Foods: Bioactives, Processing, Quality and Nutrition

Welcome from the Chairs

Welcome to Foods: Bioactives, Processing, Quality and Nutrition

Call for Papers

for The First MDPI–Lincoln University International Conference on Foods

Research concerned with bioactives, processing, quality and nutritive value of foods is progressing fast. Simultaneously, activities within industry, government and academia are becoming more globalized. Successful research requires interaction with multiple partners around the world. We are facing an obvious need for new types of communication within our scientific community. Sciforum.net electronic conferences provide a platform for fast exchange of the latest research findings, as well as a possibility for global meetings with no limitations related to traveling.

The first MDPI–Lincoln University International Conference on Foods will cover timely research topics concerned with modern food industry. The conference will include ten topical sessions focusing on:

1. Isolation and Characterization of Plant based Functional Food Ingredients (Section A).

2. Isolation and Characterization of Animal based Functional Food Ingredients (Section B).

3. Food Quality for the Consumer (Section C).

4. Chemical and Nutritional Content of Foods (Section D).

5. Food and Human Physiology (Section E).

6. Non-Thermal Food Processing and effects on Food Quality and Nutrition(Section F).

7. Thermal Food Processing and effects on Food Quality and Nutrition (Section G).

8. Food Safety and Security (Section H).

9. Mathematical Approaches to Food Innovation (Section I).

10. Allergens and Intolerances (Section J)

This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues related to recent insights and advances in these topics.

The conference will be completely free of charge―both to attend and for authors to publish―and is sponsored by MDPI and the new scientific journal Foods (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods). Selected papers will be published in the journal Foods.

The first MDPI–Lincoln University International Conference on Foods will be held at www.sciforum.net, a new platform developed by MDPI to organize electronic conferences for scholars.

Please submit your abstract with max 2500 character (in English) before 23rd December 2012. Abstracts should be submitted online using the "Start New Submission" function. All submissions will be reviewed by our scientific committee. For accepted abstracts, a full draft paper should be submitted by 8 March 2013.

Paper Submission Guidelines

For information about the procedure for submission, peer-review, revision and acceptance of conference proceedings papers, please refer to the section "Instruction for authors"

Conference Chairs

Leo Jiang

MDPI AG

Foods Editorial Office

[Not defined]

Charles Brennan

Lincoln University

Sessions

A. Isolation and Characterization of Plant based Functional Food Ingredients
B. Isolation and Characterization of Animal based Functional Food Ingredients
C. Food Quality for the Consumer
D. Chemical and Nutritional Content of Foods
E. Food and Human Physiology
F. Non-Thermal Food Processing and effects on Food Quality and Nutrition
G. Thermal Food Processing and effects on Food Quality and Nutrition
H. Food Safety and Security
I. Mathematical Approaches to Food Innovation
J. Allergens and Intolerances

Instructions for Authors

Submission
1. Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 200-300 words covering the areas of Food Science for the proceedings issue) online on this website before 23rd December 2012.

2. The conference committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the first edition of MDPI–Lincoln University International Conference on Foods. All authors will be notified by 14th January 2013 about the acceptance of their abstract.

3. Authors of accepted abstracts are asked to submit his full communication paper, optionally along with a PowerPoint presentation of their paper, by 8th March 2013.

4. The conference committee will then organize a round of peer-review of the submitted communication papers, and authors are eventually asked to revise their paper based on peer-reviewer's comments.

5. Finally, accepted communication papers will appear on the website immediately after their acceptance.

6. Presented communications papers can be discussed, commented and rated during the time of the conference, 10-12th April 2013.

Proceedings Paper
Communications for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:

First page:
TitleFull author names
Affiliations and authors' e-mail addresses
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Methods / ExamsResults and Discussion
Conclusions
(Acknowledgements)
References

Communications should be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor and converted to the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The Communication paper should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references). There is no page limit on the length, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.

Presentation Slides
Authors are encouraged to prepare a couple of slides in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the Communication. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly in the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.

Submission
Submission should be done online by registering with https://www.sciforum.net/, and using the "New Submission" function once logged into system.

