Special Issue "New Insights into Food Fermentation"
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food microbiology; food quality; food safety; food fermentation; lactic acid bacteria; foodborne pathogenic microorganisms; antimicrobials; dairy products; vegetable fermented products
Interests: food technology; food microbiology; food safety; food fermentation; bioprocesses; lactic acid bacteria; microbial starters
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food fermentation has been used since ancient times for food preservation. At present, fermented foods are still and even more appreciated by consumers thanks to the high quality and safety standards achieved, and the improvements in terms of nutritional and organoleptic characteristics. Many foods are still produced following traditional practices but novel approaches to food fermentation have also attracted the interest of researchers and industries. Innovative technological and biological processes, as well as novel approaches of investigation, deeply interact to steer traditional products into modern diet and to open up perspectives for the fermentation of unconventional substrates and food byproducts.
The Special Issue aims to collect original research articles and reviews on advanced approaches concerning food fermentation. In particular, papers are welcome focusing on unconventional matrix fermentation, processes for substrate valorization, functional compounds obtained through fermentation, fermentations increasing quality and safety standards, but also papers presenting innovative approaches shedding light on the microbial community that characterizes fermented foods.
Prof. Dr. Valentina Bernini
Prof. Dr. Juliano De Dea Lindner
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- lactic acid bacteria
- yeasts
- food quality
- food safety
- unconventional food matrices
- byproduct valorization
- technological processes
- strains selection
- microbiological characterization
- microbial community in fermented foods
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Characterization and study of microbiota of spontaneously fermented sausages produced in different European countries
Authors: Federica Barbieri; Giulia Tabanelli; Chiara Montanari; Nicolò Dall'Osso; Vida Šimat; Sonja Smole Možina; José David García López; Fatih Ozogul; Daniela Bassi; Fausto Gardini
Affiliation: Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Title: Solid state fermentation of Arthrosphira platensis to implement new food products: effect of stabilization treatments and bacterial growth on the volatile fraction
Authors: Francesco Martelli; Martina Cirlini; Camilla Lazzi; Erasmo Neviani; Valentina Bernini
Affiliation: Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.