We proudly launch a new journal, eFood [1], to the scientific community and we would like to warmly welcome our readers, contributors, scientific editors and editorial board members of the eFood journal. With eFood, our goal is to provide a new open access forum to meet global food and health challenges. Given the fact that food science and technology is a rapidly growing field, we believe scientists all over the world should have an opportunity to expedite reporting of their findings and more importantly, all readers should have free open access to these important and exciting findings. This is the major reason that we launched this new journal.

Officially affiliated with the International Association of Dietetic Nutrition and Safety (IADNS), eFood is co-organized by Dalian Polytechnic University (China) and Jinan University (China), with sponsorship from nine other leading universities, including China Agricultural University, Zhejiang University, Jiangsu University, Zhejiang University of Technology, Northwest University, Nanchang University, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China [1]. The editorial board is composed of a professional and passionate team of top global experts on food science and technology from Algeria, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, UK, USA, Uzbekistan, and regions such as Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong, covering 27 countries and regions in total.

The scope of eFood aims to advance and disseminate knowledge of food science, and to promote and foster the knowledge into potential applications in areas such as food chemistry, food nutrition and food safety, food processing, sensory and consumer science, food toxicology, and so on.

eFood welcomes original research articles, comprehensive reviews, perspectives or correspondence on both experimental work and policy management in relation to the above-mentioned fields, by presenting original data and unique viewpoints. Our ultimate goal is to provide a platform for researchers, policy-makers in governments and industries to learn the latest findings and exchange ideas whenever and wherever possible.

Research in food science and technology is growing substantially and soon will need to meet the fundamental challenge of provision of food for all humans. The eFood journal has set to contribute to facilitate and advance this process by working with researchers and scientists around the world. Please come and join us!