packaging and storage; investigation of physicochemical and nutritional properties of food products; quality of food; shelf life extension
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Interests: emerging extraction technologies; green chemistry; bioactive compounds; functional foods; functional meat products; food packaging; new food products development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit original research papers and review articles that address advances and challenges in food safety and healthy nutrition.
Humans need to consume food to ensure the proper functioning of the body and its development, but dietary habits and principles vary depending on the living environment, social group, continent, culture or religion. The quality and safety of food should be ensured by food producers, as well as all participants in the food distribution chain. Producers are faced with new challenges in terms of providing food that is safe for human consumption, as well as functional food that improves comfort and even supports the prevention or treatment of various diseases.
Although consumers expect healthy and authentic food at an acceptable price, the economic factor often prevails and results in the cheapest products being purchased. However, the health quality of food is now becoming increasingly important for the conscious consumer. This is due to an increase in the incidence of lifestyle diseases that are related to diet. The systematic development of the health food market is also accompanied by dishonest food adulteration practices, including the placement of incorrect and false information on product packaging and labels. Therefore, the importance of control institutions is growing, with these ensuring that the food market contains safe food, i.e., food without hazards and with an appropriate nutritional and caloric value; this is the basis for healthy nutrition.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- producing health-promoting foods containing natural ingredients that are rich in biologically active substances, contributing to the improvements in the quality of life of consumers with diet-related diseases;
- quality systems in food production;
- food safety and control systems;
- food adulteration control methods.
Dr. Elżbieta Górska-Horczyczak
Dr. Magdalena Zalewska
Dr. Ewelina Pogorzelska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food
- nutritional value
- functional food
- food production quality systems
- food safety and quality
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