Food industries are developing new processing technologies, resulting in the emergence of product categories, including ready-to-eat meals, functional foods and beverages, plant-based foods, etc. Rapid globalization, changes lifestyle, consumer awareness, perception toward food drive further technical advancements. However, remains prime factor for marketing technological development. Consumer ...

Food safety has become an important food quality attribute.Both food industry and authorities need to be able to trace back and to authenticate food products and raw materials used for food production to comply with legislation and to meet the food safety and food quality requirements. Traceability is increasingly becoming a necessary task in the food industry which is mainly driven by recent f...

The aim of the present study was to describe the association of fast food consumption with BMI, energy intake and diet quality in a Mediterranean population. The subjects were Spanish men (n 1491) and women (n 1563) aged 25-74 years who were examined in 1999-2000, in a population-based cross-sectional survey in northeast Spain (Girona). Dietary intake was assessed using a FFQ that included four...