Author(s):
Dias, Maria Inês ; Corrêa, Rúbia C.G. ; Steinmacher, Nadia Cristiane ; Pinela, José ; Pereira, Carla
Date: 2024
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/29739
Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
Project/scholarship:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F00690%2F2020/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F00690%2F2020/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/CEEC INST 2018/CEECINST%2F00016%2F2018%2FCP1505%2FCT0004/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/CEEC INST 2018/CEECINST%2F00016%2F2018%2FCP1505%2FCT0010/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/CEEC IND 2018/CEECIND%2F01011%2F2018%2FCP1578%2FCT0002/PT;
Subject(s): Innovative food products; Unconventional edible plants; Wild food plants; Human nutrition,; Bioactive compounds; Alternative diets; Food security
Description
The “Emerging Unconventional Plants for Derived Food Products and Ingredients” Frontiers in Nutrition Research Topic aimed to address innovative solutions to ensure food security, such as nutrient-rich alternatives, sustainable agriculture, and advanced industrial technologies, by exploring Unconventional Edible Plants for developing new, nutritious, and safer food products. This Topic falls in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, driven by societal, economic, and environmental factors, to eliminate world hunger and poverty. Research on sustainable agriculture, nutritional profiling, and innovative food development holds promise in integrating these unconventional plants into daily base diets worldwide, a perspective that has been shared in academia, not only for food purposes (1) but also medicine (2). The present Research Topic gathered 41 authors from China, Israel, India, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia that provided in-depth scientific knowledge regarding the potentiality of unconventional plants to be applied as functional ingredients in food and pharmaceutical formulations. The use of Unconventional Plants has been carried out for hundreds of years by local populations, who, knowing their attributes, use them in their daily lives for various purposes. By applying state of the art technologies and methodologies in the studies mentioned above, we have clear examples of the practicality of this topic at an economic level, but above all at a social level.
The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. To the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), P.I. (FCT, Portugal) for the financial support through national funds FCT/MCTES to CIMO (UIDB/00690/2020 and UIDP/00690/2020), SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2021) and UIDB/50006/2020. National funding by FCT, P.I., through the institutional scientific employment program contract for MD (10.54499/CEECINST/00016/2018/CP1505/CT0004), CP (10.54499/CEECINST/00016/2018/CP1505/CT0010), and individual contract of JP (10.54499/CEECIND/01011/2018/ CP1578/CT0002). RC is a research grant recipient of Cesumar Institute of Science Technology and Innovation (ICETI).
