Food and Fermentation Industries (F&FI) implements a double-blind peer review system to ensure originality, relevance, scientific significance, and readability.

Manuscripts that have been submitted to F&FI will be selected and assessed by the editorial office concerning whether the manuscript is free from plagiarism, and whether it fits the writing instructions and falls within the aims and scope of F&FI. If it is not corresponding with the authorship instructions, the manuscript will be returned directly to the author for revision and re-adjusted to the existing provisions. However, if the contents in the manuscript are not corresponding to the aims and scope of F&FI, or it fails the plagiarism detection, the manuscript will be immediately rejected and not continued at the next review stage by the editorial office.

After the authors revise the manuscript and are suitable with the F&FI authorship instructions, the manuscript will be continued to the peer-review process. At this stage, the manuscript will be distributed to the reviewer who is an expert in the same field. The identities of the authors are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. The author might recommend specific reviewers who are believed to be appropriate for peer review or suggest avoiding reviewers who have conflicts of interest. Decisions are usually made within 15 to 40 days from the day the peer-review process starts. The results of this peer review process will be divided into 4 decision categories, including:

1) Manuscript accepted without any revision (acceptance): The journal will publish the paper in its original form. This type of result is rare.
2) Manuscript accepted with revisions (acceptance with revisions):  The reviewers publish the review results, the authors need to revise the manuscript according to the reviewers' comments, and then the manuscript will be considered whether it is acceptable.
3) Manuscript rejected (rejection): Reviewers do not recommend texts for further consideration for publication purposes.