Bioactive Compounds in Foods and Their Role in Disease Prevention
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 129
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutrition and health; functional foods; bioactive compounds; bioactivity and bioavailability; phytochemicals and chronic diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bioactive compounds are food ingredients with increased scientific interest due to their important implications in the food industry and their possible beneficial effects on human health.
We are pleased to announce this Special Issue titled “Bioactive Compounds in Foods and Their Role in Disease Prevention”. This Special Issue aims to provide a venue for networking and communication between Applied Sciences and scholars in the field of bioactive compounds, such as vitamins, metals, bioactive peptides, polysaccharides, fatty acids, polyphenols, terpenoids, and other phytochemicals and nutraceuticals, and their role in natural and processed functional foods as factors that could enhance disease prevention and health promotion, as well as recent trends about the production of innovative functional foods with possible health
Dr. Antonios E. Koutelidakis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional foods
- bioactive compounds
- nutraceuticals
- phytochemicals
- health promotion
- disease prevention
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