Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101367
Carole Honoré-Chedozeau , Dominique Valentin
Climate change and evolving societal expectations have impacted the wine industry, putting pressure on production and sales. In response, the industry has introduced various innovations that break with conventional practices and are beginning to emerge on the global market. In viticulture, three noteworthy strategies involve cultivating grape varieties that can withstand extreme weather, such as developing fungus-resistant varieties, migrating drought-tolerant varieties northwards, and reviving autochthonous varieties. In oenology, wine production is evolving towards more natural and healthier wines, such as sulphite-free or alcohol-free. This opinion-driven review summarises the merits and drawbacks of these innovations, examining professionals’ and consumers’ attitudes through the latest food science studies. Developing resistant varieties and reviving forgotten ones appear to offer great potential for growth, which professionals and consumers seem willing to support. Reducing the alcohol content would also be beneficial for the future, given the trend towards moderation in consumption.
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At the crossroads of a growing interest in fermented foods as part of a healthy, sustainable diet and advances in multi-omics technologies stands the need for developing new types of fermented foods while improving traditional ones. The scientific path toward these challenges lies in our capacity to rationalize and predict microbial interactions. For this, genome or metagenome-scale metabolic modeling represents a promising approach. We assess its benefits and limits through rare examples in the field of food microbiomes and advocate for community-level metabolic engineering as the superior strategy. We underline their power as a cornerstone in comprehensive and rational strategies for optimization of microbial consortia assembly, whether they are used in bottom-up or top-down approaches. We raise the challenges and bottlenecks of integrating the dynamics of microbial communities and present how we foresee their potential for shaping the future of fermented foods and regulatory science, bridging gaps between knowledge and innovation.
{"title":"Microbiome metabolic modeling as a tool for innovation in fermented foods","authors":"Elham Karimi, Julien Tap, Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès, Stéphane Chaillou","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101368","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101368","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>At the crossroads of a growing interest in fermented foods as part of a healthy, sustainable diet and advances in multi-omics technologies stands the need for developing new types of fermented foods while improving traditional ones. The scientific path toward these challenges lies in our capacity to rationalize and predict microbial interactions. For this, genome or metagenome-scale metabolic modeling represents a promising approach. We assess its benefits and limits through rare examples in the field of food microbiomes and advocate for community-level metabolic engineering as the superior strategy. We underline their power as a cornerstone in comprehensive and rational strategies for optimization of microbial consortia assembly, whether they are used in bottom-up or top-down approaches. We raise the challenges and bottlenecks of integrating the dynamics of microbial communities and present how we foresee their potential for shaping the future of fermented foods and regulatory science, bridging gaps between knowledge and innovation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 101368"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145697908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This opinion-driven review examines the evolving language of wine through the lens of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, anchored in Adrienne Lehrer’s Wine and Conversation (1983; 2009) masterpiece. Focusing on five widely used descriptors, namely ‘balance’, ‘bouquet’, ‘body’, ‘elegance’, and ‘minerality’, it synthesises scholarship from 2019 to 2025 to trace the conceptual mappings these terms mobilise and how their usage adapts to contemporary pressures. Evidence indicates recalibration rather than erosion: bouquet appears to decline in consumer-facing copy while persisting in professional discourse, and cross-cultural accounts reveal locally inflected routes to elegance. Stakeholder asymmetries in comprehension, particularly of body and minerality, are highlighted. Practical implications include dual-register tasting notes and cross-modal visual cues that enhance accessibility while retaining metaphorical richness. Overall, metaphor remains a productive resource for mediating sensory experience, identity, and value in wine.
{"title":"Wine and Conversation: Tracing innovation in wine metaphors","authors":"Heber Rodrigues , Yvonne Seier Christensen , Allison Creed","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101362","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101362","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This opinion-driven review examines the evolving language of wine through the lens of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, anchored in Adrienne Lehrer’s <em>Wine and Conversation</em> (1983; 2009) masterpiece. Focusing on five widely used descriptors, namely ‘balance’, ‘bouquet’, ‘body’, ‘elegance’, and ‘minerality’, it synthesises scholarship from 2019 to 2025 to trace the conceptual mappings these terms mobilise and how their usage adapts to contemporary pressures. Evidence indicates recalibration rather than erosion: bouquet appears to decline in consumer-facing copy while persisting in professional discourse, and cross-cultural accounts reveal locally inflected routes to elegance. Stakeholder asymmetries in comprehension, particularly of body and minerality, are highlighted. Practical implications include dual-register tasting notes and cross-modal visual cues that enhance accessibility while retaining metaphorical richness. Overall, metaphor remains a productive resource for mediating sensory experience, identity, and value in wine.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101362"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145519923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101364
Ana Lídia Martins Magalhães , Ana Paula Rebellato , Victor Guilherme Sebastião , Williara Queiroz de Oliveira , Caroline Joy Steel
Cereals and cereal-based products are important in daily nutrition, providing a considerable percentage of total calories and containing micronutrients such as vitamins, bioactive compounds, and minerals. However, processing can degrade these compounds, reducing their nutritional value and health benefits. To minimize this problem, the inclusion of natural compounds rich in bioactives in cereal products can be a promising strategy to reduce losses during processing. Anthocyanins stand out for their extensive health benefits; they are recognized as natural water-soluble pigments, contributing unique colors and flavors to foods. Thus, this review addresses current technological aspects, advantages, and disadvantages of applying anthocyanins to assist in the development of nutritionally superior and functional cereal-based products. Additionally, it explores a comprehensive understanding of the bioavailability, bioaccessibility, and interactions of anthocyanins with the human microbiota.
