Highly Nutritional Foods including Vegetal Ingredients

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit short communications, research, or review articles to the Special Issue entitled “Highly Nutritional Foods including Vegetal Ingredients”.

All cultures have traditional dishes of vegetal origin, including seeds, fruits, leaves, and even stems, which were basis of the human nutrition with the eventual inclusion of animal foods in old times. Nowadays, looking for a healthier diet and the preservation of the environment, we are rescuing quite interesting vegetal ingredients for inclusion in newly developed foods or modifying old plant foods because of the high nutritional quality of their compounds. Some of the ingredients are ancestral ones, such as quinoa, chia, and amaranth, but others are newly discovered or included in newly developed foods. Technological procedures with which to prepare new foods with alternative ingredients are commonly a challenge. Additionally, the current ways with which to evaluate nutritional quality using cell lines, semi-in vitro models, or isotopic techniques in human beings are interesting.  

This Special Issue invites original research articles and reviews focusing on the application of a wide variety of techniques to evaluate the quality of newly developed foods including vegetal ingredients with properties to improve or maintain healthy human nutrition. Special focus will be given to original food products with high nutritional quality, as evaluated by convincing procedures.

Dr. Ana María Calderón De la Barca
Guest Editor

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• plant food
• vegetal ingredient
• fruits
• bioactive compounds
• crop food products
• food science and technology
• nutrition and dietetics

Title: Underutilized indigenous and nutritional wild fruits in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, South Africa
Authors: Luambo Jeffrey Ramarumo
Affiliation: Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Rhodes University, South Africa
Abstract: Underutilized indigenous and nutritional wild fruits in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, South Africa