Editorial: Emerging unconventional plants for derived food products and ingredients

Maria Inês Dias; Rúbia C G Corrêa; Nadia Cristiane Steinmacher; José Pinela; Carla Pereira

doi:10.3389/fnut.2024.1373439

Editorial: Emerging unconventional plants for derived food products and ingredients

Front Nutr. 2024 Feb 23:11:1373439. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1373439. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Maria Inês Dias^{1

2}, Rúbia C G Corrêa³, Nadia Cristiane Steinmacher⁴, José Pinela^{1

2}, Carla Pereira^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Bragança, Portugal.
² Laboratório Associado para a Sustentabilidade e Tecnologia em Regiões de Montanha (SusTEC), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Bragança, Portugal.
³ Post-Graduate Program in Clean Technologies, Cesumar Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation-ICETI, Cesumar University-UNICESUMAR, Maringá, Brazil.
⁴ Departamento Acadêmico de Alimentos (DAALM), Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Medianeira, Brazil.

No abstract available

Keywords: alternative diets; bioactive compounds; food security; human nutrition; innovative food products; unconventional edible plants; wild food plants.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

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).