Advances in Food and By-Products Processing

Dear Colleagues,

With the ever-increasing challenge of feeding our rapidly growing global population, it has become necessary to provide an adequate supply of high-quality food in an environmentally friendly and efficient manner. In recent years, bioengineering technology has been widely used in food and by-product processing, providing the technical possibility for developing sustainable processes to produce healthy, safe, and nutritious foods. Bioengineering applications in food and by-product processing have led to the production of a wide variety of foods with an enhanced shelf life, functionality, and quality, thus playing a significant role in the maximal utilization of available raw food materials, minimizing their waste-releasing emissions, and improving the comprehensive utilization of by-products. New breakthroughs have been made in biosynthesis engineering, food bioprocess engineering, biomaterials for food packaging, extraction of functional substances, recycling and reuse of by-products, etc.

This Special Issue aims to communicate the latest research on advances in food and by-product processing with bioengineering. High-quality papers within the journal’s scope, including original research reviews and articles, are welcome. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

• All aspects of biosynthesis and metabolic engineering for food production;
• The extraction, processing, and utilization of food and food ingredients with enzymology and bioprocess engineering;
• Application of bioengineering to obtain valuable compounds from food by-products;
• Development and application of biomaterials for food packaging;
• Assessment of beneficial effects of bioactive compounds from food and food by-products;
• Using bioengineering to improve the value, function, and nutrition of food and food by-products.

Dr. Chengli Hou
Prof. Dr. Mingwu Zang
Guest Editors

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