Section Editors
- Editorial Board
- Food Physics and (Bio)Chemistry Section
- Food Engineering and Technology Section
- Food Quality and Safety Section
- Food Analytical Methods Section
- Food Microbiology Section
- Food Nutrition Section
- Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Section
- Food Security and Sustainability Section
- Food Packaging and Preservation Section
- Sensory and Consumer Sciences Section
- Foodomics Section
- Food Toxicology Section
- Food Systems Section
- Food Biotechnology Section
- Meat Section
- Foods of Marine Origin Section
- Plant Foods Section
- Grain Section
- Dairy Section
- Drinks and Liquid Nutrition Section
Section Board for 'Food Security and Sustainability' (18)
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Interests: food technology; food engineering; food safety; food quality; extra virgin olive oil; mycotoxins, fermented foods
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Foods: Qualitative Analysis of Food Products
Special Issue in Foods: Extra Virgin Olive Oil Quality, Safety, and Authenticity
Special Issue in Foods: Occurrence, Importance and Control Strategies of Major Mycotoxins in Foods-Prevention and Detoxification
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Advances in Food Processing (Food Preservation, Food Safety, Quality and Manufacturing Processes)
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: New Insights in Oral Health and Diets
Special Issue in Foods: Foods: 10th Anniversary
Special Issue in Foods: Implementation of Chemometrics and Other Techniques as Means of Authenticity and Traceability to Detect Adulteration in Foods for the Protection of Human Health
Special Issue in Microorganisms: Microbial Diversity of Fermented Food
Special Issue in Foods: Scientific Insights and Technological Advances in Gluten Free Products Development
Special Issue in Foods: Frontiers on Sustainable Food Packaging
Special Issue in Foods: The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Foods - "Future Foods and Food Technologies for a Sustainable World" (Foods 2021)
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Dietary Interventions for Human General and Oral Health and Disease Reduction
Interests: dairy; milk; cheese; fermented dairy products; non-thermal food processing technologies; dairy rheology; hygienic design; dairy-based beverages

Interests: waste utilisation; plant bioactives; cereal science; postharvest; novel technologies
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Foods: Biochemical Changes in Postharvest Fruits and Vegetables with Impact in Quality
Special Issue in Horticulturae: Sustainable Horticulture under Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
Special Issue in Chemistry: Complex Emulsions: Advances and Applications in Food Systems
Special Issue in Horticulturae: Valorisation of Horticultural Side-Streams
Special Issue in Foods: Essential Oils in Food Preservation: Advances in Recovery and Utilisation
Interests: food, dairy and wine microbiology; microbial food safety; functional foods; bioactive packaging of foods; food biotechnology
Interests: olive oil; volatile compounds; chromatography; geographic origin; varietal origin; food analysis; pesticides; MIP technology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Interests: deals with the innovation and optimization of agro-food industry equipment and plants, design of the food pilot plants and their implementation in the industrial environmental; sensors and real time process control; processes settings; influence of the machine design parameters on food quality; other scientific targets are the waste management; composting systems, harvesting mechanization system and harvesting machine
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Agriculture 4.0: From Precision Agriculture to Smart Farming
Special Issue in Foods: Innovation and Optimization in the Olive Oil Extraction Industry
Interests: novel antimicrobials; biofilms; cold plasma biosciences; non-thermal processing; sustainable food production - cellular agriculture; food safety
Interests: utilization of agro-food industry and aquaculture wastes; components with functional properties (carotenoids, polyphenols); food safety; spoilage and pathogenic bacteria and molds; fishery products; dairy industry products

Interests: fermented foods; wine and beer microbiology; aroma of wine and beverages; alcoholic beverages
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Foods: Probiotics: Technological Aspects, Development of Dairy Foods
Special Issue in Foods: Cereal-Based Fermented Foods: Bioactive Components and Potential Health Benefits
Special Issue in Foods: Research Advances in Wine Technology and Microbiology

Interests: food technology; functional food; bioactive compounds; natural antioxidants; meat quality; emerging technologies; healthier meat products
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food microbiology, food safety, food fermentation, lactic acid bacteria; probiotics; prebiotics; wine microbiology; organic acid production, malolactic fermentation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; non-Saccharomyces; alcoholic fermentation; spoilage microbes; fermented beverages; bioconversion process, biofortification; foodborne pathogens; toxins degradation; rapid methods for detection and other related topics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Foods: Natural Antimicrobials and Their Applications in Foods
Special Issue in Molecules: Current Issues in Food Microbiology, Safety and Fermentation
Topical Collection in Microbiology Research: Microbiology and Technology of Fermented Foods
Topics: Recent Advances and Insights in Storage, Spoilage and Shelf Life of Foods

Interests: tailoring functional and chemical properties of cereal and alternative plant sources in view of developing specific healthy foods and ingredients; other topics of interest include dough rheology, structural and functional characterization of biopolymers, mycotoxin analysis and risk assessment
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Foods: Scientific Insights and Technological Advances in Gluten Free Products Development
Special Issue in Foods: New Insights into Cereals and Cereal-Based Foods, Volume II
Interests: characterization of phenolic compounds in plant foods; liquid chromatography (HPLC) mass spectrometry analysis; technological processes in order to improve the quality of legumes; structural analysis and physico-chemical properties in red wines; bioavailability and biological activity of dietary flavonoids; influence of phenolic compounds on sensorials characteristics (astringency)
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Foods: Applications of Natural Products in Foods
Special Issue in Foods: New Trends for the Adaption of Agri-Food Industries to Climatic Change

Interests: natural antioxidants; valorization of agrofood industry co-products; sustainable extraction; functional food
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Foods: Bioactive Food Ingredients for Safe and Health-Promoting Functional Foods
Special Issue in Foods: Extraction, Characterization and Application of Natural Product in Foods
Special Issue in Foods: Extraction, Characterization and Application of Natural Product in Foods—Volume II
Interests: fruit, vegetable and mushroom processing; food by-product recovery; food security; food sustainability; natural antioxidants and antiglycation agents; enzymatic and non-enzymatic browning
Interests: analytical methods; trace elements; chemical contaminants; food composition & characterization & processing; food sustainability; cereals & pulses; fruits & vegetables; sampling; fish; global nutrition

Interests: olive oil; table olive; antioxidants; extraction
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food safety; risk analysis; quantitative risk assessment; food safety engineering; predictive microbiology; molecular epidemiology; food quality; HACCP; food process engineering