Mass Spectrometry-Based Techniques in Food and Natural Product Analysis
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 1911
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food chemistry; natural products; bioactive compounds; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; ambient mass spectrometry; direct-MS analysis
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Interests: food chemistry; nutraceuticals; phytochemistry; phytocomplexes; antiaging; inflammation; antimicrobial; antiviral
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, consumers pay increasing attention to high-quality foods from a defined geographical origin as a guarantee of healthiness and food safety. In the same way, there is a growing global interest in natural products, not merely as food sources but also for their industrial value in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors. These products are associated with health benefits for humans due to their high phytochemical content and antioxidant and antimicrobial activities, and are attractive due to their sensory and textural properties.
Many efforts have been made toward the development of accurate and reliable analytical methods useful for safety and quality evaluation as well as the establishment of the authenticity and traceability of foodstuffs and natural products. These analytical strategies comprise various untargeted and targeted approaches employed for marker compound identification, detection of adulterated materials, and/or for the analysis of secondary metabolites (polyphenols, carotenoids, glucosinolates, alkaloids etc.) playing essential roles in crop yield and nutritional quality control, which contribute to color, taste, aroma, and other specific traits essential as authenticity markers or geographical provenience.
In this framework, mass spectrometry (MS) represents a valid tool, whether used alone or combined with chromatographic techniques, and is widely employed in food and agricultural industry and research laboratories for quality control analyses. Continuous improvements have been made in the related instrumentation, leading to the introduction of alternative and innovative MS-based techniques.
MS-based targeted approaches focus on the identification of a set of known and specific metabolites, such as phytochemicals belonging to a defined chemical class or quantification of one or more analytical targets for “profiling” and natural products and food quality control. Conversely, untargeted analysis or “fingerprinting” simultaneously detects numerous unspecified targets or data points, and has been successfully applied for matrix authentication, origin traceability, and consequently the detection of fraudulent activities.
We welcome, for the present Special Issue, review articles and original research papers presenting advances and applications of MS-based methods in targeted and untargeted analysis of food and natural matrices, in order to provide an overview of the state of the art and recent innovations in the field.
Dr. Domenica Mangraviti
Prof. Dr. Matteo Micucci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food analysis
- natural products
- chromatography
- mass spectrometry
- targeted
- untargeted
- profiling
- fingerprinting
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