Application of Gut Microbiota and Dietary Compositions in Functional Foods
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, and Novel Foods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 67
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food chemistry; food analysis; polysaccharides; gut microbiota; functional food
Interests: structure and functional activity of polysaccharides; intestinal health; gut microbiota; fermentation; synthesis; functional food
Interests: polysaccharide; chromatography carbohydrate; proteins; phytochemicals; nutraceuticals; food science; antioxidants; immunomodulation; gut microbiota; functional food
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Dear Colleagues,
Some foods are rich in dietary components, such as proteins, polysaccharides, and dietary fibers, which contribute significantly to human health and food quality through various physiological and biological activities based on their specific chemical structures. The superior antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-aging, antidiabetic, and gut microbiota-modulating effects of dietary components have greatly facilitated their use as food ingredients or bioactive compounds in the field of functional foods, which have been the focus of many in vitro and in vivo studies. Dietary components can maintain intestinal microenvironmental homeostasis by influencing the population structure, metabolism, and intestinal cell function of intestinal flora, which in turn affects human health. On the other hand, the intestinal flora also participates in the absorption, metabolism, and transformation of these dietary components in the body, influencing their efficacy and improving their bioavailability, which is an indispensable role in the mechanism related to the efficacy of bioactive substances. Therefore, increasing effort is being dedicated to developing advanced functional foods and shedding light on the underlying mechanisms via which the desired therapeutic effect is achieved.
Dr. Zhijun Wang
Dr. Liuming Xie
Prof. Dr. Jianhua Xie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dietary compositions
- polysaccharides
- phytochemicals
- proteins
- dietary fiber
- structure
- gut microbiota
- intestinal health
- functional foods
- application
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