Food & Function
Last updated ISSN 2042-6496
Food & Function is published by Royal Society of Chemistry in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Food & Function concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Gut microbiota and health
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Proteins in Food Systems
- Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides
- Food composition and properties
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
- Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
- Natural Antidiabetic Agents Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2042-6496, 2042-650X |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 10,277 |
| Publishing since | 1919 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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