The Link Between Food Intake, Gut Microbiota and Human Health
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2026 | Viewed by 186
Special Issue Editors
Interests: analytical chemistry; functional foods; human nutrition; gut microbiota; metabolomics; foodomics; gene expression
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: microbioma; viroma; functional foods; human nutrition; gut microbiota; metabolomics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: microbioma; viroma; functional foods; human nutrition; gut microbiota; metabolomics.functional foods; food-borne pathogens; microbiota; metabolomics; genomics; lipomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are launching this edition where our interest is to address the impacts of diet–gut microbiota interactions on human health, considering various nutritional, regulatory, metabolic, physiological aspects and those that involve how different diets and, in general, different ways of eating affect the composition of the intestinal microbiota and how this relationship influences the appearance or development of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
In this Special Issue, we extend an invitation to the scientific community to submit their latest advances in the knowledge of the complex interactions between gut microbiota and health. Manuscripts describing the effects of bioactive compounds, as well as food ingredients and nutrients, on the different microbial populations in the human gut are welcome. Furthermore, the effects of eubiosis-altering agents, as well as dysbiosis-correcting agents—such as prebiotics, probiotics, symbiotics, or postbiotics—are of great interest for this Special Issue.
Research articles and reviews focused on the following topics are of particular interest to this Special Issue:
- Food components that can alter the human intestinal microbiota.
- Nutritional strategies: use of prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics, and dietary bioactive compounds, in restoring gut microbiota balance.
- The role of gut microbiota and physical activity in maintaining overall human health and preventing NTDs
Prof. Dr. Alberto Cepeda Sáez
Dr. Jose M. Miranda
Dr. Alexandre Lamas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gut microbiota
- probiotics
- postbiotics
- prebiotics
- non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
- dietary compounds
- dysbiosis
- intestinal metatranscriptomics
- intestinal metabolomics
- intestinal metaproteomics
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