Development of Fluorescent and Infrared Spectroscopy Applications in Food Analysis: Second Edition
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2024) | Viewed by 1087
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Interests: chromatography; polyphenols; phytochemistry; analytical chemistry; liquid chromatography; phenolic compounds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of Volume I (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/special_issues/Y9J1RRT333) of this Special Issue, we would like to express our gratitude to all participants and for the support of the high-profile scientists who contributed. The topic of the “Development of Fluorescent and Infrared Spectroscopy Applications in Food Analysis” continues to play a pivotal role, and we would therefore like to launch a second edition, which will hopefully prove as successful.
Food contains a complex mixture of nutrients that play vital roles in human health and activity. There is considerable demand for new analytical methodologies to determine the composition and nutritive characteristics of foods. Many analytical techniques currently used for food analysis are expensive and time-consuming and require sample preprocessing. As a result of significant technical advances in both instrumentation and data analysis tools in the past two decades, optical spectroscopy (infrared and fluorescent) methods have become increasingly important for a wide variety of analytical applications in biology and chemistry. Coupled with advanced mathematical/statistical tools, optical spectroscopy methods allow for rapid, accurate, and reliable qualitative and quantitative analyses of the composition and physicochemical properties of various kinds of food without sample preparation. The application of these techniques has expanded into many areas of food research and analytics as powerful, fast, and non-destructive tools for food quality analysis and control.
This Special Issue of Foods will focus on applications of optical spectroscopy methods (fluorescent, infrared) in food analysis. It will provide an overview of the current status of these methods in food analysis and future perspectives for their application.
Prof. Dr. Ksenija Radotić
Dr. Maja Natic
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical spectroscopy
- fluorescence spectroscopy
- infrared spectroscopy
- food composition
- food diagnostics
- proteins
- phenols
- lipids
- polysaccharides
- vitamins
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