Dear colleagues,

Following the success of our first two Electronic Conferences on Food Science, I am delighted to invite you to join The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Foods 2022 - "Food, Microbiome, and Health—A celebration of the 10th anniversary of Food’s impact on our wellbeing". I hope you will participate in this free E-conference, which will enable you to share and discuss your most recent research findings with the vibrant worldwide community of food scientists and technologists.

Food science and technology are gaining importance in response to the global need to carefully manage resources whilst providing wholesome and nutritious diets for the burgeoning world population. It is through collaboration, communication, and community that food scientists can help to ensure that a safe and healthy diet is available to all, thus eliminating starvation and food wastage.

Due to ongoing restrictions on travel and personal contact, it is a pleasure to still be able to collaborate electronically via Foods 2022 (3rd International Electronic Conference). This internet conference is designed to allow you to present your research to colleagues and interact as fully as possible with all those involved. For this, I thank the fantastic team at MDPI, who have set up and managed the complex arrangements required to allow us the opportunity to hold this virtual conference. l hope that you will meet old friends and make new ones. There will be many fascinating papers to spark everyone’s interest.

Foods 2022 is a new and exciting experience for me; I believe that it is a taste of the future. Foods 2022 will revolutionize dissemination in the field with a brand-new tool for sharing research in an online forum that will preserve the same high standards and structure as expected of traditional in-person conferences, but will be more inclusive by removing the cost and time barriers that prevent many from participating in international conferences.

Foods 2022 will make your presentation accessible to hundreds of researchers worldwide, with the active engagement of the audience in question and answer sessions and discussion groups that will take place online to enhance the experience. I hope you will join us in presenting your work at Foods 2022 and taking part in this thriving online experience.

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee. The authors of accepted contributions will be invited to produce an extended abstract for the conference proceedings, along with a slide presentation of their work. Following the conference, outstanding contributions will be invited to submit their work for publication in the Foods journal.

The conference has been divided into 12 sessions, but there will be a large amount of overlap between these sessions. Please submit your articles as soon as possible, indicating which session you believe best suits your submission.

Session 1: Food Formulations —Novel Ingredients and Food Additives;

Session 2: Innovative Processing Techniques;

Session 3: Food Analytical Methods and Components;

Session 4: Food Microbiology, Microbiome and Food Biotechnology;

Session 5: Food Nutrition, Microbiome and Human Health;

Session 6: Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods;

Session 7: Foods Quality and Safety;

Session 8: Food Security and Sustainability;

Session 9: Plant Foods;

Session 10: Foods of Marine Origin;

Session 11: Food Toxicology;

Session 12: Drinks and Liquid Nutrition.

The future of humanity depends on managing the Earth’s resources and, importantly, providing a healthy, sustaining diet for a burgeoning population. Food Science and Technology are the key areas that are needed to achieve this.

Best regards,

Prof. Dr. Arun K. Bhunia

Chair of Foods2022

Conference Secretariats

Ms. Joie Wu
Ms. Stacy Luo
Mr. Paul Qi
Email: [email protected]

To present your research at the Foods2022:

1. Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one, then click on ‘New Submission’ in the upper-right corner of the window, or by clicking on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.
2. Submit a short abstract in English (150-300 words) before 1st July 2022.
3. The Conference Committee will evaluate all the submitted abstracts, and authors will be notified by 15th July 2022 about acceptance.
4. The authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit at least one type of these submissions: proceedings paper, presentation slides, poster presentation and/or video presentation before 15th August 2022.
5. All accepted files will be available online for discussion and rating during the time of the conference (1-15 October 2022). After the conference, they will remain available online for reading on Sciforum.net.
6. The Conference Committee will select some submissions to give a talk live in one of the live-streaming webinars that will be held during the conference.
7. All accepted proceedings papers will be published in the proceedings of this e-conference within a dedicated issue of the MDPI journal Biology and Life Sciences Forum (Proceedings).
8. Participants of this e-conference will also be encouraged to submit a full paper to the conference Special Issue in Foods with a 20% discount on the article processing charge (APC).

Proceedings Papers

Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the Proceedings template and converted to PDF before submission. They should follow this organization:

• Title
• Full author names
• Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions
• Conflict of Interest
• (Acknowledgements)
• References

The manuscript should be at least three pages (including figures, tables, and references) and not exceed 6 pages. Authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose on the text and make the layout very difficult.

Please note that the manuscript cannot be published in any place other than the conference proceedings. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal website and ensure that your manuscript submission adheres to these guidelines.

Presentation Slides

Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides can be prepared the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted to PDF format before submission.

Video Presentations

Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. This is a unique way of presenting your research and discussing it with peers from all over the world. Video should be no longer than 3-5 minutes and prepared with one of the following formats: .mp4/.webm/.ogg (max size: 200Mb). It should be submitted before 15th August 2022.

Posters

Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. Like papers presented at the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters without an accompanying Proceedings paper should be presented in the Poster Session (Session 10).

After abstract acceptance, if you wish to submit your presentation slides, poster, or video without a Proceedings paper, please upload a copy of the short abstract as PDF and Word files, in the corresponding required fields, and upload your file in the corresponding optional field. Submissions without a Proceedings paper will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.

Special Issue Submission
Full paper versions of accepted submissions are encouraged to be submitted to the conference Special Issue (will be announced soon) after the conference. These full papers should be novel and significantly different from the Proceedings papers. These papers will be subject to peer review after they are submitted using the journal submission system.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. This should be conveyed in a separate ‘Conflict of Interest’ statement preceding the ‘Acknowledgments’ and ‘References’ sections at the end of the manuscript. If there is no conflict, please state ‘The authors declare no conflict of interest.’ Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under the ‘Acknowledgments’ section.

Copyright

MDPI, the owner 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 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).