Dietary Bioactive Compounds: Analytical Challenges and Health Perspectives
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bioactive compounds; phenolic compounds; antioxidants; cereals; pseudocereals; functional foods; novel foods; HPLC; analytical methods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Dietary bioactive compounds—such as polyphenols, carotenoids, alkaloids, peptides, and phytosterols—play a crucial role in modulating human health. Their potential benefits encompass antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, cardioprotective, neuroprotective, and anticancer activities. Understanding their impact on human health requires accurate identification, quantification, and characterization through robust analytical methods.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in the analytical determination of dietary bioactive compounds and/or metabolites in various food matrices, including raw and processed products.
We welcome authors to submit contributions focusing on the development, validation, and application of advanced analytical techniques, as well as studies exploring bioaccessibility and bioavailability.
These should take the form of original research articles, reviews, and methodological papers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Innovative analytical methods for detecting bioactive compounds in foods;
- Bioaccessibility, bioavailability, and metabolism of dietary bioactive compounds;
- Food matrix effects and processing impacts on bioactive stability;
- Analytical approaches for dietary bioactive compound determination;
- Quality control and standardization of functional foods and nutraceuticals.
Dr. Valentina Melini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dietary bioactive compounds
- analytical methods
- bioaccessibility
- bioavailability
- functional foods
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