Digital Innovation in Food Technology
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 10270
Editors
Interests: postharvest engineering; agricultural and food process engineering; drying technology; modeling and simulation; nondestructive testing and computational engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Worldwide, the food and agricultural sectors are currently experiencing many significant changes. Food value chains are evolving particularly rapidly, along with new consumer behaviour and expectations, data and technology, and food security and environmental sustainability challenges. Digital technologies have the potential to vastly increase the performance of food systems and create new markets and opportunities. Digital technologies are now widely used to improve productivity and decision-making processes across all stages of food production, from genetics improvement to farm management, transport systems, and consumers. Digital food manufacturers can also improve their environmental performance in the packaging and post-harvest processes by using robotics, smart materials, and digital solutions. In this Special Issue, we invite all food-related researchers to contribute their original papers or review articles related to the broad topic of digital innovation in the food industry. This may relate to development and innovation in areas such as automation technology, precision agriculture, sensing equipment, data analysis, or smart agrifood and farming systems.
Dr. Daniel I. Onwude
Dr. Guangnan Chen
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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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-anonymized 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
- digital innovation
- digital technologies
- artificial intelligence and big data
- data modelling
- model integration
- smart agrifood
- foods
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