Special Issue "Applied Microbiology in Food Technology"

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 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ester Betoret
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Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 46980 Paterna, Spain
Interests: food science and technology; food processing and engineering; functional food
Dr. Noelia Betoret
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Instituto Universitario de Ingeniería de Alimentos para el Desarrollo, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: food engineering; food processing; food science and technology; food waste valorization; functional foods development
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The importance of probiotic functional foods is already clear for science, governments, industries, and universities. A huge scientific knowledge on the effect of probiotic microorganisms, microbiota, and host health is being developed. An increased knowledge of the metabolic routes in the human organism, the development of innovative techniques to enhance probiotic properties, and the identification of bacterial consortia through bioinformatics are some of the most significant advances.

Probiotic foods can help to prevent or improve the treatment of physiological disorders (digestive, immune, metabolic, etc.), and they also represent a potential alternative strategy to fight excessive use of antibiotics which can produce antibiotic resistances and result in a high cost for European health systems, waste generation, and effluent contamination. However, the effectiveness of probiotic microorganisms is conditioned by several factors.

Foods are mostly complex mixtures of macro- and microcomponents organized in a structure that can trap active compounds, modulating their release or inhibiting their activity. There is currently little information regarding the extent to which the benefits of probiotics depend on the food matrix in which they are delivered.

This Special Issue focuses on research studies devoted to studying the effect of food technologies on probiotic microorganisms incorporated into a food matrix (liquid, solid or foam). Scientific or review papers addressed at determining the bioaccessibility of probiotic microorganisms after food processing or storage are welcome. Studies to elucidate, via in depth analysis, the interactions among ingredients during fermentation and processing, the determination of the functional properties of the probiotic microorganisms, and their interplay through gastrointestinal passage are topics of special interest.

Dr. Ester Betoret
Dr. Noelia Betoret
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • probiotic
  • functional foods
  • technology
  • processing
  • bioaccessibility

Published Papers

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