Metabolomics Application for Food Authentication and Quality Assessment

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, concerns regarding the safety, quality, and authenticity of food and valuable crops have become the major challenge in the food industry. At present, quality evaluation is commonly performed on the basis of human sensory perception; however, this method tends to be subjective, laborious, and challenging. The exhaustive profiling of metabolites is an advantageous feature for the quality assessment and authentication of agricultural and food products. Metabolites can be directly connected with the phenotype, which is sensitively affected by any type of perturbation or stress. Therefore, metabolomics technologies also allow the investigation of the effect of various post-harvest treatments and food production processes on food quality.

This Special Issue will include articles and reviews about different aspects of food quality, food authentication, as well as discrimination of food based on origin, cultivar, and species.  Investigations of the effects of genotype, post-harvest treatments, environmental conditions, and their interactions on metabolite profiles are within the scope of this Special Issue.

Dr. Sastia Prama Putri
Prof. Dr. Eiichiro Fukusaki
Dr. Shuichi Shimma

Guest Editors

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