Special Issue "Functional and Bioactive Properties of Food"

Diego Moreno and Nebojsa Ilic, guest editors of the special issue "Functional and Bioactive Properties of Food", by MDPI AG,?invite other researchers to participate in it, explaining that ... "Over the last 20 years, many research groups and teams, as well as different projects and resulting publications, have considered as relevant the change in the vision of producing foods, not only for nutrition, but also for health. Diet and nutrition are key tools in promoting health and reducing the comorbidities of chronic diseases. There are thousands of biomolecules in fruits, vegetables, wild and medicinal plants, other land and marine organisms, which can exert functional and health-promoting effects through bioactivity beyond nutrition. There are many opportunities and challenges in establishing connections between the bioactivity in foods and ingredients with benefits on health. The evidence still is not clearly presented, there are difficulties in demonstrating causality, and the multifactorial conditions of chronic and non-communicable diseases (e.g., obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, etc.), which are not related to a single effect or a single compound. Additionally, the translation from lab to clinical studies still does not give enough support for claims, and more evidence is needed to give recommendations and dietary advice.From the enormous amount of knowledge generated from different natural bioactive ingredients present in foods, we are aiming to bring together experts working in different fields of food, nutrition, and health, in order to work on this Special Issue, with a comprehensive collection of papers to gain insight into the most promising bioactive compounds in different foods, to improve the preservation of bioactivity during the food processing chain, and to provide scientific evidence of the efficacy of key bioactives in foods in preventing disease and improving health and well being." The link below informs about manuscript submission. Dr. Diego A. Moreno works at?CEBAS-CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Food Science and Technology Department, Research Group on Quality, Safety and Bioactivity of Plant Foods, Campus Universitario de Espinardo ? Edificio 25, Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain. Dr. Nebojsa Ilic works for?Institute for Food Technology - Novi Sad (FINS), Bulevar cara Lazara 1 21000 - Novi Sad, Serbia.