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Sustainable Food Technology

Cultivating sustainable solutions to food processing and engineering.

Editor-in-Chief: Jorge Barros Velázquez

Open Access: Gold

Sustainable Food Technology journal cover

What can we do to ensure food security around the globe? How do we end world hunger? Where can we find the solutions to produce food more sustainably?

Sustainable Food Technology seeks the answers to these big questions. While our companion journal, Food & Function, focuses on the purpose of food and its relation to health and nutrition, this new journal publishes high-quality sustainable research on food engineering and technologies. Key topics include food preservation methods, shelf life and the creation of greener packaging.

ISSN 2753-8095

Indexed in: Scopus, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Journal Impact factor

5.3 (provisional, pending JCR Data Update)

First decision time (all)

13.5 days

First decision time (peer reviewed)

48 days

Scope

Sustainable Food Technology is a gold open-access journal dedicated to publishing innovative strategies for producing safe, high-quality food in environmentally sustainable ways. This multidisciplinary journal publishes research spanning chemistry, physics, engineering, biotechnology, as well as environmental and materials science, all aimed at advancing sustainable solutions in food production.

We welcome novel green strategies for both crops and animal products throughout all post-harvest stages of food production. We also invite research in biotechnology and bioengineering aimed at increasing food production sustainably.

Manuscripts submitted to Sustainable Food Technology should focus on either applied or fundamental science and cover the development and optimisation of technologies aimed at improving post-harvest supply-chain of food. All manuscripts must address environmental, economic and/or health challenges associated with food sustainability.

The quantitative and/or qualitative aspect of sustainability e.g. water usage, energy efficiency, process intensification, by-product extraction, or benchmarking of proposed sustainable packaging against conventional should be demonstrated and discussed.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Novel and sustainable food resources and food ingredients
  • Food fortification
  • Food production systems requiring less energy and water consumption
  • Nanotechnology and biosensors in food processing, packaging and safety
  • Data harmonisation, digitalisation and artificial intelligence to assist food production and control
  • Omics-based food traceability tools to prevent economic and sanitary threats
  • Biotechnology, bioengineering, and cellular agriculture approaches to enhance food production, quality, or safety
  • Emerging techniques in food preservation and processing: food engineering innovations, non-thermal methods, bioactive compounds
  • Green active and intelligent packaging and storage systems
  • Circular economy approaches , including methods that enhance the value of food by-products and food waste (recovery and valorisation)
  • Life cycle analysis and sustainability metrics in food production and processing
  • Sustainable intensification of food production and processing

Manuscripts must show significant novelty and exhibit cutting-edge technologies or engineering advances. Sufficient chemical, microbiological and/or nutritional analysis must be provided to justify claims of novelty, interest and applicability of the research presented.

Manuscripts without a foundation in sustainability, or studies that are purely descriptive in nature are not suitable for publication in this journal.

The following fields of study are not included in the scope of Sustainable Food Technology:

  • Nutritional studies – these can be published in Food & Function
  • Routine applications of well-established processing and preservation techniques
  • Compositional analyses of conventional foods not representing novel food resources
  • In-vitro characterization of microorganisms not performed in food models or food systems
  • Incremental advances or application of agricultural practices

We need to find the solutions to our biggest challenges in food production and processing. Sustainable Food Technology acts as a forum for scientists worldwide who wish to produce better, safer foods that respect our environment. I am more than delighted to be part of this exciting project

Jorge Barros Velázquez, Editor-in-Chief, Sustainable Food Technology


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Meet the team

Jorge Barros Velázquez

Jorge Barros Velázquez

Editor-in-chief

University of Santiago de Compostela

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Benu Adhikari

Benu Adhikari

Associate Editor

RMIT University

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Adriano Brandelli

Adriano Brandelli

Associate Editor

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

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Xin Rui

Xin Rui

Associate Editor

Nanjing Agricultural University

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Rekha S. Singhal

Rekha S. Singhal

Associate Editor

Institute of Chemical Technology

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Qin Wang

Qin Wang

Associate Editor

University of Maryland

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Paula Bourke

Paula Bourke

Editorial Board Member

University College Dublin

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Cristóbal N. Aguilar

Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila

Maria Angela A Meireles

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Rafael Auras

 Michigan State University

Bhesh Bhandari

University of Queensland

Maria G. Corradini

University of Guelph

Sakamon Devahastin

King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT

Tian Ding

Zhejiang University

Hao Feng

North Carolina A&T State University

Adriano Gomes da Cruz

Integra IFRJ

Elena Ibañez

CIAL-CSIC

Joe P. Kerry

University College Cork

Olga Martín-Belloso

University of Lleida

Gert Meijer

Nestlé

Manjusri Misra

University of Guelph

Solange I. Mussatto

Technical University of Denmark

Ian Noble

Mondelez International

Indrawati Oey

University of Otago

Caio Otoni

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Linus Opara

Stellenbosch University

Federico Pallottino

CREA-IT

Marco Poiana

Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria

Bert Popping

FOCOS

Anet Režek Jambrak

University of Zagreb

Victor Rodov

Agricultural Research Organization - The Volcani Institute

Andreas Schieber

University of Bonn

Aimin Shi

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Juming Tang

Washington State University

Paula Teixeira

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Long Yu

South China University of Technology

Min Zhang

Jiangnan University

Anna Rulka

Executive Editor

Audra Taylor

Deputy Editor

Viktoria Titmus

Editorial Production Manager

Angelica-Jane Onyekwere

Assistant Editor

Zareena Saleem

Assistant Editor

Michael Whitelaw

Assistant Editor

Alexander Whiteside

Assistant Editor

Samantha Campos

Editorial Assistant

Jasmin AP

Publishing Assistant

Neil Hammond

Publisher

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