Non-Thermal Technologies for Food Safety and the Preservation of Bioactive Compounds in Fruit and Vegetable-Based Products
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 533
Special Issue Editors
Interests: non-thermal technologies; food safety; predictive microbiology; bioactive compounds
Interests: functional foods; by-products valorization; dehydration; food engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The food industry has great potential for innovation to improve food safety, healthiness, taste, and sustainability. Non-thermal technologies have been developed to minimize the loss of food quality that occurs during traditional thermal processing. These advanced processes keep the temperature below the levels used in conventional thermal processing, ensuring food safety while preserving essential nutrients, bioactive compounds, texture, color, and flavor.
This Special Issue aims to publish research and review papers on advancements in non-thermal food technologies applied to fruit and vegetable-based products. Technologies such as high hydrostatic pressure, cold atmospheric plasma, pulsed electric fields, ultraviolet or pulsed light, high-intensity ultrasound, among others, will be considered. It will comprehensively address various aspects of non-thermal food processing innovations and will encompass microbial inactivation kinetics, the impact on bioactive compounds and enzymes, quality factors, shelf life studies, and sustainability issues such as reducing energy and water requirements.
Dr. Cielo D. Char
Dr. Luis Puente
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- non-thermal technologies
- food safety
- foodborne pathogens
- bioactive compounds
- antioxidants
- high hydrostatic pressure
- cold atmospheric plasma
- pulsed electric fields
- ultraviolet light
- pulsed light
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