Dear Colleagues,

We are all familiar with the popular slogan “you are what you eat”, and at present everyone is becoming more aware of the impact of the diet on their health. Moreover, the media promote a great deal of information on so-called healthy eating, diets, and lifestyle fashions. Distinguishing what is reliable or not is often difficult for the consumer. Additionally, the contemporary world struggles with the aging of the population, which requires the design of the diet for “healthy aging”. In this context, nutraceuticals, as health-supportive substances, do not lose their significance. They are still in the focus of the scientific interests and are continuously developing worldwide.

I am honored to announce this Special Issue entitled "Current State of the Art—Nutraceutical Components of Foods”. This Issue initiates a new MDPI journal called Nutraceuticals, and the articles published within it will be joined together under the same title with an Applied Sciences Special Issue. Our Special Issue is addressed to all scientists who study, among other things, i) the therapeutic potential of food-derived food compounds; ii) their analysis using in vitro, in vivo, and in silico methodologies; iii) the impact of dietary patterns on the risk of diet-related diseases; iv) the interactions between nutraceutical foods and other food components in the context of human health; v) the novel technologies aiming to provide a nutraceutical to the organism in an active form; and vi) the pros and cons of nutraceutical food. All types of articles (i.e., reviews, original papers, and short communications) are kindly welcome.

Benefits of publishing in the joint Special Issue of Nutraceuticals and Applied Sciences:

• Open access (unlimited access);
• Indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) [search for "Applied Sciences-Basel",2.474, 5-Year IF: 2.458], Scopus [CiteScore: 2.50], Inspec (IET) and other databases;
• Rapid turn-around: approximately 2 weeks from submission to the first decision.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Prof. Dr. Anna Iwaniak
Guest Editor

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