Research on Green Processing and Testing Technologies for Food and Beverages
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Process Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2025 | Viewed by 1410
Special Issue Editors
Interests: novel non-thermal food technologies; ultrasound; high-pressure processing; food bioactives/antioxidants; food enzymes; natural products; spectroscopy; chromatography
Interests: grape must; oxidative degradation, oxidasic haze; oxygen consumption; cationic exchange; enzyme inhibition; spectroscopy; chromatography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the presence of an exponentially growing economy characterized by fierce market competition, the need for feed, energy, and commodities can pose significant challenges regarding the sustainability and operational efficiency of the food and beverage industry. Growing concerns about the environmental impact and the need to optimize production processes have led to the adoption of green processing technologies. Incorporating such methods in the food and beverage sector can greatly decrease resource usage and waste production while ensuring the safety and quality of the food products and beverages. On the other hand, the use of rapid testing technologies offers the possibility of conducting fast and accurate analyses of raw materials, intermediate, and final products. This not only improves efficiency in quality control and food safety but also reduces response times to potential risks or incidents.
This Special Issue is dedicated to discussing advancements in sustainable, non-thermal food processing methods, for instance, ultrasound, high-pressure processing, cold plasma, pulsed electric fields, UV radiation, and microwave. A special focus is also placed on recent developments in chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques (LC-MS, GC-MS, NMR, FTIR, etc.) as well as rapid testing technologies (PCR, RT-PCR, and NGS). We invite the submission of original research and review articles covering any area described above.
Sincerely,
Dr. Konstantina Tsikrika
Guest Editor
Dr. Pol Giménez Gil
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- Ultrasound (US)
- High-Pressure Processing (HPP)
- cold plasma
- Pulsed Electric Field (PEF)
- LC-MS
- GC-MS
- FTIR
- PCR
- RT-PCR
- NGS
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