Nutrition and Gut Microbiome in the Prevention of Food Allergy
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 2135
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diet and nutrition; gut micriobiome; metabolite profiling; food allergy; proteomics; allergen discovery; allergenicity assessment
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the gut microbiome has represented an emerging area of investigation with a growing trend of publications in the field of nutrition and gut microbiota, reportedly to be increased by tenfold in the last decade.
In particular, targeted nutrition has gained significant attention to assist consumers in making healthy food choices and reducing the risk factor of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), also including food allergies, as this was found to be associated with changes in the commensal microbiome.
Prebiotics and probiotics have been shown to have a role in modulating the inflammatory immonoresponse, thus altering the adverse reactions displayed in allergic consumers.
Probiotics show promise in preventing and managing food allergies, but the impact of supplementation during pregnancy or infancy on children's allergies and gut microbiota remains unclear.
Postbiotics have also recently emerged as a promising alternative to the use of probiotics, although more research is required in this field to elucidate their role in food allergy prevention.
This Special Issue aims to explore the intriguing connection between nutrition, the gut microbiome, and food allergy through a healthy and/or supplemented diet.
Identifying a targeted nutrition for allergic consumers may lead to alleviating the burden of developing severe reactions for sensitive consumers thanks to the regulation of intestinal flora and metabolite production, becoming more effective in mitigating allergic diseases.
Open questions include the following: Are there predictable factors influencing the interconnection between the gut microbiome and immunological reactions?
Can a targeted nutrition modulate or alter the likelihood of triggering an allergic reaction in sensitive individuals?
How can diet mitigate this?
I invite all the scientific community to contribute to this Special Issue with original research papers and reviews on cutting-edge research focusing on the gut microbiome and food allergies.
Dr. Linda Monaci
Dr. Stefania Arasi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gut microbiome
- nutrition
- prebiotic and probiotics
- diet
- immunomodlatory metabolites
- IgE-mediated food allergy
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