Innovative food analysis presents a modern perspective on the development of effective, sensitive, real-time, and non-destructive techniques to ascertain the safety, quality, and traceability of foods. Although the traditional analytical approach is still the major route, innovative perspectives are gaining momentum in food traceability, fraud, quality, contaminants, sensory and nutritional analytics. The classic techniques of wet chemistry have, in some application scenarios, been replaced with instrumental ones that can provide more accurate results, reduce the detection limits, and enhance sample throughput. Therefore, it is important for food analysts to get more insights into the recent advances in food composition and nutritional analysis.
The innovative approaches have overcome the disadvantages of conventional methods that are tedious, labor-intensive, time-consuming, and destructive. Emerging technologies such as electronic tongues, nuclear magnetic resonance, biosensors, near-infrared hyperspectral imaging, Raman, and Terahertz spectroscopy have found important uses in food quality and safety control. Nevertheless, despite the high sensitivity and rapid response of these latest technologies, a number of limitations still make them challenging to be applied extensively, like robustness, the large amount of data generated during the analysis, the requirement of specific environmental conditions, the complex data analysis and algorithms, and signal overlapping. These limitations drive the need for an improvement and development of commercial use, data analysis and multidisciplinary collaboration. Therefore, this research topic will report recent developments and advances in vibrational spectroscopy, biosensors, nuclear magnetic resonance, and fluorescence spectroscopy to meet the detection needs in the fields of the nutrition and food safety.
Potential topics focus on but are not limited to:
- Emerging detection technologies like: NIR hyperspectral imaging, Terahertz, Raman, biosensors, nuclear magnetic resonance, and fluorescence spectroscopy ....
- Emerging methods for sample preparation: ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE), microwave-assisted extraction (MAE), pressurized liquid extraction (PLE), supercritical fluid extraction (SFE).
- Monitoring of nutrition components during different stages of animal or plant growth, food production and storage.
- Development of chemometric analysis: new algorithm, simplification of models, three-dimensional model, and machine learning.
- Commercialization of equipment of innovative detection technologies.
- Comparison of traditional and novel detection methods.
Furthermore, original research on advanced techniques and methods, and review articles on current state-of-the-art and emerging technologies are all welcome.
Innovative food analysis presents a modern perspective on the development of effective, sensitive, real-time, and non-destructive techniques to ascertain the safety, quality, and traceability of foods. Although the traditional analytical approach is still the major route, innovative perspectives are gaining momentum in food traceability, fraud, quality, contaminants, sensory and nutritional analytics. The classic techniques of wet chemistry have, in some application scenarios, been replaced with instrumental ones that can provide more accurate results, reduce the detection limits, and enhance sample throughput. Therefore, it is important for food analysts to get more insights into the recent advances in food composition and nutritional analysis.
The innovative approaches have overcome the disadvantages of conventional methods that are tedious, labor-intensive, time-consuming, and destructive. Emerging technologies such as electronic tongues, nuclear magnetic resonance, biosensors, near-infrared hyperspectral imaging, Raman, and Terahertz spectroscopy have found important uses in food quality and safety control. Nevertheless, despite the high sensitivity and rapid response of these latest technologies, a number of limitations still make them challenging to be applied extensively, like robustness, the large amount of data generated during the analysis, the requirement of specific environmental conditions, the complex data analysis and algorithms, and signal overlapping. These limitations drive the need for an improvement and development of commercial use, data analysis and multidisciplinary collaboration. Therefore, this research topic will report recent developments and advances in vibrational spectroscopy, biosensors, nuclear magnetic resonance, and fluorescence spectroscopy to meet the detection needs in the fields of the nutrition and food safety.
Potential topics focus on but are not limited to:
- Emerging detection technologies like: NIR hyperspectral imaging, Terahertz, Raman, biosensors, nuclear magnetic resonance, and fluorescence spectroscopy ....
- Emerging methods for sample preparation: ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE), microwave-assisted extraction (MAE), pressurized liquid extraction (PLE), supercritical fluid extraction (SFE).
- Monitoring of nutrition components during different stages of animal or plant growth, food production and storage.
- Development of chemometric analysis: new algorithm, simplification of models, three-dimensional model, and machine learning.
- Commercialization of equipment of innovative detection technologies.
- Comparison of traditional and novel detection methods.
Furthermore, original research on advanced techniques and methods, and review articles on current state-of-the-art and emerging technologies are all welcome.