Chemical Analysis of Functional Foods
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 2032
Special Issue Editors
Interests: NMR; food chemistry; functional foods; food authentication; metabolomics; analytical chemistry; chromatography; chemometrics
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Interests: NMR; food chemistry; functional foods; food authentication; metabolomics; analytical chemistry; chromatography; chemometrics; drug delivery systems
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, more and more consumers are aware of the benefits associated with a balanced and healthy diet. As a consequence, consumer interest in functional foods that are high in bioactive/nutraceutical compounds is growing. Functional foods are defined as foods or food ingredients that provide health benefits besides basic nutrition. The role of scientists is essential for discovering, designing, and characterizing new functional foods. Experts in the field of chemical analysis play a central role in this context as chemical analysis ensures the safety and quality of functional foods, protecting consumers from any risk. Moreover, chemical analysis allows the complete characterization of foods in terms of the identification and quantification of bioactive compounds.
This Special Issue, entitled “Chemical Analysis of Functional Foods”, will showcase high-quality contributions both in the form of original and innovative research and review articles. The main objective is to cover studies focused on the chemical characterization of functional foods and the development of analytical methods for the quality control of functional foods. The employment of multivariate statistical analyses for chemical data interpretation is encouraged, as are multidisciplinary approaches where food chemistry, biology, and nutrition are interconnected.
Dr. Davide Bertelli
Dr. Eleonora Truzzi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- functional foods
- nutraceuticals
- metabolomics
- advanced analytical techniques
- chemometrics
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