Copyright
MDPI AG, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a Communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI AG the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).

List of accepted submissions (23)

Id	Title	Authors	Poster PDF
sciforum-000266	Use of Donkey Milk in Children with Cow\'s Milk Protein Allergy Paolo Polidori , Silvia Vincenzetti Submitted: 23 Oct 2012 Abstract: Show Abstract	Paolo Polidori , Silvia Vincenzetti	N/A	Show Abstract
Human breast milk is the best nutritional support that insure the right development and influence immune status of the newborn infant. However, when it is not possible to breast feeding may be necessary to use commercial infant formulas that mimic, where possible, the levels and types of nutrients present in human milk. Despite this, some formula-fed infant develops allergy and/or atopic disease compared to breast-fed infants. Cow\'s milk allergy can be divided into immunoglobulin Ig-E mediated food allergy and non–IgE-mediated food allergy. Most infants with cow\'s milk protein allergy (CMPA) develop symptoms before 1 month of age, often within 1 week after introduction of cow\'s milk-based formula. Donkey milk may be considered a good substitute for cow\'s milk in feeding children with CMPA since its composition is very similar to human milk. Donkey milk total protein content is low (13-28 mg/mL), very close to human milk. In particular, donkey milk is rich in whey proteins; they represent 35-50% of the nitrogen fraction, while in cow\'s milk only 20%. A deep analysis of the donkey milk protein profile has been performed in this study; the interest was focused on the milk proteins considered safe for the prevention and treatment of various disorders in human. The content of lactoferrin, lactoperoxidase and lysozyme, peptides with antimicrobial activity, able to stimulate the development of the neonatal intestine, was determined. Donkey milk is characterized by a low casein content, with values very close to human milk; the total whey protein content in donkey milk is 7.50 mg/mL, very close to human milk (8.0 mg/mL). Among whey proteins, α-lactalbumin concentration in donkey milk is 1.8 mg/mL. The results of this study confirmed the possibility of using donkey milk in feeding children with CMPA .
sciforum-000268	Characterization of the lipotropic potential of plant-based foods Anthony Fardet , Jean-François Martin , Jean-Michel Chardigny Submitted: 05 Nov 2012 Abstract: Show Abstract	Anthony Fardet , Jean-François Martin , Jean-Michel Chardigny	N/A	Show Abstract
Lipotropes are food components that limit excessive hepatic triglyceride contents or steatosis. Hepatic steatosis is often associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes, and may lead to more serious pathologies such as steatohepatitis, hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis, or cancer. Yet, whereas hepatic steatosis concerns several millions people worldwide, the lipotropic potential of foods has never been studied; and lipotrope-rich foods remain quite unknown. The objective of this work has been to characterize and quantify the lipotropic potential of plant-based foods from lipotrope contents found in literature and nutritional tables. Thus, 132 plant-based foods and 8 lipotropes (betaine, choline, myo-inositol, methionine, niacin, pantothenic acid, folates and magnesium) could have been selected. Main results showed that vegetables are the best source of lipotropes on a 100 kcal-basis and that plant-based foods are a more diversified source - but complementary - of lipotropes compared to animal-based products. We then expressed the lipotropic potential into a new index, the Lipotropic Capacity (LC) that integrates the sum of the 8 lipotropic densities relative to a reference food. Technological processes reduce plant-based foods lipotropic potential by around 20%: while refining is the most drastic treatment, fermentations have little effect, and may even tend to increase lipotrope densities. Then, by comparing lipotrope consumption via both French standard diet (INCA 2 survey) and Food guide pyramid, we evaluated that our consumption in betaine, choline and myo-inositol may be increased: this can be easily reached by choosing lipotrope-dense foods like beetroot, spinash or coffee. On a one euro-basis, grains products (i.e. cereals, and leguminous and oleaginous seeds) are the best compromise between a high LC and a cheap supply in lipotropes. However, it remains indispensable to carry out studies in humans to relate LC and prevalence of hepatic steatosis.
