Fruits and Vegetables: Physicochemical Properties, Product Development and Health Benefits
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Foods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 November 2025 | Viewed by 63
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fruit and vegetables; legumes; antioxidants; peptides; health; food nutrition; bioactive compounds; nanotechnology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fruits and vegetables offer more than just a reliable energy boost and a source of essential micronutrients. They contain biologically active phytochemicals that contribute to maintaining human health, preventing several diseases such as heart diseases, digestive problems, aging-related diseases, metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity, and some types of cancer. It is estimated that there are at least nine different families of fruits and vegetables, each with hypothetically hundreds of different bioactive compounds that could offer significant health benefits. Consequently, this Special Issue invites original papers, reviews, and mini-reviews focused on the “Fruits and Vegetables: Physicochemical Properties, Product Development and Health Benefits” of fruits and vegetables. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following: (1) the characterization of the biological activities of fruits and vegetable phytochemicals; (2) the use of phytochemicals for developing bioactive food products and/or packaging; and (3) the evaluation of the bioactive potential of phytochemicals to prevent and/or treat metabolic and non-metabolic diseases.
Prof. Dr. Karla A. Batista
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- phytochemicals
- food products
- healthy food
- bioactive packaging
- food biotechnology
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