Advances in High-Quality or Value-Added Processing of Fruits and Vegetables—Second Edition
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Product Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 81
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fruit and vegetables; clean processing; phytochemicals; polysaccharides
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Interests: modem molecular sensing technology; flavor material analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fruits and vegetables are widely considered to be healthy foods, and their consumption in large quantities every day is encouraged by experts. As a result of the accelerated pace of life today, processed products and nutritional supplements from fruits and vegetables are becoming increasingly popular. Processing, however, is plagued by two main problems—food quality decrease and processing waste pollution with no value-added utilization. Food quality decrease is generally related to processing factors, raw food material properties, storage conditions, etc. Fruit and vegetable processing pollution is due to the various food wastes, such as peels, residues, seeds, leaves, processing water, etc., which can be developed into nutritional or useful byproducts to meet zero-waste and green process goals. Many studies have focused on these areas, producing useful information, but many aspects remain unsolved due to the vast variety of fruits and vegetables and the different processes for each.
This Special Issue is a continuation of the previous Special Issue. It still focuses on the quality promotion of fruits and vegetables after processing and the utilization of their byproducts to create a clean process. This Special Issue welcomes a broad range of studies related to fruit and vegetable characterization, processing, storage, quality, waste analysis, byproduct utilization, etc. Original research articles and reviews are accepted.
Dr. Jianle Chen
Dr. Huan Cheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fruit and vegetables
- process
- storage
- quality
- waste
- byproduct
- function
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