Nutritional Aspects of Cereals and Biofortification

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit short communications, research, or review articles to the Special Issue entitled “Nutritional Aspects of Cereals and Biofortification”.

Humans and animals depend on many different cereals as food sources, due to the long list of benefits of cereals’ grains. Grains are nutritionally important sources of dietary protein, iron, vitamin B complex, vitamin E, carbohydrates, niacin, riboflavin, thiamine, fibre, traces of minerals, etc. Therefore, their consumption appears to be associated with many health benefits. In particular, the consumption of whole grains may play a role in the prevention of chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, and colorectal cancer.

Furthermore, foods can be fortified, wherein extra nutrients are added to help make up for the vitamins and minerals lacking in people’s diets. Recent advances in biofortification, using different approaches like foliar fertilizer, plant breeding, and genetic engineering, as well as its utilization for the improvement of the nutritional quality of cereals, are becoming more and more frequent.

This Special Issue aims to collect articles focusing on the following topics:

• Improving the nutritional value of cereals;
• The roles of micronutrients and macronutrients in food safety;
• Cereal grain constituents and climate change;
• Cereal biofortification.

Furthermore, this Special Issue will help breeders to target the relevant traits to be improved, in order to achieve an increased nutritional quality of cereal grains, while maintaining grain yield.

Dr. Valentina Španić
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• cereals
• nutrition
• micronutrients
• macronutrients
• biofortification