Metabolomics in Food
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Foodomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 9568
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pharmaceutical analysis; traditional Chinese medicine; metabolomics; network biology; natural products; quality control
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, metabolomics has become one of the most important tools in the field of medicine and life science, as well as in the research of food science. Convectional food research often focuses on limited chemical components or nutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals, etc.), while metabolomics provides a holistic view on food and its effects, emphasizing the analysis of “metabolic profiling” or “metabolic fingerprinting” based on thousands of chemical compositions in food itself or endogenous metabolic components in food-intake organisms. Metabolomics provides more powerful data support for food identification, safety assurance, food processing, and quality control and can be used to comprehensively evaluate the nutritional and biological effects (sensory, toxicity or health promoting) of food and to explore its molecular mechanism.
This Special Issue of Foods, entitled “Metabolomics in Food”, will cover metabolomics study in food science, including food quality control, nutrition analysis, functional evaluation, mechanism exploration, etc. Researchers are warmly invited to submit their original contributions (reviews, original research papers, short communications) to this Special Issue.
Dr. Shikai Yan
Dr. Minjie Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- untargeted metabolomics approaches to assess food quality, safety, and health-promoting function
- biomarkers to determine food quality and health-promoting value
- untargeted or targeted metabolomics approaches to explore the mechanism of health-promoting effects of functional food
- methodology and applications in LC/MS-, GC/MS-, and NMR-based metabolomics for food analysis
- integration analysis on multi-omics data for food analysis
- bioinformatics and computational/mathematical methods for the analysis of food metabolomics data
- metabolomics approaches used in microbial production of food ingredients and additives
- metabolomics in gut microbiota and interaction with food components using in vitro and in vivo models
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