New Approaches to Improving the Quality and Safety of Meat and Meat Products
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Meat".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 1942
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lactic acid bacteria; fermentation; bioprotection; microbial quality; functional food; meat products; salt reduction; nitrite; nitrate; new techniques
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Interests: probiotics; prebiotics; functional food; food product development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Meat is one of the most important components of the modern human diet. Due to its highly digestible protein, richness of vitamins and minerals, and bioactive substances, it plays a key role in human nutrition. Following the development of civilization, the meat industry has continuously endeavored to improve the quality of meat and its processing technology.
As a result, efforts are made to improve the sensory, microbiological, physico-chemical, and technological quality of meat and meat products.
The Special Issue that we propose focuses on the new challenges faced by the meat industry. We invite scientists to send manuscripts on a fairly wide range of topics, including the following:
- The use of new technologies in the processing of meat and meat products (e.g. high-pressure processing, irradiation, pulsed electric field, ultrasound, ohmic heating, nanotechnology, etc.);
- The impact of microbiota on the quality of meat and meat products;
- The possibility of reducing the content of nitrites and nitrates, salts, and other ingredients;
- The enrichment of meat and meat products with bioactive and other substances;
- Natural preservatives for meat and meat products;
- Techniques used to reduce oxidative processes;
- Production possibilities and the improvement of cellular (in vitro) meat.
We, the Guest Editors of this Special Issue, look forward to receiving your manuscript proposals.
Dr. Anna Łepecka
Dr. Aleksandra Szydłowska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- meats
- new technology
- new processes
- non-thermal processes
- nitrites
- salt
- lipids
- natural preservatives
- antioxidant
- microorganism
- “artificial meat”
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