Food Bioactive Compounds: Extraction, Identification and Application
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: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1822
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bioactive compounds; omics; Identification; biosynthesis
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Dear Colleagues,
Foods are complicated materials, which contain nutrient substances as well as functional/bioactive compounds, for instance, flavones, pigments, polyphenol, polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, antioxidants, enzymes, and so on. Furthermore, foods will produce more bioactive compounds during digestion; one of the most typical bioactive gastrointestinal products is the bioactive peptides. All these bioactive compounds have critical roles in human healthy even some diseases. Therefore, efficient discovery of such functional/bioactive compounds becomes significant, especially high-throughput discovery or screening. Because of the rapid development of Information Science and Technology and omics (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, flavor omics, etc.), high-throughput techniques and virtual/in silico prediction technology are greatly promoting the efficient discovery and innovation of bioactive compounds in foods. Accordingly, this Special Issue will focus on the new techniques of screening, prediction, and design of bioactive compounds in foods, including high-throughput methods, virtual/in silico strategies, etc., as well as novel techniques in the assay of the bioactivities in silico, in vitro, or in vivo and the illustration of molecular mechanisms.
Prof. Dr. Yingjian Lu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioactive compounds
- virtual screening
- high-throughput
- assay techniques of bioactivities
- molecular mechanism
- omics in foods
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