{"title":"Advantages and challenges associated with the enrichment of cereal-based products with anthocyanins","authors":"Ana Lídia Martins Magalhães , Ana Paula Rebellato , Victor Guilherme Sebastião , Williara Queiroz de Oliveira , Caroline Joy Steel","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101364","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101364","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cereals and cereal-based products are important in daily nutrition, providing a considerable percentage of total calories and containing micronutrients such as vitamins, bioactive compounds, and minerals. However, processing can degrade these compounds, reducing their nutritional value and health benefits. To minimize this problem, the inclusion of natural compounds rich in bioactives in cereal products can be a promising strategy to reduce losses during processing. Anthocyanins stand out for their extensive health benefits; they are recognized as natural water-soluble pigments, contributing unique colors and flavors to foods. Thus, this review addresses current technological aspects, advantages, and disadvantages of applying anthocyanins to assist in the development of nutritionally superior and functional cereal-based products. Additionally, it explores a comprehensive understanding of the bioavailability, bioaccessibility, and interactions of anthocyanins with the human microbiota.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101364"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145519925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101366
Hye Ji Jang , Hyun-Sook Lee , Hyun-Dong Paik
With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems in food technology (FoodTech), food hygiene is evolving through the integration of technologies, such as automated monitoring and blockchain, and ensuring transparency, traceability, and safety. Food Safety 4.0, Al-based food hygiene system derived industry 4.0, comprehensively manages all aspects of food safety using FoodTech. The term ‘FoodTech’ itself is a combination of ‘food’ and ‘technology,’ reflecting the convergence of advanced technologies within the food industry. As a representative example of Food Safety 4.0, the real-time monitoring of food safety parameters enables early detection and elimination of potential hazards before products reach consumers. Furthermore, technologies such as blockchain improve transparency and traceability throughout the food supply chain, reinforcing trust between food producers and consumers by ensuring accountability at each stage of production and distribution. This review aims to provide an overview of FoodTech and discuss its potential in enhancing food hygiene and safety.
{"title":"Emerging trends in food hygiene: Innovations and applications of food technology","authors":"Hye Ji Jang , Hyun-Sook Lee , Hyun-Dong Paik","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101366","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101366","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems in food technology (FoodTech), food hygiene is evolving through the integration of technologies, such as automated monitoring and blockchain, and ensuring transparency, traceability, and safety. Food Safety 4.0, Al-based food hygiene system derived industry 4.0, comprehensively manages all aspects of food safety using FoodTech. The term ‘FoodTech’ itself is a combination of ‘food’ and ‘technology,’ reflecting the convergence of advanced technologies within the food industry. As a representative example of Food Safety 4.0, the real-time monitoring of food safety parameters enables early detection and elimination of potential hazards before products reach consumers. Furthermore, technologies such as blockchain improve transparency and traceability throughout the food supply chain, reinforcing trust between food producers and consumers by ensuring accountability at each stage of production and distribution. This review aims to provide an overview of FoodTech and discuss its potential in enhancing food hygiene and safety.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101366"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145571375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101365
Yixuan Liu, Min Wang, Juan M Castagnini, Francisco J Barba, Andrea Asensio-Grau
Microalgae are emerging as a valuable source of bioactive compounds with significant potential to modulate gut microbiota and improve human health. This review explores the roles of microalgal-derived polysaccharides, peptides, polyunsaturated fatty acids, polyphenols, pigments, and micronutrients in shaping intestinal microbial composition and function. These compounds promote beneficial bacteria, inhibit pathogens, enhance immune responses, and regulate key metabolic pathways through the production of short-chain fatty acids and other microbial metabolites. Moreover, microalgae exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antitumor properties that may support the prevention of chronic diseases. However, challenges such as bioavailability, safety, individual microbiota variability, and industrial scalability must be addressed. Despite these limitations, microalgae hold promise as sustainable, multifunctional ingredients for developing functional foods and therapeutic interventions. Future research could focus on clinical validation, optimized extraction methods, and personalized nutrition approaches to fully harness the health benefits of microalgae-derived bioactive compounds in modulating the gut microbiota.
