The Expanding Role of Metabolomics in Food Analysis, Food Quality, and Personalized Nutrition
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 14
Special Issue Editor
Interests: metabolomics; food analysis; NMR spectroscopy; biofluid profiling; nutritional biomarkers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the launch of this Special Issue, ‘The Expanding Role of Metabolomics in Food Analysis, Food Quality, and Personalized Nutrition’.
Metabolomics is being increasingly recognized as a powerful tool for exploring the chemical complexity of food systems and for assessing how their composition is influenced by agricultural practices, production processes, technological treatments, and storage. These insights are essential not only for ensuring food quality and safety, but also for evaluating the nutritional and health-related properties of foods. Furthermore, metabolomics plays a pivotal role in decoding individual metabolic responses to dietary intake, thereby enabling the development of precision nutrition and personalized dietary interventions.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the growing importance of metabolomics in the field of food science, with a focus on its applications in food analysis, quality assessment, authenticity, and personalized nutrition strategies. Original research articles, reviews, and communications that explore methodological advances, case studies, and innovative approaches involving metabolomics and related omics technologies are welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Metabolomic profiling of foods and beverages;
- Quality control and traceability using metabolomics;
- Food authentication and fraud detection;
- Nutritional metabolomics and personalized nutrition;
- Integration of metabolomics with other omics platforms in food science;
- Advances in analytical techniques for food metabolomics.
Dr. Flaminia Cesare Marincola
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food metabolomics
- nutritional metabolomics
- food quality assessment
- food authenticity
- precision nutrition
- omics technologies
- metabolic profiling
- food traceability
- chemometric analysis
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