Innovative Technologies for Functional Foods Development
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food science and technology; plant food bioactive compounds; functional foods and ingredients
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food science and technology; natural food matrix; food additives; functional foods and ingredients
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: plant food bioactive compounds; chemical and sensory food analysis; nutrition
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Functional foods provide disease-preventing and health-promoting effects when consumed as part of a balanced diet. In this context, functional foods, which contain components, nutrients, or bioactive compounds exerting selective beneficial effects on one or more functions of the organism, are widely distributed in the food market.
From a technological point of view, today, there is a great variability of procedures that allow for the development of functional foods. Apart from traditional technologies conventionally used in food processing, in recent decades, innovative technologies have emerged. These innovative technologies applied to functional food development include the extrusion process, high hydrostatic pressure, microencapsulation, and the use of edible films and coatings, among others.
In this Special Issue of Molecules, we would like to bring together papers dealing with the topic of Innovative technologies for functional food development. In broad terms, the study of the effect of these methods on phytochemicals present in functional foods coming from vegetables, fruits, cereals, and pulses, among others, and the study of the potential bioactivity (in vitro and in vivo), potential health effects, and reduction in disease risk, as well as effects on disease biomarkers, will be considered.
We welcome different types of manuscripts, including original research articles and up-to-date reviews (systematic reviews and meta-analyses). Topics may include the development of functional foods by applying innovative technologies, as well as the characterization of the developed food products in terms of their content of bioactive compounds and their bioactive properties.
Dr. Maria Ciudad-Mulero
Dr. Patricia Morales
Prof. Dr. Virginia Fernández-Ruiz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nutraceuticals
- functional foods
- plant ingredients
- phytochemicals
- health claims, in vitro and in vivo studies
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