Food Intake Biomarkers

Dear Colleagues,

Food and nutrition play key roles in supporting health and preventing disease. The need for a precise measurement of dietary exposure in order to evaluate accurately its relationships with health outcomes is already broadly recognized. In this field, food intake biomarkers have emerged as a promising tool for this finality.

Our knowledge of biomarkers of food intake increased during the last few years significantly, but many gaps still exist in this complex research discipline. Significant amounts of work are still needed before biomarkers can be fully used in nutritional epidemiology or in nutritional intervention studies. On the other hand, it has become clear that traditional dietary questionnaires suffer from both systematic and random biases. In an attempt to overcome the limitations of self-reported methods, there is increasing interest in combining these two disciplines in a novel strategy to make dietary assessment more reliable.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect innovative papers deriving from different and complementary expertises concerning “Food Intake Biomarkers”. We invite researchers to contribute both with original research articles, as well as review articles focused on the development of new biomarkers of dietary intake and/or the application to intervention studies to understand the underlying mechanisms of action. We warmly welcome research papers that show novel applications in nutrition, and biomarker discovery, including structure elucidations for new compounds.

Dr. Mar Garcia-Aloy
Dr. Marynka Ulaszewska
Guest Editors

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• food intake
• dietary assessment
• dietary biomarkers
• food intake biomarkers
• metabolomics
• mass spectrometry
• NMR
• quantitative metabolite profiling
• untargeted metabolomic profiling