Dr. Smriti Chaturvedi is a post-doctoral candidate from the School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Canada. Her research focuses on synbiotic foods, probiotics and prebiotics, legume-based non-dairy food products, product optimization, and food safety. Dr. Snehasis Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor of Food Technology at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. He is a visiting scientist at Kansas State University, USA. His research area includes synbiotic foods, non-thermal and advanced thermal processing of foods, process optimization, kinetic modelling, shelf-life study, and sensory analysis. He is the academic editor for Journal of Food Processing and Preservation and Journal Food Biochemistry. He is also an editorial board member of the journal Applied Food Research.