{"title":"The impact of microalgae-derived bioactive compounds on gut microbiota modulation","authors":"Yixuan Liu, Min Wang, Juan M Castagnini, Francisco J Barba, Andrea Asensio-Grau","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101365","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101365","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Microalgae are emerging as a valuable source of bioactive compounds with significant potential to modulate gut microbiota and improve human health. This review explores the roles of microalgal-derived polysaccharides, peptides, polyunsaturated fatty acids, polyphenols, pigments, and micronutrients in shaping intestinal microbial composition and function. These compounds promote beneficial bacteria, inhibit pathogens, enhance immune responses, and regulate key metabolic pathways through the production of short-chain fatty acids and other microbial metabolites. Moreover, microalgae exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antitumor properties that may support the prevention of chronic diseases. However, challenges such as bioavailability, safety, individual microbiota variability, and industrial scalability must be addressed. Despite these limitations, microalgae hold promise as sustainable, multifunctional ingredients for developing functional foods and therapeutic interventions. Future research could focus on clinical validation, optimized extraction methods, and personalized nutrition approaches to fully harness the health benefits of microalgae-derived bioactive compounds in modulating the gut microbiota.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101365"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145519926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101363
Dipanjan Das , Rittick Mondal , Pankaj Mandal , Debnirmalya Gangopadhyay , Amit K Mandal
The evolving landscape of food safety is increasingly challenged by diverse contaminants, underscoring the need for rapid, sensitive, and consumer-friendly detection technologies. While conventional laboratory-based assays provide high analytical accuracy, they are often costly, labor-intensive, and unsuitable for real-time monitoring. Aptasensors have recently gained attention as promising alternatives due to their high specificity, thermal stability, and adaptability for diverse food safety applications. Advances in Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment (SELEX) methodologies, nanomaterial-assisted transduction, and signal amplification have supported versatile platforms. Recent innovations include AI-assisted fluorescent aptasensors, paper-based and microfluidic devices, and smartphone-integrated systems for point-of-care applications. Dual-mode aptasensors further enhance sensitivity and recovery, broadening their practical utility. However, challenges remain regarding reproducibility, long-term stability, scalability, and regulatory validation. This mini-review highlights innovations, persisting limitations, and integration opportunities, emphasizing the potential of aptasensors to support responsive and regulation-compliant food safety monitoring.
{"title":"Aptamer-based sensing in food science: precision tools for enhanced consumer safety and perception","authors":"Dipanjan Das , Rittick Mondal , Pankaj Mandal , Debnirmalya Gangopadhyay , Amit K Mandal","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101363","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101363","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The evolving landscape of food safety is increasingly challenged by diverse contaminants, underscoring the need for rapid, sensitive, and consumer-friendly detection technologies. While conventional laboratory-based assays provide high analytical accuracy, they are often costly, labor-intensive, and unsuitable for real-time monitoring. Aptasensors have recently gained attention as promising alternatives due to their high specificity, thermal stability, and adaptability for diverse food safety applications. Advances in Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment (SELEX) methodologies, nanomaterial-assisted transduction, and signal amplification have supported versatile platforms. Recent innovations include AI-assisted fluorescent aptasensors, paper-based and microfluidic devices, and smartphone-integrated systems for point-of-care applications. Dual-mode aptasensors further enhance sensitivity and recovery, broadening their practical utility. However, challenges remain regarding reproducibility, long-term stability, scalability, and regulatory validation. This mini-review highlights innovations, persisting limitations, and integration opportunities, emphasizing the potential of aptasensors to support responsive and regulation-compliant food safety monitoring.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101363"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145519924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101361
Greet Schoeters , Stijn Boodts , Ann Colles , Eva Govarts , Thimo Groffen
Exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and how to reduce exposure is worldwide debated, leads to new regulations and advice for food consumption. PFAS are a complex class of chemicals. These so-called ‘forever chemicals’ are ubiquitous in the environment and consumer products, enter the food chain, and are detected in human bodies worldwide. Human PFAS serum concentrations are associated with dietary intake of certain foods. Seafood and offal consumption, packaged and wrapped foods, and food grown in contaminated areas are often associated with higher serum PFAS levels, while the reverse holds for more plant-based and more fibers containing diets. In contaminated areas, consumption of some local foods should be discouraged. However, for effective reduction of human exposure through food, more information is needed on sources and transfer of PFAS into agricultural products and processed foods, not only for legacy PFAS but also for short-chain PFAS and their precursors.
