Nutrition and Technology Advances in Plant, Fruit, and Crop Foods
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2025 | Viewed by 36
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Interests: plant food; phytochemistry; cereal science; bioactive compounds; crop food products; food science and technology; nutrition and dietetics
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit short communications, research, or review articles to this Special Issue entitled “Nutrition and Technology Advances in Plant, Fruit, and Crop Foods”.
All cultures have traditional dishes of vegetal origin, including seeds, fruits, leaves, and even stems and flowers, which were the basis of human nutrition in old times. Nowadays, looking for a healthier diet, the preservation of the environment, as well as the fight against global warming, we are rescuing quite interesting vegetal ingredients for inclusion in newly developed foods or modifying old plant foods because of the high nutritional quality of their compounds and the heat resistance of some cultivars. Some of the ingredients are ancestral ones, such as quinoa, chia, and amaranth, but others are newly discovered cultivars or included in newly developed foods. Technological procedures with which to prepare new foods with alternative ingredients are commonly a challenge. Additionally, the current ways with which to evaluate nutritional quality using cell lines, semi-in vitro models, or isotopic techniques in human beings are interesting.
This Special Issue invites original research articles and reviews focusing on the application of a wide variety of techniques to evaluate the quality of newly developed foods, including vegetal ingredients with properties to improve or maintain healthy human nutrition or decrease production costs. Special focus will be given to original food products with high nutritional quality, as evaluated by convincing procedures.
Prof. Dr. Ana María Calderón De la Barca
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant food
- vegetal ingredient
- fruits
- bioactive compounds
- crop food products
- food science and technology
- nutrition and dietetics
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