Cold – Pressed Oils and Use of By-Products of Oil Pressing in Food Applications

Dear Colleagues,

One of the most important challenges of our time is the need for a renewed focus on the problem of resource efficiency, especially in food production. This trend—related to the circular economy—is particularly relevant for the recycling of byproducts. In this context, significant research is currently being carried out in oil pressing.

The cold pressing of oils is an environmentally friendly approach to their processing. The quality and safety of the obtained oils are primarily influenced by the raw material (its physico-chemical factors, fatty acid composition, and bioactive compounds content), the oil pressing and purifying process, or its storage conditions. The byproduct is a press cake, which has high nutritional value and can be a valuable component in food production. Thanks to the management of press cakes, cold pressing may be in line with a "zero waste" ideology.

Currently, many research teams are conducting research related to the use of press cakes in various food applications (confectionery, pastry production, vegetable substitutes for meat products, pasta production, yoghurts, etc.). Researchers are creating innovative food products that use the byproducts of vegetable oils. Sharing our research results in this Special Issue can help food producers look at byproducts differently and use them in new food applications.

In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to contribute original research and review articles that analyse and describe the nutritional quality and bioactive compounds in cold-pressed oils and their byproducts. Research covering the use of such byproducts in food applications is of particular interest.

The impact factor of Foods is 5.561, and the journal consistently publishes high-quality manuscripts. We believe that Foods is an excellent forum for the publication of your research.

The submission deadline is February 2023. You are invited to submit your manuscripts between the present and the deadline; papers will be published on an ongoing basis after processing. Please prepare submissions in compliance with the instructions we provide for our authors. For more details about the submission process, please see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/instructions.

Articles will be subject to peer review, and participation in the peer review process is not a guarantee of manuscript acceptance. Foods is a fully open access journal, and articles are subject to the charges described in the author guidelines.

We invite you to contact the Section Managing Editor of Foods Serena Wang: serena.wang@mdpi.com, if you are interested in this project.

Dr. Katarzyna Ratusz
Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Wroniak
Dr. Edyta Symoniuk
Guest Editors

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