Development and Characterization of Innovative Food Matrices and Ingredients

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, titled “Development and Characterization of Innovative Food Matrices and Ingredients”.

In recent years, the search for new food matrices or ingredients has become a pivotal issue in the Food Science sector. The remarkable interest in this topic is due to several factors, mainly related to the need for nutritionally valuable and environmentally sustainable food alternatives.

Moreover, new food matrices/ingredients often have biological activities that make them potentially applicable in the nutraceutical sector.

The present Special Issue will gather papers that cover innovative trends in this field, namely the chemical, nutritional, safety, and biological characterization of innovative food matrices and ingredients; development of approaches to change and/or improve food matrices nutritional profiles; and isolation of single compounds or mixtures to be used as food ingredients or nutraceuticals.

Prof. Dr. Luisa Mannina
Dr. Mattia Spano
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Foods is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.