Biologically Active Compounds in Functional Foods
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 21
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Interests: organic fruits; food production; food quality; food safety; food chemistry; food composition; food security; environmental footprint of agronomic systems and food production; sustainable food systems; sustainable diet
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to our Special Issue focusing on a broad range of topics related to biologically active compounds in functional foods.
As unhealthy diets have been recently recognized to pose a greater risk of morbidity and mortality than unsafe sex, alcohol, drugs, and tobacco use combined, food is acknowledged as the strongest lever to optimize human health. Thus, functional foods, including natural, fortified, and enriched foods, as well as foods containing functional ingredients, providing various disease-preventing and physical and mental well-being-supporting properties, are gaining significant attention among researchers, food industry stakeholders, and consumers. This includes the still-broadly unexplored area of various biologically active compounds these foods contain.
We would therefore like to invite submissions addressing recent advances and state-of-the-art knowledge on functional foods, and the variety of their bioactive compounds, including analytical methodologies, stability, food matrix interactions, bioavailability, mechanisms of action at molecular and physiological levels, and the association(s) of their intake with the reduction in the risk of non-communicable diseases. Additionally, topics covering personalized nutrition approaches by exploring the individual variability in response to these foods would be of great interest.
We seek interdisciplinary topics, bridging food chemistry, nutrition, and health sciences. We welcome different types of manuscripts, including original research articles, reviews, and meta-analyses.
Dr. Dominika Średnicka-Tober
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional foods
- bioactive compounds
- vitamins
- antioxidants
- phenolics
- functional ingredients
- functional properties
- fortified foods
- enriched foods
- food chemistry
- bioavailability
- food matrix
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