Fereidoon Shahidi is a university

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at Memorial University of Newfoundland in

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.https://www.mun.ca/faculty/fshahidi/ Shahidi is the author of over 600

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and book chapters, has also authored or edited 40 books. His research contributions have led to several industrial developments worldwide. Shahidi’s current research interests include different areas of

nutraceuticals A nutraceutical or bioceutical is a pharmaceutical alternative which claims physiological benefits. In the US, "nutraceuticals" are largely unregulated, as they exist in the same category as dietary supplements and food additives by the FDA, und ...

and

functional food A functional food is a food claimed to have an additional (often one related to health promotion or disease prevention) by adding new ingredients or more of existing ingredients. The term may also apply to traits purposely bred into existing edib ...

s, natural antioxidants, marine foods and aquaculture. Shahidi serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Functional Foods, Journal of Food Lipids, an editor of

Food Chemistry Food chemistry is the study of chemical processes and interactions of all biological and non-biological components of foods. The biological substances include such items as meat, poultry, lettuce, beer, milk as examples. It is similar to biochemist ...

as well as an

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member of a number of journals, including the

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Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry The ''Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry'' is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1953 by the American Chemical Society. Since 2015, Thomas Hofmann (Technical University of Munich) has been the editor-in-chief. The jou ...

, Nutraceuticals and Food, International Journal of Food Properties, Current Nutrition and Food Science and

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. Shahidi has received numerous awards, including the 2005 Stephen Chang Award from the

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, for his outstanding contributions to science and technology. Between 1996 and 2006, Shahidi was the most published and most frequently cited scientist in the area of food,

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, and agricultural science as listed by the ISI. He is: PhD, FACS, FCIC, FCIFST, FIAFoST, FIFT, FRSC

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shahidi, Freidoon Living people Canadian chemists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Academic staff of the Memorial University of Newfoundland Year of birth missing (living people)