Healthier Meat and Meat Products: Nutritional Benefits and Effects on Human Health
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Meat".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 September 2025 | Viewed by 151
Special Issue Editors
Interests: meat quality; functional components; nutritional values
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Interests: food chemistry; food analysis; food processing; meat processing; food preservation; muscle; fatty acids; functional foods
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Interests: bioactive peptides; meat quality; meat flavour
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Meat and meat products represent important sources of dietary and nutritional benefits. With consumers becoming more health-conscious and having higher demands, the nutritional values of meat and meat products and their effects on metabolism have received more and more attention. This Special Issue will focus on processing technologies for healthy meat products, the identification and selection of functional components in meat and meat products, and the relationship between a meat diet and gut health, as well as the regulatory mechanisms linking meat-derived bioactive components and chronic metabolic diseases. Overall, with the progress currently being made in the field of meat science, novel meat processing and consumption methods can allow for a healthier approach to meat diets.
Prof. Dr. Wangang Zhang
Dr. Marzena Zając
Dr. Lujuan Xing
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- meat quality
- nutritional values
- functional ingredients
- novel technologies
- chronic metabolic diseases
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