sciforum-000270	QSAR model based in the TOPSMODE approach used to predict chromosomal aberrations in bioactive phenolic compounds Estela Guardado Yordi , Maria João Matos , Roxana Castro Pupo , Lourdes Santana , Eugenio Uriarte , Enrique Molina Pérez Submitted: 06 Nov 2012 Abstract: Show Abstract	Estela Guardado Yordi , Maria João Matos , Roxana Castro Pupo , Lourdes Santana , Eugenio Uriarte , Enrique Molina Pérez	N/A	Show Abstract
The in silico characterization of bioactive substances which are constituents of functional foods or nutraceuticals is the methodology described in this communication. The aim of this work was to show the potential of the TOPSMODE approach as chemical-informatics method to study the structure/clastogenic activity (chromosomal aberrations) and identify structural alerts related to genotoxicity. The results of QSAR studies were analyzed for several classes of phenolic compounds (flavonoids, phenolic acids and coumarins) for which was required the use of software STATISTIC and MODESLAB and a mathematical model encoding topological information of a substructural level. It was observed that the criteria for maximum clastogenicity are the methoxy and hydroxyl polisubstitutions (methoxy > hydroxyl) and the polarity of the substituents. This was observed for all the analyzed subclasses. The confirmation of these results is based on the percentage of good classification for the used external databases, the recognition of physical chemical descriptors of polarity (μ₁^Pol y μ₂^Pol) and in the calculation of the fragments contribution. It can be conclude that QSAR methods, and in particular the used topographical approach, may constitute a predictive tool for the design and evaluation of bioactive components of functional foods or nutraceuticals.
sciforum-000271	Common beans and their non-digestible fraction: antitumor activities- An overview Haydé Vergara-Castañeda , Dave B Oomah , Guadalupe Loarca-Piña , Rocio Campos-Vega Submitted: 21 Dec 2012 Abstract: Show Abstract	Haydé Vergara-Castañeda , Dave B Oomah , Guadalupe Loarca-Piña , Rocio Campos-Vega	N/A	Show Abstract
The US Department of Agriculture\'s MyPyramid guidelines introduced a near doubling of the dietary recommendations for vegetables including dry beans, an important food staple in many traditional diets can improve diet quality. Populations with high legume (peas, beans, lentils) consumption have a low risk of cancer and chronic degenerative diseases. Common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) are known as a rich reliable source of non-digested compounds like fiber, phenolics, peptides and phytochemicals associated with health benefits. Emerging evidence indicates that common bean consumption is associated with reduced cancer risk in human populations, inhibiting carcinogenesis in animal models and inducing cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in cell cultures. Fiber may reduce the risk of premature death from all causes, while the whole non-digestible fraction from common beans has demonstrated anti- proliferative and apoptosis induction on in vitro and in vivo colon cancer. The mechanisms responsible for this apparently protective role may include gene-nutrient interactions and modulation of proteinsexpression. This review investigates the health potential of beans on tumor inhibition, examining their bioactivity, highlighting studies involving functional compounds, mainly non-digestible fraction, that modulate genes and proteins, helping to understand its chemopreventive role against the development of chronic diseases.
sciforum-000272	Analysis of Phenolic Compounds Extracted from Peanut Seed Testa Ronald Holser Submitted: 14 Nov 2012 Abstract: Show Abstract	Ronald Holser	N/A	Show Abstract
Peanuts (Arachis hypogaea) contain numerous phenolic compounds with antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. These secondary metabolites may be isolated as co-products from peanut skins or testae during peanut processing and have potential use in functional food or feed formulations. Peanut skins were extracted in ethanol and analyzed by mass spectrometry to identify major phenolic compounds. Extracts were analyzed by LC-MS (Accela-MSQ,ThermoFisher Scientific,Waltham, Massachusetts, USA). Separations were performed using a PFP column in reverse phase. The MS detector was scanned from 50 – 500 m/z in negative mode (ESI). Additional analysis of extracts was performed by GC-TOF (Leco Corp., St. Joseph, Michigan, USA). Spectral data collected by both instruments were used to obtain a profile of the phenolic compounds that included catechin, epicatechin, and several anthocyanidins. These results are expected to promote the use of phenolics obtained from inexpensive agricultural sources.