{"title":"Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in food and their contribution to human exposure","authors":"Greet Schoeters , Stijn Boodts , Ann Colles , Eva Govarts , Thimo Groffen","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101361","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101361","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and how to reduce exposure is worldwide debated, leads to new regulations and advice for food consumption. PFAS are a complex class of chemicals. These so-called ‘forever chemicals’ are ubiquitous in the environment and consumer products, enter the food chain, and are detected in human bodies worldwide. Human PFAS serum concentrations are associated with dietary intake of certain foods. Seafood and offal consumption, packaged and wrapped foods, and food grown in contaminated areas are often associated with higher serum PFAS levels, while the reverse holds for more plant-based and more fibers containing diets. In contaminated areas, consumption of some local foods should be discouraged. However, for effective reduction of human exposure through food, more information is needed on sources and transfer of PFAS into agricultural products and processed foods, not only for legacy PFAS but also for short-chain PFAS and their precursors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101361"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145466558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101360
Gérard Liger-Belair, Florian Lecasse
Bubbling is indeed the hallmark of every sparkling beverage. When poured into a glass, the consumer’s very first visual contact with the sparkling drink lies in the presence of bubbles rising gracefully in the form of very characteristic bubble columns, or bubble trains. To the naked eye, bubbles seem to continuously nucleate from several specific sites of the glass wall, called nucleation sites. Many preconceived ideas are nevertheless still spread today about the visual characteristics of these trains of bubbles and the organoleptic properties of the drink. In this overview, the many relevant physicochemical parameters at play impacting the visual aspect of these bubble trains, a real hallmark of sparkling drinks, are presented, discussed, and put into perspective.
{"title":"Decoding the visual aesthetics of bubble trains in sparkling drinks","authors":"Gérard Liger-Belair, Florian Lecasse","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101360","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101360","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bubbling is indeed the hallmark of every sparkling beverage. When poured into a glass, the consumer’s very first visual contact with the sparkling drink lies in the presence of bubbles rising gracefully in the form of very characteristic bubble columns, or bubble trains. To the naked eye, bubbles seem to continuously nucleate from several specific sites of the glass wall, called <em>nucleation sites</em>. Many preconceived ideas are nevertheless still spread today about the visual characteristics of these trains of bubbles and the organoleptic properties of the drink. In this overview, the many relevant physicochemical parameters at play impacting the visual aspect of these bubble trains, a real hallmark of sparkling drinks, are presented, discussed, and put into perspective.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101360"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145363225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-09DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101357
Ping Zhang , Peng Wu , Changyong Li , Renpan Deng , Xiao Dong Chen
Aging induces physiological changes that impair gastrointestinal (GI) function, which together compromise digestion and nutrient absorption and increase the risk of malnutrition. Although the general impact of aging on GI health is recognized, quantitative and mechanistic comparisons with younger populations remain limited. This review highlights recent progress and challenges in assessing elderly digestion, with emphasis on the transition from in vivo studies to physiologically relevant in vitro systems. Innovations such as dynamic models with tunable enzyme activities, age-adjusted motility, altered mucus properties, and realistic oral-phase simulation are advancing the field. The integration of features like reduced salivary flow, slower peristalsis, and microbial shifts has improved model fidelity, while mastication simulators, fermentation modules, and co-culture cell models further enhance predictive capacity. Nonetheless, replicating the complex interplay between digestion, absorption, and microbiota remains difficult. Future modular, responsive models will better inform nutritional strategies to support healthy aging.
{"title":"Modeling age-related gastrointestinal changes in food digestion: progress and challenges in transitioning from in vivo studies to physiologically relevant in vitro systems","authors":"Ping Zhang , Peng Wu , Changyong Li , Renpan Deng , Xiao Dong Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101357","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101357","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Aging induces physiological changes that impair gastrointestinal (GI) function, which together compromise digestion and nutrient absorption and increase the risk of malnutrition. Although the general impact of aging on GI health is recognized, quantitative and mechanistic comparisons with younger populations remain limited. This review highlights recent progress and challenges in assessing elderly digestion, with emphasis on the transition from <em>in vivo</em> studies to physiologically relevant <em>in vitro</em> systems. Innovations such as dynamic models with tunable enzyme activities, age-adjusted motility, altered mucus properties, and realistic oral-phase simulation are advancing the field. The integration of features like reduced salivary flow, slower peristalsis, and microbial shifts has improved model fidelity, while mastication simulators, fermentation modules, and co-culture cell models further enhance predictive capacity. Nonetheless, replicating the complex interplay between digestion, absorption, and microbiota remains difficult. Future modular, responsive models will better inform nutritional strategies to support healthy aging.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54291,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Food Science","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101357"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145363226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}