Cereal: Storage, Processing, and Nutritional Attributes (Third Edition)
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Grain".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 1043
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cereal quality evaluation; quality control; grain nutritional attributes
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Interests: cereal storage; cereal processing; quality control; cereal geographical traceability
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Interests: cereal; functional food; natural products; gut microbiota; bioactivities
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first and second editions (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/special_issues/P6U5ZU38G5, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/special_issues/8371YKDK2J) of this Special Issue were incredibly successful. We would like to express our gratitude to everyone involved for their participation, as well as for the support of numerous high-profile scientists. The topic of “Cereal: Storage, Processing, and Nutritional Attributes” continues to play a pivotal role today, and it is for this reason that we believe it is now time for Volume III to be launched, which we hope will be equally successful.
Cereal is the main source of energy and nutrition for human survival. For a long time, the changes in cereal grain quality during storage and processing and their effects on end-product quality have been a central focus of the industry. In recent years, the reduction in cereal waste in storage and processing; the changes in cereal quality, especially nutritional quality, during storage and processing; and the impact on human nutritional health have received increasing attention.
For this reason, this Special Issue of Foods on “Cereal: Storage, Processing, and Nutritional Attributes (Third Edition)” is being released, focusing on the changes in cereal quality, especially nutritional quality, during storage and processing, and the spatiotemporal variations in the major nutritional quality of cereals. The aim is to provide new insights or methods for the development of high-quality, nutritious, and healthy cereal-based foods. This Special Issue will include a selection of recent research and current review articles that focus on the above aims.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Cereal quality evaluation methods;
- The distribution and variation in nutrients in cereal grains and different cereal varieties;
- Cereal quality changes during storage, milling, drying, baking, boiling, steaming, etc.;
- Spatiotemporal variations in cereal quality, especially nutritional quality;
- New progress regarding specific bioactive ingredients associated with health benefits.
Dr. Yingquan Zhang
Prof. Dr. Boli Guo
Prof. Dr. Lingxiao Gong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wheat
- rice
- oats
- corn
- buckwheat
- cereal grain storage
- cereal grain processing
- nutritional attributes
- cereal grain-based foods
- whole grain
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