Aims & Scope
Letters in Functional Foods publishes original research articles, short
communications, letters,
and mini-reviews. In addition, thematic issues are also published. The latest research on healthy foods and
biologically active food ingredients are of particular interest, along with nutritional
and technological aspects related to the development of functional foods and
beverages. Studies on the use of supplements, food ingredients, and naturally
functional food and their relationship with consumer health are also welcome.
Emphasis is also placed on publishing articles
focusing on investigations
into the effects of
novel foods as well as their compounds on human health related to
non-transmissible chronic diseases such as obesity, metabolic syndrome,
diabetes, or
cardiovascular disease. The discovery of new ways of using bioactive compounds in foods and synergies between compounds are also
of interest to
Letters in Functional Foods. Likewise, the use of probiotics and prebiotics in any form in food, whether
already present or added, and their evaluation of the effects on any human
parameter, including
microbiomes, are also
well received. Finally, any food-related influences on
nutrigenetics,
nutrigenomics,
epigenetics,
transcriptomics, metabolomics,
or metagenomics are also welcome.
Letters in Functional Foods is an international,
peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of functional foods and beverages, published continuously (print &
online) by Bentham Science Publishers.