Phenolic Antioxidants—2nd Edition
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Extraction and Industrial Applications of Antioxidants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 842
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plants
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Interests: antioxidants; radical scavenging; phenolic and polyphenolic compounds; oxidation control; disease risk reduction; bioactivity; health benefits; action mechanisms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In view of the great response we received to the previous Special Issue “Phenolic Antioxidants”, we have decided to revisit this topic.
Phenolic compounds include tocopherols and tocotrienols, collectively known as tocols, with vitamin E activity, as well as secondary plant metabolites (i.e., phenolic acids, flavonoids, stilbenes, coumarins, lignans, and tannins). Phenolic compounds protect plants and plant foods from biotic and abiotic oxidative stress as well as herbivory. This property remains important therefore until the post-harvest time. From the food processing standpoint, lipid oxidation is the most important deterioration problem faced by the food industry. The consequences of lipid oxidation are noted mainly by the negative changes found in terms of nutritional quality, food safety, and the sensory characteristics of food. Therefore, natural antioxidants are also crucial ingredients employed by the food industry to decrease and/or prevent lipid oxidation. However, phenolic compounds are not only good for plant health, but also engender a myriad of other bioactivities. The health benefits of phenolic compounds, in vitro and in vivo, are supported by epidemiological, animal, and human studies. Phenolics may act as free radical terminators, metal chelators, but their antioxidant properties are also important to overcoming inflammatory responses caused by different factors including exposure to xenobiotics and pathogenic microorganisms.
This Special Issue invites contributions addressing the antioxidant properties of phenolic compounds in plants, plant foods, and the by-products thereof as well as their metabolites and derivatives. Original articles or review papers focusing on phenolic antioxidants and their impact on agronomical/plant science, food science, nutrition and health will be considered.
Dr. Adriano Costa de Camargo
Prof. Dr. Fereidoon Shahidi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phenolics
- phenolic compounds
- antioxidants
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