Food and nutrition play a critical role in preventing noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease and maintaining overall health. Throughout all stages of life, but especially during key developmental stages, nutrition can have a lasting impact. For example, children that have access to a nutritious diet, within the first 2 years of life, have improved cognitive development and are less likely to become overweight later in life. Access to not only enough nutritious food, but also safe food is just as important globally. Unsafe food can contain parasites, viruses, or toxic chemical substances that can have sever health consequences.

MDPI’s cluster of food, nutrition, and health science journals aims to publish high-impact research that will address global health problems related to diet, nutrition, food availability, quality, and safety. These journals provide a dynamic platform for groundbreaking discoveries that will shape the future of global healthy and sustainable nutrition.

The six participating journals are as follows:

• Beverages (ISSN: 2306-5710) focuses on advancing the science and technology of beverages, with special emphasis on fermented and non-fermented drinks, functional beverages, sensory analysis, consumer behavior, novel processing technologies, bioactive compounds, and sustainability in beverage production, while also encompassing nutritional aspects, flavor chemistry, packaging innovations, and health-related effects of beverage consumption. Beverages is led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Edgar Chambers IV (Center for Sensory Analysis and Consumer Behavior, Kansas State University, USA);
• Dietetics (ISSN: 2674-0311) focuses on human dietetics, with special emphasis on diet and human health; dietetic practice and strategy; dietary intervention, assessment, and methodology; dietary behavior; dietetic education; personalized nutrition; community and public health nutrition; nutrition and food science; foodservice systems; dietary supplement; diet quality; eating disorder; foods and beverages; food choice; and food insecurity. Dietetics is led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Bahram H. Arjmandi (Department of Health, Nutrition, and Food Sciences, College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, Florida State University, USA);
• Foods (ISSN: 2304-8158) focuses on food research, with special emphasis on food sciences and technology, food chemistry and physical properties, food engineering and production, food microbiology and safety, food security and sustainability, food toxicology, sensory and food quality, food analysis, functional foods, food and health, food psychology, and food and environment. Foods is led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Arun K. Bhunia (Department of Food Science, Purdue University, USA);
• Nutraceuticals (ISSN: 1661-3821) focuses on the discovery, development, and production of nutraceuticals, with special emphasis on traditional or natural nutraceuticals, nutritional supplements, dietary supplements and functional foods. Nutraceuticals is led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Luisa Tesoriere (Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Palermo, Italy);
• Nutrients (ISSN: 2072-6643) focuses on human nutrition research, with publications covering areas such as macronutrients and micronutrients, bioactive nutrients, exercise nutrition, public health, and diet related diseases. It will consider manuscripts for publication that provide novel insights into the impacts of nutrition on human health or novel methods for assessing nutritional status. This includes manuscripts describing the outcomes of animal studies that have relevance to human health. Nutrients are led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Maria Luz Fernandez (Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, USA) and Prof. Dr. Lluis Serra-Majem (Research Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences (IUIBS), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain);
• Obesities (ISSN: 2673-4168) focuses on studies of obesity in the areas of nutrition, diabetes, bariatric surgery, public health, pediatrics, basic science, exercise, eating disorders, psychology, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, molecular, metabolic, epidemiological aspects of obesity, and related disorders. Articles based on novel ideas are widely invited for cellular- and animal-level studies, as well as human trials and epidemiological studies. Obesities is led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Nobuyuki Takahashi (Laboratory of Physiology and Metabolism, Department of Food Safety and Nutritional Science, Faculty of Applied Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan).

Journals	Launch Year	Impact Factor (2024)	CiteScore (2024)	Time to First Decision (Median)	APC (CHF)
	2015	2.7	4.6	24.1 days	1600
	2022	/	/	26.5 days	1000
	2012	5.1	8.7	14.9 days	2900
	2021	/	/	32.7 days	1000
	2009	5.0	9.1	12.9 days	2900
	2021	1.3	1.8	13.4 days	1200

MDPI’s mission and values:

As a pioneer in academic open access publishing, MDPI has been serving the scientific community since 1996. Our aim is to foster scientific exchange in all forms and across all disciplines. MDPI's guidelines for disseminating open science are based on the following values and guiding principles:

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Selected Topics and Special Issues:

• “Dietary Carbohydrate Chemistry, Nutrition, and Utilization”;
• “Personalized and Sustainable Nutrition for Children and Adolescents: An Important Step for the 2030 Agenda”;
• “Ways to Achieve Healthy and Sustainable Diets”;
• “The Link Between Dietary Patterns and Health Outcomes”;
• “Nutraceuticals and Medicine Foods: Processing Technologies, Metabolic Mechanisms, and Human Health”
  Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Arun K. Bhunia, Prof. Dr. Antonello Santini, Dr. Junhe Yu, Dr. Salar Hafez Ghoran, Dr. Fatemeh Taktaz and Dr. Ahmad Ud Din
  Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025

Selected Articles:

Beverages
“Beer with Probiotics: Benefits and Challenges of Their Incorporation”
by Diana Santos, Luisa Barreiros, Ângelo Jesus, Ana Luísa Silva, João Paulo Martins, Ana Isabel Oliveira and Cláudia Pinho
Beverages 2024, 10(4), 109; https://doi.org/10.3390/beverages10040109

Dietetics
“Dietary Supplements and the Gut–Brain Axis: A Focus on Lemon, Glycerin, and Their Combinations”
by Tai L. Guo, Jarissa Navarro, Maria Isabel Luna and Hannah Shibo Xu
Dietetics 2024, 3(4), 463-482; https://doi.org/10.3390/dietetics3040034

Foods
“Plant-Based Fermented Beverages: Nutritional Composition, Sensory Properties, and Health Benefits”
by Belén Hidalgo-Fuentes, Edgar de Jesús-José, Anselmo de J. Cabrera-Hidalgo, Ofelia Sandoval-Castilla, Teodoro Espinosa-Solares, Ricardo. M. González-Reza, María L. Zambrano-Zaragoza, Andrea M. Liceaga and José E. Aguilar-Toalá
Foods 2024, 13(6), 844; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13060844

Nutraceuticals
“The Effect of Oral GABA on the Nervous System: Potential for Therapeutic Intervention”
by Shahad Almutairi, Amaya Sivadas and Andrea Kwakowsky
Nutraceuticals 2024, 4(2), 241-259; https://doi.org/10.3390/nutraceuticals4020015

Nutrients
“Personalized Nutrition: Tailoring Dietary Recommendations through Genetic Insights”
by Saiful Singar, Ravinder Nagpal, Bahram H. Arjmandi and Neda S. Akhavan
Nutrients 2024, 16(16), 2673; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16162673 

Obesities
“Gut Microbiota and Obesity: The Chicken or the Egg?”
by Daniele S. Tassoni, Rodrigo C. O. Macedo, Felipe M. Delpino and Heitor O. Santos
Obesities 2023, 3(4), 296-321; https://doi.org/10.3390/obesities3040024