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Following the success of Peer Review Week in September 2016 (dedicated to reviewer recognition) during which we published a list of our top reviewers, we are delighted to announce that we will continue to recognise the contribution that our reviewers make to the journal by announcing our Outstanding Reviewers each year.

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Food & Function in 2016, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Professor Hitoshi Ashida, Kobe University

Dr Lillian Barros, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança

Professor Zhen-yu Chen, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor Steven Feng Chen, Peking University

Dr Monica Galleano, University of Buenos Aires-National Council of Scientific and Technological Research

Dr Jing Hao, China Agricultural University

Dr Andrew Neilson, Virginia Tech

Dr Gianluca Picariello, National Research Council of Italy

Dr Gabriela Salvador, Universidad Nacional del Sur

Professor Gow-Chin Yen, National Chung Hsing University

We would also like to thank the Food & Function board and the food research community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.


If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé.  You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

If your Christmas was anything like mine, then you ate an awful lot of cheese. I love mature cheddar, and I’m partial to brie, but don’t offer me anything blue. I always thought my taste buds dictated my choices but recent research has shown that your physiology can affect how you perceive food.

To test for a link between physiology and taste, Elisabeth Guichard from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, and colleagues combined cheddar, soft cheese, butter, protein powder, salt and water in different proportions to create four model cheeses with differing fat content and firmness. They then trained 14 taste testers to recognise the odour of two specific compounds – nonan-2-one, which gives blue cheese its notable smell, and ethyl propanoate, which gives cheese a fruity odour – and rate their perception of these two compounds in the cheese they tasted. At the same time the researchers recorded the testers’ chewing activity and saliva composition.

Read the full article in Chemistry World >>>

Model cheese aroma perception is explained not only by in vivo aroma release but also by salivary composition and oral processing parameter
E. Guichard, M. Repoux, E. M. Qannari, H. Laboure and G. Feron
Food Funct., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6FO01472K

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