Dear Colleagues, 

Quite often along the food chain—from production to distribution, from raw materials to final products—operators have to face with mixtures. Mixtures are systems composed of two or more ingredients whose sum have to be 100%. This is true when dealing with the formulation of a specific food product; when dealing with the composition of a liquid medium for food storage; when dealing with atmosphere composition in modified atmosphere packaging; and in many other situations. In all of these cases, mixtures could be optimized in order to reach the optimal results. To do so, mixture could be studied in an objective, rational and useful way by means of the experimental design for mixture, a subclass of the more general Design of Experiments approach. Unfortunately, mixture designs are not well known and often badly used.

Thus, the scope of this Special Issue is to collect original articles, tutorials and review articles which could extend the knowledge and the application of mixture design along the food sector.

Prof. Dr. Riccardo Leardi
Dr. Giacomo Squeo
Guest Editors

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• Experimental design
• Mixture design
• Food formulation
• Modified Atmosphere Packaging
• Ingredients
• Shelf-life
• Modeling
• Optimization
• Prediction