Metabolomics in Food

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, metabolomics has become one of the most important tools in the field of medicine and life science, as well as in the research of food science. Convectional food research often focuses on limited chemical components or nutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals, etc.), while metabolomics provides a holistic view on food and its effects, emphasizing the analysis of “metabolic profiling” or “metabolic fingerprinting” based on thousands of chemical compositions in food itself or endogenous metabolic components in food-intake organisms. Metabolomics provides more powerful data support for food identification, safety assurance, food processing, and quality control and can be used to comprehensively evaluate the nutritional and biological effects (sensory, toxicity or health promoting) of food and to explore its molecular mechanism.

This Special Issue of Foods, entitled “Metabolomics in Food”, will cover metabolomics study in food science, including food quality control, nutrition analysis, functional evaluation, mechanism exploration, etc. Researchers are warmly invited to submit their original contributions (reviews, original research papers, short communications) to this Special Issue.

Dr. Shikai Yan
Dr. Minjie Gao
Guest Editors

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