Anthocyanins: The Infinite Properties of These Incredible Compounds

Dear Colleagues,

Anthocyanins are acknowledged for their great heterogeneity of colors, from orange to blue hues in the visible spectrum. Because of their wide distribution in nature and structural diversity, they have hit headlines. They display a large range of properties and perform diverse roles in plants. In recent decades, scholars have been turning their attention more and more insistently to these amazing molecules. Knowledge about their biosynthesis, bioactivities, and biological relevance, as well as their possible applications are continuously broadening. Moreover, due to their relative abundance in the diet and their chemical and biological versatility, they possess notable health-promoting features. Nonetheless, only now we are truly beginning to understand how their absorption might relate to their bioactivity. Similarly, novel anthocyanin-enriching techniques are opening new opportunities for several applications in various industry sectors as food additives, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals, for manufacturing food and non-food products. This Special Issue of the journal Molecules “Anthocyanins: the infinite properties of these incredible compounds” aims to collect original research articles and review articles that can improve our knowledge in the aforementioned fields of anthocyanins research.

GENP 2022 – International Conference on Green Extraction of Natural Products 27th – 28th October 2022 Croatia (http://genp2022.pbf.hr/)
MS Food Day 2022 5th-7th October 2022 Italy (https://www.spettrometriadimassa.it/Congressi/7MS-FoodDay/program_7MSFoodDay.html)

Dr. Pasquale Crupi
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Molecules is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.