Functional Beverages—Current Concepts Through to Implementation into the Food Chain

Dear Colleagues,

The field of functional beverages is a rapidly growing sector of the food industry globally. Functional beverages are developed and designed to provide consumers with additional potential health benefits that extend beyond their nutritional composition and possess appealing sensory characteristics. Processing technologies of functional beverages can be traditional/conventional or advanced and the new technological applications are continuously being implemented. This also adds to the wide array of food ingredients that are emerging on the food market and allows their use in the manufacturing of functional beverages, offering endless formulation opportunities.

This Special Issue is expected to provide up-to-date information on all aspects of research innovations and high-quality reviews on processing, storage and packaging technologies, physico-chemical, microbiological and sensory aspects, functional properties, quality and safety, nutrition and health benefits of functional beverages. This Special Issue is also open for submission of concept papers, reviews and original research manuscripts.

Dr. Senaka Ranadheera
Prof. Dr. Nenad Naumovski
Dr. Duane D. Mellor
Guest Editors

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