Advances in Functional Foods, 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 296
Special Issue Editor
Interests: delivery of bioactive compounds; carotenoids; antimicrobial peptides; hydrocolloids; nano/microencapsulation
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Dear Colleagues,
Functional foods improve health and wellbeing and reduce the risk of disease. However, functional foods are still consumed as part of a normal diet. They can be divided into unmodified or modified foods, and are subjected to different treatments. Research is rapidly growing, and new scientific knowledge has been gained on the functionality of food components, their effects on human health, and the technology used in the preparation of functional foods. New achievements in the fields of genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics have deepened the understanding of physiological responses at the individual and molecular levels and have increased the importance of functional foods.
I would like to invite you to submit original research papers or review articles to this Special Issue that would address any research topic related to functional foods.
Dr. Jolanta Sereikaitė
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional food ingredients
- delivery of bioactives
- bioavailability of bioactives
- technological aspects
- health benefits
- personalized nutrition
- health claims
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- Advances in Functional Foods in Molecules (48 articles)
