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Safety assessment of botanicals: cutting through complexity 植物药的安全性评估：消除复杂性

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Current Opinion in Food Science Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101313

Hilva Gjoni , Davide Rovelli , Chiara Dall’Asta

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Solving the diet problem: meals as food choice heuristics for behaviour change 解决饮食问题：饮食作为行为改变的食物选择启发式

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Current Opinion in Food Science Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101317

Suzanna E Forwood

{"title":"Solving the diet problem: meals as food choice heuristics for behaviour change","authors":"Suzanna E Forwood","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101317","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101317","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The diet problem is the challenge of choosing a healthy and affordable combination of foods to eat. This problem is complex, involving many possible foods, food attributes, contexts, and potential combinations. The current thesis is that people solve the diet problem by using meals as food choice heuristics: quick and efficient solutions to the computationally elaborate diet problem faced daily. The planning and preparation of meals represent a food choice behaviour that is specific, shared with others and context dependent. Meals are a part of cuisine, which itself follows a set of rules or grammar that reflect what is essential, normal or taboo in a diet for an individual. These rules likely reflect culture, geography, history and social status. The parallels between meals and heuristics from behaviour research are discussed, including recent evidence that support the proposal that food choices are made using heuristics. The potential value of focusing on meals for dietary change interventions is also discussed. The current thesis is that interventions that target meals to promote positive dietary behaviour for the individual, society or planet could be more impactful than those that target single nutrients, food groups or holistic diets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 101317"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An innovative approach for probiotics and postbiotics-based antimicrobial packaging systems: design, characterization, and benefit for food application 一种基于益生菌和后益生菌的抗菌包装系统的创新方法：食品应用的设计、表征和效益

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Current Opinion in Food Science Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101315

Nour MH Awad , Vittorio Capozzi , Valérie Guillard , Gulden Goksen

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Update of mycotoxin monitoring in the Maghreb region (2019–2024): occurrence in staple food, current legislation, climate impact, and exposure assessment 马格里布地区真菌毒素监测最新情况（2019-2024年）：主食中的真菌毒素含量、现行立法、气候影响和暴露评估

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Current Opinion in Food Science Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101314

Abdellah Zinedine , Anas Zarati , Mohamed Bennani , Samir Abbes , Jalila Ben Salah-Abbes

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Recent advances in dietary phytochemicals against Alzheimer’s disease: extraction and multitarget evaluation of their effects 抗阿尔茨海默病膳食植物化学物质的研究进展：提取及其多靶点评价

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Current Opinion in Food Science Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101312

Mikaela Rajchman , Lidia Montero , Alberto Valdés , Miguel Herrero

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A practical evaluation of biometric measures for understanding the consumer experience during direct product evaluation: current and future perspectives 在直接产品评估过程中理解消费者体验的生物测量的实际评估：当前和未来的观点

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Current Opinion in Food Science Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101311

Jennifer Wagner , Joanne Hort

{"title":"A practical evaluation of biometric measures for understanding the consumer experience during direct product evaluation: current and future perspectives","authors":"Jennifer Wagner , Joanne Hort","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101311","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101311","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Companies need a good understanding of consumer experiences to develop successful in-market products. To aid this goal, there has been a move toward using implicit measures alongside explicit measures to gain insight into different levels of processing important for consumer decision-making. This has involved biometric tools such as those capturing facial behaviour, electroencephalography, eye-tracking, and those capturing autonomic nervous system measures, such as electrodermal activity. Here, current literature involving direct product evaluation and adopting biometric measures in sensory and consumer studies is reviewed. Findings show that technological advances make biometric tools a more practical choice in consumer studies than previously. Further, a trend is observed in studies synchronising the capture of multiple biometric measures alongside explicit measures, offering a deeper understanding of these measures and the information they provide. However, for biometric tools to be of real value in direct product evaluation, there is a need to enhance knowledge on result interpretation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101311"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144115824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Current Opinion in Food Science Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101309

Stergios Melios , Afroditi A. Asimakopoulou , Ciara M. Greene , Emily Crofton , Simona Grasso

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Strategies to overcome challenges in upcycling industrial side-streams into microalgae-based foods: Auxenochlorella protothecoides as a case study 克服将工业侧流升级为微藻基食品的挑战的策略：以原coides auxenolorella为例研究

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Current Opinion in Food Science Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101310

Alcine MZ Chan , Vivian JH Hau , Iris Haberkorn , Alexander Mathys , Shao-Quan Liu

{"title":"Strategies to overcome challenges in upcycling industrial side-streams into microalgae-based foods: Auxenochlorella protothecoides as a case study","authors":"Alcine MZ Chan , Vivian JH Hau , Iris Haberkorn , Alexander Mathys , Shao-Quan Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101310","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101310","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Side-streams, encompassing food-safe by-products and edible surpluses from the agri–food industry, represent an abundant source of untapped organic nutrients. Hence, upcycling side-streams into feedstocks for microalgae cultivation presents opportunities to enhance microbial food production and strengthen food security. However, challenges impede widespread implementation. Here, key challenges are identified, and strategies to overcome them are proposed. Strategies are exemplified with <em>Auxenochlorella protothecoides</em>, a microalga with commercial significance as bulk foods and speciality ingredients. Strategies to overcome challenges include, firstly, selecting side-streams rich in assimilable nutrients that fulfil species-specific metabolic demands and optimise growth and/or product yield. Secondly, tailored energy-efficient treatments of side-streams in individualised bioprocesses should be implemented to optimise nutrient recoveries, thereby improving economic and environmental feasibilities. Thirdly, blending different side-streams mitigates side-stream batch variability, nutrient deficiencies, and supply chain disruptions. Fourthly, a comprehensive assessment of side-stream effects on the nutritional, safety, and sensory attributes of the resulting biomass and/or extract is necessary to maintain food product quality. Fifthly, leveraging co-cultures overcomes the restricted substrate utilisation of microalgae monocultures, leading to improved resource recovery and potentially higher product yields. These strategies provide a roadmap for upcycling side-streams as feedstocks for microalgae-based and microbial food production to achieve net-zero waste and meet sustainable development goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101310"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143912140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Challenges and trends in the industrial production and application of cellooligosaccharides 纤维素低聚糖工业生产和应用的挑战和趋势

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Current Opinion in Food Science Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101308

Marcos F da Silva, Danilo Bueno, Rosana Goldbeck

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Online consumer research: more attention needs to be given to data quality 在线消费者研究：需要更多地关注数据质量

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Current Opinion in Food Science Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101307

Daniele Asioli , Sara R Jaeger

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