Current Trends in Food and Food Byproducts Processing
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Process Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 41241
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food processing; milling; grinding; drying; baking; extrusion; bioactive compounds of food
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food production has faced a number of different challenges in recent years. Climate change, the increasing world population, and the war in Ukraine have created a global food crisis. Moreover, the food industry produces enormous amounts of animal and plant byproducts, which generate many environmental problems. These byproducts can be processed into valuable food ingredients, becoming natural sources of nutritionally enhancing compounds with many positive health effects. This necessitates the introduction of new technologies with improved energy efficiency, water savings, and use of food byproducts, all of which are present trends in food processing. Many innovations have recently been proposed to obtain high-quality and healthier food.
This Special Issue aims to collect recent advances in current trends in food processing and especially experimental, theoretical, and computational research on current trends in the development and improvement food processes. Chemical and biochemical reaction processes, mass transfer, grinding, drying, separation and purification processes, nanotechnology in food processes, heat transfer systems, mixing and fluid processes, integrated process design and scale-up, process modeling, simulation, optimization, food control, and food quality are all topics that may be included in this issue. Both original research papers and reviews are invited to expand knowledge on current trends in food and food byproduct processing.
Prof. Dr. Dariusz Dziki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging technologies
- sustainable food processing
- waste reduction
- energy and water saving
- food processing control
- food quality
- use of food byproducts
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