New Insights into Sources of Nutrients and Bioactive Compounds in Foods—2nd Edition
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 1543
Special Issue Editors
2. Collegium Medicum, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Kraków, Poland
Interests: bioactive compounds; medicinal plants; antioxidants; edible insects; functional food; plant-based food additives; waste management in food system; plant-based meat analogues; biopolymers
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Interests: LC-MS/MS; ITP; solid phase extraction; liquid–liquid extraction; non-ionic surfactant; selenium speciation; pharmaceutical residues
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Interests: thermogravimetric analysis; scanning electron microscopy; FT-IR spectroscopy; X-ray diffraction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Given the great success of the first volume of the Special Issue “New Insights into Sources of Nutrients and Bioactive Compounds in Foods” and the academic relevance of this topic, the journal Foods welcomes a second volume and invites authors to submit their new research to this Special Issue.
The agri-food industry generates huge amounts of waste every day, which is a serious problem for the environment. Therefore, the slogan "from waste to resources" has been promoted to reintroduce food waste into the economy as new raw materials—not only as nutrients, but also, above all, as compounds with targeted biological activity that can be used in the production of foods, including functional food. In this Special Issue of Foods, we would like to provide up-to-date information regarding novel and important achievements and the main challenges related to the isolation, characterization and uses of bioactive compounds in food science and technology.
Considering the abovementioned global circumstances, we would like to encourage leading scientists working on the topics of bioactive food, as well as those studying the biological activities of novel food ingredients, to submit original research or review papers. In particular, we invite original research papers and reviews that address any aspect of the use of novel bioactive compounds for food production and human nutrition. Papers on the study of medicinal plant bioactivity are also welcome.
Dr. Przemysław Kowalczewski
Dr. Joanna Zembrzuska
Dr. Paweł Jezowski
Guest Editors
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Foods is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- alternative sources of nutrients
- antioxidants
- bioactive peptides
- biotechnological and nanotechnological methods in food technology
- isolation and characterization of bioactive compounds
- medicinal plants
- naturally derived active ingredients
- novel raw materials for food production
- phenolic compounds
- waste and by-product valorization
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