Research Publications (Food Safety)

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Understanding the relationship between the structure of solid foods and their oral processing is paramount for enhancing features such as texture and taste and for improving health‐related factors such as management of body weight or dysphagia.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Various dietary sulfated polysaccharides (SPs) have been isolated from seafoods, including edible seaweeds and marine animals, and their health effects such as antiobesity and anti‐inflammatory activities have attracted remarkable interest. Sulfate groups have been shown to play important roles in the bioactivities of these polysaccharides.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Raman spectroscopy and surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) have been extensively explored in the design of accurate, transparent, and conclusive food safety and quality control assays. Its hyphenation with chemometric algorithms is instrumental in securing safe food campaigns.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Decontamination of meat is commonly practiced to get rid of or decrease the microbial presence on the meat surface. Dielectric barrier discharge cold atmospheric plasma (DBD‐CAP) as innovative technology is a food microbial inactivation technique considered in high regard by food scientists and engineers in present times.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. The global trade of tropical fruits is expected to increase significantly in the coming years. In 2018, the production was approximately 100 million tones, an increase of 3.3% compared to the previous year. Nevertheless, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization, every year one‐third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is lost or wasted.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Seed coat mucilages are mainly polysaccharides covering the outer layer of the seeds to facilitate seed hydration and germination, thereby improving seedling emergence and reducing seedling mortality. Four types of polysaccharides are found in mucilages including xylan, pectin, glucomannan, and cellulose.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Selenium (Se) is a trace mineral micronutrient essential for human health. The diet is the main source of Se intake. Se‐deficiency is associated with many diseases, and up to 1 billion people suffer from Se‐deficiency worldwide. Cereals are considered a good choice for Se intake due to their daily consumption as staple foods. Much attention has been paid to the contents of Se in cereals and other foods.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Asian carp, which are widely distributed in Asia and Europe, are nutritious and popular with consumers. In China, Asian carp is a tasty dish and has been consumed for thousands of years. However, they are considered aggressive invasive species that threaten rivers, lakes, and indigenous species in the United States.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. The chief intent of this review is to explain the different extraction techniques and efficiencies for the recovery of protein from food waste (FW) sources. Although FW is not a new concept, increasing concerns about chronic hunger, nutritional deficiency, food security, and sustainability have intensified attention on alternative and sustainable sources of protein for food and feed.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Consumers’ preference to have a healthy eating pattern has led to an increasing demand for more nutrient‐dense and healthier plant‐based foods. Pulse proteins are exceptional quality ingredients with potential nutritional benefits, and might act as health‐promoting agents for addressing the new‐generation foods.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Pulse crops have received growing attention from the agri‐food sector because they can provide advantageous health benefits and offer a promising source of starch and protein. Pea, lentil, and faba bean are the three leading pulse crops utilized for extracting protein concentrate/isolate in food industry, which simultaneously generates a rising volume of pulse starch as a co‐product.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Shiitake mushrooms are one of the most popular and highly consumed mushrooms worldwide both in fresh and dry forms. However, it rapidly starts losing its quality immediately after harvest which necessitates processing and/or proper storage before being distributed.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Pore‐forming toxins (PFTs) are water‐soluble molecules that have been identified as the most crucial virulence factors during bacterial pathogenesis. PFTs disrupt the host cell membrane to internalize or to deliver other bacterial or virulence factors for establishing infections.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Phenolic compounds are commonly incorporated into muscle foods to inhibit lipid oxidation and modify product flavor. Those that are present in or extracted from plant sources (seeds, leaves, and stems) known as “phytophenols” are of particular importance in the current meat industry due to natural origins, diversity, and safety record.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Seeds play important roles in human nutrition and health since ancient time. The term “specialty” has recently been applied to seeds to describe high‐value and/or uncommon food products. Since then, numerous studies have been conducted to identify various classes of bioactive compounds, including polyphenols in specialty seeds.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Furan is generally produced during thermal processing of various foods including baked, fried, and roasted food items such as cereal products, coffee, canned, and jarred prepared foods as well as in baby foods. Furan is a toxic and carcinogenic compound to humans and may be a vital hazard to infants and babies.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Contamination of African staple foods is a major issue for human and animal health, nutrition, and trade. This review aimed to collect and synthesize the available evidence on geographical spread, scale of contamination, disease burden, economic impact, and mitigation measures for aflatoxins in Africa by way of a systematic literature review.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Grains are important sources of carbohydrates in global dietary patterns. The majority of these carbohydrates, especially in refined‐grain products, are digestible. Most carbohydrate digestion takes place in the small intestine where monosaccharides (predominantly glucose) are absorbed, delivering energy to the body. However, a considerable part of the carbohydrates, especially in whole grains, is indigestible dietary fibers.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been used in food contact paper and paperboard for decades due to their unique ability to provide both moisture and oil/grease resistance. Once thought to be innocuous, it is now clear that long chain PFAS bioaccumulate and are linked to reproductive and developmental abnormalities, suppressed immune response, and tumor formation.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, Volume 20, Issue 2, Page 1280-1306, March 2021. Liposomes play a significant role in encapsulation of various bioactive compounds (BACs), including functional food ingredients to improve the stability of core. This technology can be used for promoting an effective application in functional food and nutraceuticals.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. The food industry faces numerous challenges to assure provision of tasty and convenient food that possesses extended shelf life and shows long‐term high‐quality preservation. Research and development of antimicrobial materials for food applications have provided active antibacterial packaging technologies that are able to meet these challenges.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Fruit‐based diets have been adopted by the public worldwide because of their nutritional value. Many advances have also been made in the elucidation of host–pathogen interaction in the postharvest phase of fruits, in the hope of improving the management of diseases caused by pathogenic molds.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. High pressure processing (HPP) as a nonthermal processing (NTP) technology can ensure microbial safety to some extent without compromising food quality.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Pectic substances, one of the cell wall polysaccharides, exist widespread in vegetables and fruits. A surge of recent research has revealed that pectic substances can inhibit gut inflammation and relieve inflammatory bowel disease symptoms. However, physiological functions of pectins are strongly structure dependent.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. The unequivocal economical and social values of bread as a staple food commodity lead to constant interests in optimizing its postproduction quality and extending its shelf life, which is related to the maintenance and enhancement of flavors and textural properties, and finally, to the delay of microbial spoilage.