Physicochemical Characteristics of Food Polysaccharides, Starches, and Gels
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Physics and (Bio)Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2026 | Viewed by 8458
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food gels; phase separation; light scattering; NMR
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Interests: binding interactions between food components and the structure-activity relationships; the extraction and nutritional evaluation of natural products; the effects of food constituents on starch digestion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food polysaccharides, including starch and other non-starchy polysaccharides, have long been important throughout the history of the human diet. As the food industry has been gaining increasing impetus recently to create desired nutritional profiles and to improve the sensory perception of food products, we expect the continued increase in importance in understanding the physicochemical characteristics of food polysaccharides, such as their hydration process and solubility, associative structures in solution, gelation properties, interfacial behaviors, and interactions with other food components. A typical example is that polysaccharide food gels have recently been appreciated as a good candidate for developing health-care foods for the elderly with dysphagia. Due to the great complexity in chemical structures, however, it is very challenging to describe the physicochemical properties of a broad range of food polysaccharides by generalizing a universal theoretical framework. Therefore, expanding the detailed knowledge on food polysaccharides regarding their basic physicochemical properties and new food applications by experimental investigation is still necessary and in urgent need. Fortunately, significant progress has been made in the past few decades. In this Special Issue, we wish to make a collection of papers that focus on the physicochemical characteristics of food polysaccharides, starches, and gels to offer a communication platform to interested readers.
Dr. Xi Yang
Dr. Lijun Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polysaccharides
- starch
- gels
- physicochemical properties
- gelation
- emulsification
- food products
- interactions
- texture
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