Foods, Volume 13, Issue 17

Ficus drupacea is a fruit-bearing tree that is distributed in Southeast Asia and Australia. The objective of this research was to ascertain the following with regard to ripened fruits: (i) their nutritional value, (ii) their mineral status, (iii) the...

Pathogen contamination is a severe problem in maintaining food safety in the cold chain. Cold plasma (CP) is a novel non-thermal disinfection method that can be applied for the bacterial inactivation of food in appropriate contexts. Currently, resear...

This study addresses the growing interest in natural functional ingredients by evaluating the prebiotic and health-promoting functions of honeybee brood biopeptides (HBb-Bps) and their conjugates. The purpose was to investigate their antioxidant acti...

The freshness of raw fish has become one of the industry’s and consumers’ main concerns regarding quality, safety, and shelf-life estimation. To determine the freshness of the king weakfish (Macrodom ancylodom), the quality index method (...

Yellow tea (YT), a slightly fermented tea with a unique yellowing process and mellow taste, is becoming widely popular. Currently, the YT includes bud yellow tea (BYT), small-leaf yellow tea (SYT), and large-leaf yellow tea (LYT) based on maturity of...

Meat products containing Vitamin D3 (VD3) are an innovative option that could contribute to reducing deficiencies in this micronutrient. Designing nanoemulsions that carry VD3 is the first step in developing functional meat products. Thereby, this st...

Storing ground beef at frozen temperatures prior to refrigerated display when using thermoforming vacuum packaging is not a common manufacturing practice. However, limited data on thermoforming packaging film and its interaction with meat quality sug...

The growing consumer demand for natural and eco-friendly food products motivates the development and evaluation of new and natural inputs for the food industry. So, this work explores the potential of grape pomace (GP) from winemaking, a food product...

The sensory quality of infant formula (IF) has a significant impact on the preferences and purchasing behavior of maternal consumers. Consumer-based rapid descriptive methods have become popular and are widely preferred over classical methods, but th...

While Switzerland has made some progress over the past few decades in treating men and women more equally, this study intends to find out whether Swiss men and women’s food consumption patterns also converged between 1990 and 2017. After analys...