Sustainable, Safe, and Healthy Food Ingredients: Production, Characterization, and Validation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2022) | Viewed by 5212
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food by-products; phenolic compounds; dietary fiber; antioxidant activity; in vitro digestion; mitochondrial function; inflammation; insulin sensitivity
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2. Institute of Food Science Research-CIAL, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Interests: bioactive compounds; analysis; biological activity; isolation; mechanism of action; bioaccessibility; bioavailability; food by-products; sustainability; bioeconomy
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Interests: by-products; food digestion; bioaccessibility; bioavailability; bioactive compounds; phenolic compounds; antioxidant activity; coffee; cocoa; food sustainability; nutrition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We at Sustainability are pleased to announce our forthcoming Special Issue on the production and characterization of sustainable, safe, and healthy food ingredients.
Sustainable food systems guarantee food security, nutrition, and health, intending not to compromise future generations' economic, social, and environmental circumstances. In order to achieve this sustainability, current food systems must undergo profound changes if they are to meet the requirements feeding the expanding global population. Multidisciplinary integrated approaches are being proposed; from farms to homes, diverse, innovative opportunities are being studied in the efforts to transform the system. Hence, the potential impact on sustainability is massive.
This Special Issue aims to assemble state-of-the-art original research focusing on the sustainability of food systems and the innovations necessary to obtain greener and healthier food ingredients. Owing to this area's growing interest, this Special Issue will collect the most up-to-date insights into the production and characterization of sustainable, safe, and healthy food ingredients. We welcome your contributions in the form of original research articles, reviews, or short communications, covering topics such as:
- Sustainable agriculture and food processing;
- Biotechnology for sustainable agriculture and food systems;
- Green food production technologies (extraction, conservation, preservation);
- Innovative sustainable sources of food (insects, artificial/synthetic food, microalgae and seaweed, microbial protein, among others);
- Food waste and loss reduction;
- Circular food systems and waste valorization;
- Conversion of food by-products into new ingredients;
- Chemical characterization of sustainable food ingredients;
- Assessment of the biological potential of sustainable food ingredients;
- Toxicological evaluation of sustainable food ingredients;
- Clinical validation of safety and bioefficacy;
- Approval of the new sustainable ingredient as a novel food;
Dr. Miguel Rebollo-Hernanz
Dr. Maria Angeles Martín-Cabrejas
Dr. Silvia Cañas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Agri-food system
- Agroecology
- Bioeconomy
- Biotechnology
- By-product valorization
- Environmentally friendly
- Food and agricultural innovation
- Food safety
- Food waste
- Functional and healthy foods
- Green food technologies
- Phytochemical recovery
- Sustainable agriculture
- Sustainable food systems
- Sustainable ingredients
- Sustainable novel food
- Waste-free production
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