Agri-Food: Processing Techniques and Nutritional Composition Analysis
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Grain".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: functional foods; whole grain products; cereal processing and quality improvement; nutraceutical and bioactive compounds
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Interests: whole grains; bioactive compounds; glycolipid metabolism; energy metabolism; molecular nutrition; development of novel functional food products
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Facing the global food crisis and continuing concerns over food waste, it is important to strengthen our ability to ensure food security, especially the efficient supply of safe agri-food. This is the purpose of launching this Special Issue, entitled "Agri-Food: Processing Techniques and Nutritional Composition Analysis". Our goal is to gather innovative research that contributes to maintaining agri-food safety and improving the quality of agricultural products.
We invite you to share your work on the following topics:
Improving agri-food processing and preservation: novel techniques or methods to preserve agricultural products with minimal quality losses and long shelf-life.
Enhancing nutritional components activity and function: applying innovative approach to improve the bioavailability or bioaccessibility of food active components, or using eco-friendly techniques to enhance the contents of bioactive compounds in agri-food.
Developing functional foods from agricultural byproducts: innovative research focusing on the comprehensive utilization of agricultural byproducts, which helps to promote the economic benefits and reduce food waste.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ziyuan Wang
Prof. Dr. Jie Liu
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- agricultural products
- food processing and preservation
- food nutrition
- functional components analysis
- development of functional food
- comprehensive utilization of agricultural byproducts
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