New Reviews and Advances in Nutrimetabolomics

Dear Colleagues,

Metabolomics is an important tool in nutritional intervention and epidemiology studies, offering a comprehensive look at the small molecule composition of both foods and biospecimens. Nutrimetabolomics, which specifically represents the intersection between nutritional studies and metabolomics, offers an unprecedented opportunity to map the complex relationship between food-related compounds and human health. Recent applications of nutrimetabolomics include classifying dietary patterns, associating food-related compounds with health outcomes, integrating microbiome and metabolome clinical nutrition datasets, developing food signatures, and discovering biomarkers of food intake. In addition, resources are becoming available that facilitate nutrimetabolomics studies, including plant- and food- specific compound databases. However, challenges remain, including a lack of informatics strategies and analytical pipelines that apply specifically to nutrimetabolomics. Confident identification of compounds remains a significant challenge in metabolomics and is perhaps even more pronounced in nutrition studies, where human, microbiome, and exogenous compounds such as foods are all present in a single sample. Finally, there is a paucity of publications that describe preparation and analysis methods for the broad range of foods used in clinical nutrition studies. This includes the analysis of multiple types of a single type of food taking qualities such as cultivar/variety/breed, harvest time, processing and storage practices, and cooking methods into account. While significant efforts are underway across the globe to address these issues, to date no widely accepted solutions exist. Therefore, this Special Issue of Metabolites will encompass a range of article types, including original research studies, reviews, perspectives, and description of novel methods. Manuscripts can describe the application of metabolomics to clinical nutrition studies or can relate to the general nutrimetabolomics topics listed above.     

Dr. Nichole Reisdorph
Guest Editor

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• Nutrimetabolomics
• Clinical nutrition
• Plant and food databases
• Dietary biomarkers
• Dietary patterns
• Dietary health outcomes
• Food signatures