| Dr | Jerish Joyner | Janahar | Mississippi State University | United States | Innovative Research Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Pintu Kumar | Mandal | CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute | India | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Shaohua | You | The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital | China | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Hacene | MEDKOUR | MIVEGEC, IRD | France | Young Scientist Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Gang | Zhang | Hebei Agricultural University | China | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Sholpan | Abzhanova | Almaty Technological University | Kazakhstan | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Guangli | Liu | Anhui Medical University | China | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Hao | Yu | Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University | China | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Lorraine | Evangelista | University of California Irvine | United States | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Modarres | Dehghani | Iran University of science and Technology | Iran | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Haider | Mannan | Western Sydney University | Australia | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Mohammad | Hemmatinafar | Shiraz University | Iran | Nutritional Research Excellence Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Nafiseh | Nematshahi | Hakim Sabzevari University/Department of Biology | Iran | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Yaşar | ZENGİN | Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa/Hayat Kimya | Turkey | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Hemant | Soni | CARI, Jhansi, U.P. (under CCRAS, Delhi) | India | Best Researcher Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Elif | Kütahneci | Cappadocia University | Turkey | Innovative Food Product Development Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Li | Weixia | China Jiliang University | China | Food Packaging Technology Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | R. | Pandiselvam | ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute | India | Research Excellence Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Monica | Vazquez-Levin | CONICET-IBYME | Argentina | Research Excellence Award | foodscientists.org |
| Dr | Rongbo | Wang | Jiangsu Ocean University | China | Research Excellence Award | foodscientists.org |