About this Research Topic
With the rapid development of new technologies and new materials in the field of analytical chemistry, the analysis of phytonutrients in complex plant foods can be achieved in more comprehensive, automatic, rapid, accurate, and trace manners. However, how to rapidly recognize the bioactive phytonutrient for specific targets without purification is still a key problem. Nowadays, some new techniques are proposed for rapid recognition of novel phytonutrients for specific targets in plant foods without purification, such as ligand-fishing, disease models-based metabonomics (cells or animal), etc. This topic aims to highlight recent advances in new method development and application for rapid recognition of bioactive phytonutrients for specific targets in plant foods.
The specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Development and application of new techniques for rapid discovery and recognition of phytonutrients with specific biological activity.
• Discovery and recognition of trace phytonutrients with specific biological activity from complex plant foods.
• Discovery and recognition of phytonutrients against multiple targets from complex plant foods.
Keywords: Phytonutrients; New analytical methods; Target-based recognition; Metabonomics; Biological activity
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