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Special Issue Editor
Interests: Quality control and assessment of food, cereal-based food and beverages, beer and its raw materials, improvement of sensory properties of food and beer, study of antioxidant compounds and antioxidant activity in food and beer, extraction of antioxidant compounds with mild technologies and valorization of brewing by-products. Food Chemistry; Food Analysis; Biotechnology; Food Processing; Food Quality; Food Science and Technology; Food & Nutrition; Antioxidant Activity; Food Safety
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food quality and safety is the major concern for modern consumer, who is increasingly focused on health and wellness. Bioactive compounds play a key role on food quality and safety. Within this context, addressing the influence that different culture conditions and post-harvest practices on bioactive compounds content of food is important. Cereals, vegetables, fruits, oilseeds, herbs, and spices, are rich sources of bioactive phytochemicals (i.e., phenolics, carotenoids, tocols, sterols.. etc.) and other interesting ingredients (i.e., protein, carbohydrate, and lipid) with health-promoting properties.
Besides cultivar type, several factors including cultural practices, soil characteristics, region of cultivation, climate conditions, environmental conditions, physiological factors, maturity stage, harvesting time and post-harvest practices can affect bioactive compounds accumulation in foods.
In this regard, Separations is pleased to contribute in highlighting the importance of culture conditions and post-harvest practices as well as to highlight the potential role of bioactive compounds in functional food and nutraceuticals.
Dr. Elisabetta Bravi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Bioactive compounds
- culture conditions
- post harvest practice
- healty food
- functional food
- nutraceuticals
