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Featured Review Papers in Food Chemistry—2nd Edition

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 1461

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Laboratory of Food Microbial Technology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: food chemistry; food analysis; food inspection; microbiology; fermentation; synthetic biology; metabolism

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality review papers in the field of food chemistry research, for which the Editorial Board Members of the journal Molecules, Section “Food Chemistry”, and other researchers working in the field are invited to contribute.

Following the great success of the 1st Edition, we are now launching the 2nd Edition of this Special Issue. You can find the first edition here:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules/special_issues/6FL8Z81451

We are welcoming proposals for review articles in this dynamically developing discipline in relation to fundamental and applied research in all food-related domains. In particular, reviews on the most recent analytical approaches to extract, detect, and quantify food bioactive and toxic components; bioaccessibility; and bioavailability studies on the development of food supplements and functional foods will be taken into consideration. Moreover, other topics that will be considered are food safety, food physicochemical properties, food packaging, and the recycling of agro-food waste for non-nutritional/food use.

We invite and encourage all research groups covering various areas of food chemistry to make contributions to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Fei Tao
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • food analysis
  • food additives
  • food supplements
  • functional foods
  • physicochemical properties
  • agro-food wastes recycling
  • bioaccessibility and bioavailability
  • food stability
  • food security

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The Presence of Micro- and Nanoplastics in Food and the Estimation of the Amount Consumed Depending on Dietary Patterns
by Aleksandra Duda and Katarzyna Petka
Molecules 2025, 30(18), 3666; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30183666 - 9 Sep 2025
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Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) are becoming an increasingly common environmental pollutant. They have been detected in fruit, vegetables, drinking water, seafood, meat, dairy products, and cereals, with particularly high levels often being found in processed foods. The presence of MNPs varies significantly depending [...] Read more.
Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) are becoming an increasingly common environmental pollutant. They have been detected in fruit, vegetables, drinking water, seafood, meat, dairy products, and cereals, with particularly high levels often being found in processed foods. The presence of MNPs varies significantly depending on the type of food, geographical region, method of food preparation, and packaging materials used. Of the three main routes of human exposure to MNPs, ingestion is the most important. This article provides a comprehensive review of food contamination by MNPs, including an assessment of the impact of various factors on the MNP abundance. For the first time, it also evaluates the differences in MNP intake among individuals following three typical European dietary patterns: the Mediterranean, Western, and lacto-ovo-vegetarian. The lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet was found to result in the highest MNP intake (69.1 × 106 particles/day), almost doubling that of the other tested patterns. This is mainly due to the very high proportion of fruit, vegetables, legumes, and nuts in daily meals. Taking into account both health concerns and MNP quantity consumed with meals (37.5 × 106 particles/day), the Mediterranean diet is the healthiest. The review also highlights the need to raise awareness of food-related sources of MNPs. Full article
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