Functional Food and Safety Evaluation: Second Edition
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, and Novel Foods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2026 | Viewed by 29875
Special Issue Editor
Interests: functional food; food safety; toxicology; nutraceutical; Chinese medicine; metabolomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural ingredients from foods have been found to be effective in terms of promoting health and preventing diseases, which is why different cultures commonly use natural ingredients to maintain physical well-being and reduce the risk of chronic diseases. The popularity of using functional foods to promote health is increasing, and the global functional food market has expanded in recent decades. Further in-depth research on the mechanistic pathways and safety evaluation of functional foods could encourage functional food producers to develop high-quality products for consumers.
Potential topics of interest in this Special Issue include but are not limited to:
(i) mechanistic studies on food functional ingredients;
(ii) clinical evaluation of functional foods
(iii) risk–benefit assessment of functional foods. The submission of original research articles, reviews, and short communications is encouraged.
Dr. Shun Wan Chan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional foods
- food safety
- nutraceutical
- food ingredients
- antioxidants
- food toxicology
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