Functional Food: Molecular Nutrition, Emerging Technologies and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Functional foods play a key role in connecting diet, molecular mechanisms, and personalized health. Bioactive compounds act through antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and metabolic pathways, while multi-omics and precision nutrition enable tailored dietary strategies. Advances in emerging extraction technologies enhance the stability and activity of functional ingredients, and molecular nutrition clarifies their cellular signaling effects. This Special Issue welcomes studies on bioactive compounds, multi-omics, precision nutrition, extraction technologies, and mechanistic insights (i.e., interactions with functional foods). We also encourage topics related to the use of new technologies, including omics, to select crop and animal varieties for functional foods, new technologies for the preparation of functional foods, and microbiome interactions with functional foods.

We look forward to receiving your high-quality research articles, reviews, and communications, and to advancing the scientific foundation for the next generation of functional food innovation.

Prof. Dr. Sanggil Lee
Guest Editor

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