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Aims & Scope
The Nutrition and Food in health and disease is a peer‑reviewed scientific journal that publishes high‑quality, original work across the broad fields of nutrition, food, and public health. We welcome manuscripts that advance scientific understanding and public health practice, including:
- Original research articles (human, animal, and laboratory studies)
- Study protocols (submitted before or at the start of participant recruitment)
- Systematic reviews and meta‑analyses
- Narrative reviews and expert commentaries that provide new insights or syntheses
- Randomized controlled trials and clinical studies
- Short communications, perspectives, and letters to the editor
Submission requirements
- Manuscripts must report original work and must not be under consideration by another journal or conference at the time of submission.
- All authors must agree to the submission and take responsibility for the manuscript’s content.
- Study protocols should be submitted before the commencement of the study or, at latest, during the subject‑recruitment phase; protocols describing completed studies will not be considered.
- Clinical trials must be registered in a publicly accessible trial registry prior to enrollment of the first participant and must comply with recognized ethical standards.
- Authors are encouraged to follow appropriate reporting guidelines (e.g., CONSORT, PRISMA, STROBE) and to provide structured abstracts and complete metadata.
Scope — topics we cover
Community nutrition and public‑health nutrition (dietary patterns, food choices, nutrition in vulnerable groups, socioeconomic determinants, community interventions)
- Food and nutrition policy, surveillance, and program evaluation
- Sustainable nutrition, food security, and global nutrition trends
- Nutritional epidemiology (including cohort and population studies)
- Nutritional biochemistry, immunology, and biomarkers of nutritional status
- Nutrients: physiology, metabolism, interactions, and requirements
- Clinical nutrition and nutrition‑related randomized controlled trials
- Cellular and molecular nutrition (nutrigenomics, nutrigenetics, nutrimetabolomics, nutriproteomics)
- Functional foods, food fortification, and biofortification
- Food safety, food microbiology, food toxicology, and contaminants
- Food processing and its impact on nutritional value and health
- Laboratory methods for nutrition assessment and new biomarkers
- Food‑borne disease epidemiology and prevention
Scope exclusions and emphasis
- The primary axis of all food‑science submissions must be nutrition and health. The nutrition or health relevance must be clear in the manuscript title and abstract.
- Manuscripts focusing solely on food chemistry, packaging, or engineering without an explicit link to nutritional outcomes or health impact are out of scope and will be declined.
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