Application of Metabolomics for Food and Beverages Analysis, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food analysis; food safety; chemical contaminants; mass spectrometry; food authenticity; bioactive molecules
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Dear Colleagues,
Metabolomics, the thorough study of “as-many-small-metabolites-as-possible”, has become an important tool in food and beverage research. This rapidly developing discipline has made possible the exhaustive and high-resolution characterization of hundreds or thousands of metabolites from complex samples in a single measurement. Two complementary approaches are used in metabolomic studies: metabolic profiling and metabolic fingerprinting. Metabolic profiling utilizes sensitive, robust, efficient, and cost-effective analytical methods developed to ensure the safety, quality, and traceability of foods and beverages according to legislation and consumers demands. Specifically, metabolic profiling focuses on the analysis of specific metabolites or classes of compounds, and in most cases, it is a hypothesis-driven approach, which depends on prior knowledge of food constitution. On the other hand, in metabolic fingerprinting, the intention is not to identify each observed metabolite but rather to compare patterns or ‘‘fingerprints’’ of all metabolites accessible to the analysis. Considering that sensory and rheological characteristics, such as flavor, taste, odor, texture, appearance, as well as the nutritional value and health benefits of foods, are essentially determined by its chemical content, it is more than clear that the application of metabolomics offers enormous opportunities to obtain precious information directly correlated to food quality and safety, but also related to food processing, storage, and authenticity assessment.
Corresponding to the fast development of analytical techniques in recent years, this Special Issue sets out to showcase comprehensive papers that together extensively cover the topics of applications of metabolomics approaches for food and beverage analysis. Scientists are warmly invited to submit their original contributions (reviews and original research papers) to this Special Issue, which will certainly be of interest to a wide range of readers. In the cases of review articles, an additional brief (1–2 pages) description of the topic including a draft index is required. This preliminary step is essential to avoid topic overlap.
Dr. Marilena Dasenaki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- targeted and untargeted metabolomics
- food and beverage quality and safety
- food authenticity
- chemical characterization of foods and beverages
- metabolic profiling
- metabolic fingerprinting
- analytical methodologies
- advanced chemometric techniques
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