Featured Papers on Dietary Carbohydrates and Human Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Carbohydrates".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lipid and sugar metabolism; insulin resistance; experimental nutrition and pharmacology (rodent and cell culture models); MASLD; simple sugars; fructose; dyslipidemia; nuclear receptors; fatty acids; lipoproteins
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The current Feature Paper Special Issue addresses key emerging topics in carbohydrate research across preclinical, translational, and clinical domains. These include the following:
- Assessment of dietary carbohydrate quality, with a focus on distinguishing between whole grains, fibre-rich foods, and foods high in free or added sugars. Researchers are developing novel metrics to better evaluate carbohydrate quality and its impact on chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes, MASLD, and cardiovascular disease.
- Health effects of added and free sugars, particularly in relation to their contribution to cardiometabolic risk, public health policy, and food reformulation strategies.
- Fibre and prebiotics, a field under active investigation for its role in gut health and disease prevention, with growing interest in functional carbohydrates that promote beneficial gut microbiota.
- Carbohydrate-restricted diets and their long-term health effects, especially concerning fat intake and personalised nutrition approaches.
- Clinical relevance of glycaemic index and glycaemic load remains a topic of debate, with mixed evidence regarding their effectiveness in preventing metabolic diseases. There is also increasing interest in plant-based, low-glycaemic carbohydrate sources and the application of machine learning to enhance dietary surveillance and food composition databases.
High-quality original research manuscripts, as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses, are welcomed for submission.
Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Laguna
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- carbohydrate quality
- cardiometabolic risk
- simple sugars
- functional carbohydrates
- glycaemic index
- glycaemic load
- carbohydrate-restricted diet
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