Reflecting on Food & Function highlights in 2023
The Food & Function Editorial Board and Editorial Office wish a very Happy New Year to our wonderful Food & Function community!
Since the inception of the journal, Food & Function has been firmly committed to publishing cutting-edge research. This commitment was evident as ever in 2023 - a year marked with exceptional research relating to the intricate relationship between food and its multifaceted functions on human health.
We hope you enjoy reading about some of our highlights from 2023.
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Most popular articles
Read some of our most popular articles from 2023:
Emily Woolf, Janée Terwoord, Nicole Litwin, Allegra Vazquez, Sylvia Lee, Nancy Ghanem, Kiri Michell, Brayden Smith, Lauren Grabos, Nathaniel Ketelhut, Nate Bachman, Meghan Smith, Melanie Le Sayec, Sangeeta Rao, Christopher L. Gentile, Tiffany Weir, Ana Rodriguez-Mateos, Douglas Seals, Frank Dinenno and Sarah Johnson
Shanshan Tian, Yanfeng Zhao, Li Qian, Su Jiang, Yunping Tang and Tao Han
Javier Ottaviani, Jodi Ensunsa, Reedmond Fong, Jennifer Kimball, Valentina Medici, Gunter Kuhnle, Alan Crozier, Hagen Schroeter and Catherine Kwik-Uribe
Highlighted in the news!:
Main Ern Ang, James Cowley, Kuok Yap, Michael Hahn, Deirdre Mikkelsen, Matthew Tucker, Barbara Williams and Rachel Burton
Highlighted in the news!:
Moeun Lee, Ye-Rang Yun, Eun Ji Choi, Jung Hee Song, Jin Yong Kang, Daun Kim, Ki Won Lee and Ji Yoon Chang
Conferences and community engagement
We're delighted to highlight some of the conferences we were involved in for 2023:
FENS 2023 (14th European Nutrition Conference)
Food & Function was thrilled to host a special symposium at the conference on the theme of "Biomarkers of Dietary Intake: Recent Advances and Challenges" chaired by our Editor-in-Chief Christine Morand and Executive Editor Rebecca Garton !
It was a packed session!
We were honoured to have luminary speakers during the session, including:
FSDH 2023 (7th International Conference on Food Structures, Digestion and Health)
Food & Function was pleased to support FSDH 2023 by sponsoring the poster prizes, which were presented by Associate Editor Elke Scholten ??
?? First place: Dr Gert-Jan Moggré from The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited with his poster titled "Technology development for barley based plant-based foods." (Not pictured)
?? Second place: Ms Mengxiao Yang from the Riddet Institute with her poster titled "Role of Ca2+ in pepsin-induced coagulation and hydrolysis of casein micelles during dynamic in vitro gastric digestion."
?? Third place: Ms Norma Cecille Bagarinao from the University of Otago with her poster titled "Potential of germination to improve the nutritional and techno-functional properties of proteins from grains and legumes."
Congratulations to all our winners!
Advancing the Science of Precision and Personalised Nutrition, an Australian Academy of Science Boden Research Conference
Attendees presented their research through short oral presentations and had the opportunity to hear from national and international speakers covering critical topics in the field of precision and personalised nutrition.
Prizes for the best oral presentations, supported by Food & Function, were awarded. Many congratulations to the winners!
We hope you have enjoyed reading about some of the conferences we attended and supported in 2023 and the leading work being published in the journal. The Food & Function team looks forward to an exciting year ahead, and the opportunity of meeting you at future events in 2024 and beyond.