Bioactive Compounds in Bee Products: From Analysis to Health Benefits
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 1081
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bee products like honey, propolis, royal jelly, bee pollen, beeswax and bee venom are valued for nutritional and medicinal properties. These natural substances, rich in bioactive compounds such as polyphenols, flavonoids, peptides, enzymes and organic acids, have health-promoting properties like antioxidant and antimicrobial. But, the diversity, complexity and stability of these compounds during processing and digestion challenge functional research.
This Special Issue aims to connect ‘Chemical Analysis’ and ‘Health Benefits’ in bee product bioactive research. We welcome original research and reviews on these topics: (i) separation, identification, and quantitative analysis of bioactive compounds in bee products, (ii) investigation of in vitro and in vivo activity mechanisms, including antioxidant, antimicrobial, etc., (iii) studying in vivo metabolic fate of active ingredients and developing novel delivery systems for stability and bioavailability and (iv) developing methods using bioactive compound fingerprinting to authenticate bee product origin.
Through this Special Issue, we hope to fully elucidate the scientific basis for the exceptional health benefits of bee products and promote their innovative applications in functional foods, nutraceuticals and preventive medicine.
Dr. Jian Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bee products
- bioactive compounds
- separation
- identification
- in vitro and in vivo studies
- analytical methods
- health benefits
- biological and functional activities
- authenticity
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