Chemical Analysis of Plant Non-volatile Extracts and Essential Oils in Light of Their Application in Food
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Physics and (Bio)Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 January 2024) | Viewed by 3348
Special Issue Editors
Interests: essential oils; bioactive compounds; medicinal and aromatic plants; sensory quality; sensory analysis; appetite; GC-MS; GC-O; LC-MS/MS
Interests: food quality; food safety; bioactive compounds; sensory analysis; consumer acceptance of food products; almonds; nuts; tropical fruits; water stress; stress markers; water scarcity; deficit irrigation strategies; spray drying; microencapsulation; probiotic bacteria
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Interests: essential oil; biotransformation; volatile compounds; organic synthesis; GC-MS analysis; NMR analysis; herbs; drying; pheromones; deeding deterrent
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medicinal and aromatic plants have an indisputable place in human nutrition, health, and daily life. In the past, medicinal and aromatic plants were used for rituals, wound healing, poisoning treatment, and disease removal. Later, plants begun being used for food seasoning due to their extraordinary flavours and fragrances. Today, the possibility of investigating what particular compounds are related to the usability of medicinal and aromatic plants has arisen.
The food industry currently requires simple and efficient solutions which improve the quality and beneficial aspects of food in a natural and safe manner. Therefore, the effective isolation of volatile and non-volatile fractions of medicinal and aromatic plants and their reliable chemical analysis are highly demanded. Modern, sophisticated analytical techniques like chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry allow us to analyse in depth the valuable constituents of plants and determine the possibility of their usage. Thus, you are kindly invited to submit original research, opinion or review articles regarding the isolation and chemical analysis methods of medicinal and aromatic plant constituents followed by the application of obtained isolates for the design of foods with enhanced quality and health benefits.
Dr. Jacek Łyczko
Dr. Leontina Lipan
Prof. Dr. Antoni Szumny
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- instrumental analysis
- chromatography
- mass spectrometry
- bioactive compounds
- food industry
- novel food products
- superfoods
- isolation
- health benefits
- medicinal and aromatic plants
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