Analytical Studies of Bioactive Natural Products in Food
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editor
2. Collaborative Educational Personnel, School of Natural Sciences and Technology, MSc Program Course “Chemical and Biomolecular Analysis”, Hellenic Open University, Patra, Greece
Interests: food chemistry; metabolomics; indicators; bioactive compounds; chromatography; hyphenated techniques; analytical chemistry; natural product chemistry; functional foods; magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
From ancient times, natural products have played a crucial role in nutrition, either as preservatives or as important ingredients. At present, advancements in analytical research tools have strengthened our insights into natural products and their role in food. As part of this Special Issue, we focus on bioactive natural products and warmly welcome contributions addressing their analysis in food, particularly those that focus on bioactive lipid constituents in milk and secoiridoids and aldehydic bioactive natural compounds in oil.
We welcome contributions covering the multitude of methods used to facilitate analytical research on bioactive natural products in food: from non-invasive spectroscopic techniques and methods to -omics profiling in numerous food matrices to spectrometric techniques and methods.
Dr. Constantinos Tsiafoulis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products
- bioactive compound
- food chemistry
- spectroscopic analysis
- analytical chemistry
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