Foodomics: Advanced Molecular Profiling for Future Nutrition and Sustainable Food Systems
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Metabolomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2026 | Viewed by 149
Special Issue Editors
Interests: foodomics; advanced mass spectrometry; food flavour and quality; functional food; precision nutrition; bioavailability; metabolomics; functional ingredient discovery; natural product valorisation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food systems are undergoing rapid transformation, driven by increasing demands for alternative nutrient sources, healthier diets, sustainable production, transparent processing, and evidence-based nutrition. Recently released dietary guidelines emphasize improved diet quality through prioritization of minimally processed foods, higher-quality protein sources, healthier fat profiles, and reduced intake of added sugars and refined carbohydrates. Translating these population-level recommendations into practice requires molecularly resolved evidence linking food composition, processing, and biological responses to measurable health outcomes.
In this context, Foodomics, integrating advanced mass spectrometry with complementary high-resolution spectroscopic and computational approaches, have emerged as a cornerstone of modern food science and nutrition research. These methodologies enable comprehensive molecular characterization of foods and food systems, linking composition, processing, genetics, and environmental exposures to functional and physiological outcomes that collectively shape food sustainability and human health.
This Special Issue aims to highlight innovative, mechanistic, and application-driven experimental strategies, together with their translational impact, that advance Foodomics toward actionable insights for food design, regulation, and nutritional outcomes across the food chain. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Advanced characterization of next-generation food and ingredient systems;
- Discovery of bioactive metabolites, peptides, and lipids;
- Digestion, bioaccessibility, and bioavailability studies;
- Food exposomics and contaminant profiling;
- Authenticity, farm-to-fork traceability, and food fraud detection;
- Plant, microbial, and alternative nutrient sources aligned with contemporary dietary policy;
- Computational integration of Foodomics datasets across in vitro, in vivo, and human nutrition studies;
- Effects of genetic, environmental, and processing-related perturbations on food metabolite and peptide profiles and associated metabolic networks.
We invite original research articles, reviews, and short communications that propel Foodomics toward mechanistic understanding and real-world impact across the food system. This Special Issue welcomes interdisciplinary contributions leveraging emerging analytical workflows, multi-omics integration, and machine learning, and industry-relevant translational applications are particularly encouraged.
Dr. Sung-Tong Chin
Dr. Suwimol Chockchaisawasdee
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food system sustainability
- molecular fingerprinting of food
- untargeted high-resolution metabolomics
- food peptidomics
- nutriomics bioinformatics
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