Food Science and Nutrition

Scope

Food Science & Nutrition is a peer-reviewed journal for rapid dissemination of research in all areas of food science and nutrition. The Journal will consider submissions of quality papers describing the results of fundamental and applied research related to all aspects of food and nutrition, as well as interdisciplinary research that spans these two fields. Topics include, but are not limited to the following areas: Food Science • Chemistry of food and its biochemical interactions • Food microbiology, safety, and risk assessment • Safety and security analysis of global food supplies • Food preservation, storage, and hurdle technology • Food toxicology • Engineering of food processing technologies • Handling and packaging of foods • Quality assurance of food products • Biotechnology as it relates to food production and processing • Food oral processing, rheology, and other texture related studies • Sensory and consumer science • Enology and fermentation technology • Health claims • Agriculture research on plant production, utilization, biomass, and environment Health and Nutrition • Metabolic, molecular, and genetic mechanisms of nutrients • Bioavailability and disease prevention • Nutritional methodologies and modeling • Community and international nutrition • Nutritional epidemiology and clinical nutrition • Nutrients in growth, development, and reproduction • Nutrition in medical management • Nutrition-related behaviors • Nutritional toxicity • Nutritional genomics • Plant and animal nutrition • Aging and age-related degeneration • Dietetics Interdisciplinary Research[...]