Traditional and Ethnic Foods in the Context of Food Nutritional Security—Volume II

Dear Colleagues,

Today, about 75% of the total food production around the world is generated by only 12 plants and 5 animal species. As a result of the reliance on a limited number of high-yielding crop varieties and animal species, many local food items (of both plant and animal origin) are gradually becoming neglected. This, in turn, results in dietary transition and often affects the nutritional status of the consumer and, in a wider context, the community. Given the range of diversity in soil types, climatic conditions, culinary traditions and cultures, ethnic communities, and occupations, people of different regions of the world grow different crops, manage different livestock, and have different food habits based on locally available bioresources. Despite the important roles of neglected or lesser-known foods in diversifying agriculture, improving food and nutritional security, maintaining various cultural values, and conserving the gene pool and, thus, biodiversity, too little attention has been paid to them in the past.

In this proposed Special Issue of the MDPI journal Foods entitled “Traditional and Ethnic Foods in the Context of Food Nutritional Security—Volume II”, we would like to invite researchers to submit articles addressing food culture, neglected or “forgotten” foods, nutritional evaluations, food chemical composition, food policy, prospection, marketing, and other topics in the context of underutilized or lesser-known foods.

Dr. Sampat Ghosh
Prof. Dr. Chuleui Jung
Prof. Dr. Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow
Guest Editors

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• underutilized crops
• lesser-known food
• food diversity
• nutrition
• food chemistry
• food security
• traditional food
• ethnic food
• food and culture
• biodiversity