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Sustainable Diets and Technologies in Food Processing

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 3347

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Leading Guest Editor
Institute of Quality Standards&Testing Technology for Agro-Products, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: food safety; quality assessment using modern metabolomics technologies (mass spectrometry-based strategies); food quality control by novel food processing technologies

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Assistant Guest Editor
College of Food Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural Unversity, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: minimal processing of fruit and vegetable; green utilization of fruit and vegetable by-products
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Assistant Guest Editor
Department of Food Science, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
Interests: foodomics; metabolomics; machine learning; provenance; food processing; flavour
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Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable diets have low environmental impacts, contributing to food and nutrition security and to healthy life for present and future generations. Sustainable diets are protective and respectful for biodiversity and ecosystems, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically fair and affordable, nutritionally adequate, as well as safe and healthy, while optimizing natural and human resources (FAO, 2010, Sustainable Diets and Biodiversity). It is certain that there are challenges in the field of sustainable food processing based on the concept of sustainable diets. The Special Issue will focus on the most recent technologies and strategies based on sustainable food processing.

High-quality submissions of papers presenting research in this field will be accepted, with a special interest in topics including, but not limited to:

  • Environment-friendly food processing technologies.
  • Recovery of food by-products during food processing.
  • Biodegradable and recyclable packaging materials and formulations.
  • Evaluation of nutrient bioactivity in food consumers.
  • Development of comprehensive quality evaluation methodologies for processed food.

Dr. Zhenzhen Xu
Dr. Fengxia Liu
Dr. Biniam Kebede
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • minimal food processing
  • green manufacturing
  • food by-products utilization
  • novel green packaging
  • bioactivity evaluation

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Evaluation Study on Extraction of Anthocyanins from Red Cabbage Using High Pressure CO2 + H2O: A Fuzzy Logic Model and Metabolomic Analysis
by Bingfeng Wang, Shini Yang, Lei Xu, Xue Wang, Lu Mi, Kewen Wang, Xiaojun Liao and Zhenzhen Xu
Sustainability 2022, 14(3), 1369; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14031369 - 25 Jan 2022
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In this work, a fuzzy logic model was developed to elucidate the extraction performance of high-pressure CO2 + H2O compared with traditional H2O extraction and aqueous ethanol extraction. The high-pressure CO2 + H2O group acquired [...] Read more.
In this work, a fuzzy logic model was developed to elucidate the extraction performance of high-pressure CO2 + H2O compared with traditional H2O extraction and aqueous ethanol extraction. The high-pressure CO2 + H2O group acquired the highest comprehensive score considering yield, quality and stability. Both targeted and untargeted metabolomics results proved that the polarity of water was slightly modified; in particular, with the evidence from the untargeted metabolomics data, a higher proportion of water-insoluble compounds (2-methylindole, 3-formylindole, guanine, tyrosine and tryptophan) obtained by high-pressure CO2 + H2O extraction compared with traditional H2O extraction has been reported for the first time. Finally, the “3I” extraction mechanism of high-pressure CO2 + H2O is proposed, which offers an improvement in the solid–liquid mass transfer efficiency of phytochemicals, improving the polarity of solution and the isolation of O2. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Diets and Technologies in Food Processing)
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