1. Food authentication: Introduction, techniques and prospects 2. Food Fraud 3. Chromatographic methods 4. Mass Spectrometry in Food Authenticity and Traceability 5. Chemical Imaging in Food Authentication 6. Non-targeted fingerprinting approaches 7. DNA-based techniques 8. Omics-based technologies for food authentication and traceability 9. Proteomics for food authentication 10. Future challenges on the use of blockchain for food traceability analysis 11. Regulatory aspects 12. Metabolomic approaches