Applications of Foodomics Strategies in Advancing Food Quality, Safety and Authenticity
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 709
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food chemistry; food analysis; foodomics; proteomics; HPLC-MS
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, food safety, quality, and authenticity have been crucial topics, especially among researchers. The omics approaches have garnered significant attention in food and nutrition research since the term foodomics was coined fifteen years ago. The omics sciences, including proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, transcriptomics, and genomics, are powerful tools for studying food constituents and characteristics at the molecular level. The examination of foods as intricate biological systems is made possible by the integration with biostatistics, chemometrics, and bioinformatics platforms. These methods contribute to the interpretation of the relationship between composition, farming, production methods, treatments, packaging technologies, cooking processes, and food. The detection of foreign harmful compounds, research on the unique molecular markers to confirm the authenticity of supply chains, the possibility of ensuring and, in some cases, predicting the quality of food products, and the study of several food treatments impact at molecular level are just some of the possible foodomics applications.
Dr. Laura Alessandroni
Dr. Simone Angeloni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- foodomics
- proteomics
- metabolomics
- lipidomics
- food genomics
- food analytical methods
- food quality
- food authenticity
- food safety
- LC-MS
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