Development of Fluorescent and Infrared Spectroscopy Methods' Applications in Food Analysis
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2024 | Viewed by 6888
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical spectroscopy; food diagnostics; proteins; phenols; plant biostimulators
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food is a complex mixture of nutrients that has a vital role in human health and activities. There is a considerable demand for new analytical methodologies to determine food compositions and nutritive characteristics. Many analytical techniques currently used for food analysis are expensive, time-consuming, and require sample preprocessing. Optical spectroscopy (infrared and fluorescent) methods have become increasingly important for a wide variety of analytical applications in biology and chemistry as a result of significant technical advances in both instrumentation and data analysis tools in the past two decades. Coupled with advanced mathematical/statistical tools, optical spectroscopies allow a rapid, accurate, and reliable qualitative and quantitative analysis of composition and physicochemical properties of various kinds of food without sample preparation. The application of these techniques has expanded into many areas of food research and analytics as a powerful, fast, and non-destructive tool for food quality analysis and control.
For this reason, a Special Issue of Foods is being released focused on the development of applications of optical spectroscopy methods (fluorescent, infrared) in food analysis. It will provide an overview of the current status and future perspectives of the applications of these methods in food analysis.
Prof. Dr. Ksenija Radotić
Dr. Maja Natic
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical spectroscopy
- fluorescence spectroscopy
- infrared spectroscopy
- food composition
- food diagnostics
- proteins
- phenols
- lipids
- polysaccharides
- vitamins