Food Additives as a Cause of Hypersensitivity and Food Allergy—Mechanisms, Clinic and Diagnosis
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (9 April 2024) | Viewed by 135
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food additive; immunology; alergology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: allergenic proteins; food allergy; celiac disease; risk assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, food is full of various additives. We use dyes to make it look fresh and healthy. We use conditioners to make it soft and fluffy. We use preservatives to keep it fresh for a long time. We use aromas to make it smell delicious. We use polishes to make it look attractive. All these additives form a group of non-nutritive food substances. These substances, used in permitted doses, are not harmful, but they also do not provide nourishment. Sometimes, however, the harmlessness of food additives is questionable. There are various adverse reactions to this group of substances, including hypersensitivity reactions. Food additives can cause allergic reactions ranging from mild to severe anaphylactic shocks. However, we still know little about the role these additives play in these reactions and in what pathogenetic mechanisms they act. We also do not have efficient, validated tools for diagnosing these reactions. In this Special Issue, we want to focus on the relationship between food additives and hypersensitivity reactions. We invite everyone interested in this topic to co-create this Special Issue.
Dr. Kinga Lis
Prof. Dr. Richard E. Goodman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food additives
- allergy
- intolerance
- hypersensitivity
- diagnostics
